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. Rimsky-Korsa