Mark Reizen- Dosifey’s aria from Khovanshchina (1953 rec.)

Mark Reizen (1895-1992) Since my previous video upload of Dosifey’s aria (from the 1959 Mosfilm “Khovanshchina“) was disfigured by excruciating cuts, I thought that I might remedy the situation by posting an alternate Reizen performance of the aria in its entirety (this time with the Rimsky-Korsakoff orchestration). Recorded in 1953, he is accompanied here by the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, led by Vassiliy Nebolsin. Needless to say, Reizen’s Dosifey was without peer in the 1940’s and 50’s, and rema