Mussorgsky Night on the Bare Mountain ( Choral Version) Rozhdestvensky conducts

This version of A Night on the Bare Mountain comes from Mussorgsky s unfinished opera The Fair at Sorochyntsi (or Sorochintsy Fair ). In the opera, it was intended as a dream sequence which incorporated parts for a solo baritone (sung here by David Wilson Johnson) and chorus (the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus). This performance comes from a Proms concert given in the Royal Albert Hall in 1981. It is sung in English, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky. RimskyKorsa