The Kirov Orchestra has a venerable old concert hall not far from the Moscow River in St. Petersburg. And they were the ones to premiere Mussorgsky's opera Kovanshchina in 1886. So they have an ...

Mussorgsky's opera Khovansschina is based on a true story: There really was an uprising against Peter the Great, and the rebels were put down. What happened then is another story. We'll hear just the ...