Nikolai Golovanov

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Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov ( [o.s. 9] 21 January 1891 – 28 August 1953) was a Soviet conductor and composer. He conducted the premiere performances of a number of works, among them Nikolai Myaskovsky's sixth symphony in May 1924, and recorded operas and concert works by Glazunov, Mussorgsky and Liszt among others. Golovanov held some of the highest musical positions in the USSR, including an extensive association with the Bolshoi Opera. In her autobiography, Galina Vishnevskaya terms him the theater's chief conductor, and tells of his dismissal from the Bolshoi and his death - which she attributed to the humiliation of the experience of losing this position. It has been reported that Golovanov's firing was the result of Stalin's displeasure at Golovanov's having tried to use a Jewish singer, Mark Reizen, in the role of Tsar Boris Godunov in his recording of Mussorgsky's opera. Golovanov actually did record the opera with Reizen as Boris, but later remade Reizen's part with another Boris, Alexander Pirogov. Golovanov's recorded output was substantial and quite individual in interpretive approach. In his discography we find all but one of the Liszt tone poems, the complete Scriabin symphonies and Piano Concerto, Tchaikovsky's Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6, as well as shorter works, Beethoven's 1st Symphony, Violin Concerto and Triple Concerto, Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade" and his operas "Sadko" and "Christmas Eve," Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov" and "Pictures at an Exhibition,

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Musica Sacra - DE MARIA VIRGINE (Russian-Orthodox and European Sacred Choral Music)

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Liszt Symphonic Poems CD 1

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Ancient Echoes

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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Glazunov: Ballade in F Major - Balakirev: Tamara

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Liszt Symphonic Poems CD 2

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Mussorgsky Pictures, Rimsky Coq d'or Suite

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Sadko

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Requiem (Moscow 1951)

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Liszt Symphonic Poems Cd 3

Grieg: Peer Gynt

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Golovanov conducts Rimsky-Korsakov; Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky & Scriabin

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Tchaikkovsky 1812 Overture

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