Dmitri Hvorostovsky; “SONGS AND DANCES OF DEATH“; Modest Mussorgsky

This channel is the re-establishment of previous channels that have been sadly terminated. ================ Dmitri Hvorostovsky--baritone Valery Gergiev--conductor Kirov Orchestra St Peteersburg 1992 ===================== “Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky (Russian: Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович Хворосто́вский, pronounced [xvərɐˈstofskʲɪj]; 16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017) was a Russian operatic baritone. Hvorostovsky was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia during a time when the city was mostly closed to foreigners. An only child, he was raised mostly by his grandmother and a grandfather who, according to Dmitri, was a war veteran suffering from alcoholism.[1] His father, an engineer, and his mother, a gynecologist, both had extremely time-consuming careers and were often only around on the weekends and holidays.[2] Career Hvorostovsky came to international prominence in 1989 when he won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competiti