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Rachel Koblyakov

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Golovanov's furious performance of the roaring, rampaging beast, the ferocious Borodin! The legendary Russian conductor Nikolai Golovanov (1891-1953), the charismatic Russian conductor opposite Mravinsky and known for his intense and explosive performances, has been mastered and released by ALTUS! The performance is a brain-burning, raging performance of unprecedented power produced by the unusual presence of the conductor. This Borodin is a well-known masterpiece. The orchestra goes berserk, the intensity of the IJN and the singing is so intense that it almost tears you apart, and the music is so intense that you do not feel the limits of what mankind is capable of expressing. Golovanov is in high spirits from the very beginning of the theme, singing "Dadda dadda dadda dadda dadda..." as if he were shouting in a wild voice. The heaven-shattering high tension of the last movement is a thing of the past. This is a one-of-a-kind superb performance in which all possible energy is poured into the performance from beginning to end. Borodin's Symphony No. 2 is the most intense and intense of Golovanov's recorded legacy. The incredibly intense ritardando at the end of the first movement, along with Mengelberg's arm-breaking ritardando at the end of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, are probably the two most powerful ritardandos ever recorded on record.The fourth movement is also a tremendous orgy of sonic explosions and intense Russian emotion. If Golovanov's was the cry of a raging beast, the other conductors were, at best, the baying of a bush dog." (From the commentary by Naoya Hirabayashi) King International