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I stopped by today during my lunch at my local “loony Tunes” and suddenly stumbled upon a LYS reissue (via the Dante Production) of Golovanov’s 1948 Boris Godunov. (LYS 349-351)

I have mentioned this performance above. It is a studio recoding where Golovanov leads Bolshoy orchestra and chorus, only Tsar Boris sang not by Alexander Pirogov but by Mark Reizren. It is a famous performance. I have a few CD of it, from different companies and a few LF sets, including the original Russian pressing from begging of 50s. The fun part that this time the French folks did a phenomenal transfer and those CDs are way better sonically then even my LPs. The LYS looks like released the 3-CD box set in the end of the 90s. The booklet is very intelligent, I would say the booklet is superb; the sound quality is the best I have heard for this performance and the singers, the singers are as good as good as it could be among the Russians form the times when Russian singers still sounded like Russians and did not sound like they sing in back-translation from English….. 

The miserable French people deserver applauds…
Romy the Cat

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