Yevgeny Nestorenko 1938-2021

[CallMePaul]

Sad to learn of the death earlier this month of one of the great Russian basses: https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...enko-1938-2021

He will be best remembered for the major bass parts in Russian opera, especially but by no means exclusively the title role in Musorgsky'sBoris Godunov, but he also sang a good deal of Italian opera and much else besides, as his discography shows: https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...eny-nesterenko

[LHC]

Sad to learn of the death earlier this month of one of the great Russian basses: https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...enko-1938-2021

He will be best remembered for the major bass parts in Russian opera, especially but by no means exclusively the title role in Musorgsky'sBoris Godunov, but he also sang a good deal of Italian opera and much else besides, as his discography shows: https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...eny-nesterenko

You might want to amend the thread title, as it suggests he died twenty years ago

[CallMePaul]

This seems to have been done!

[gurnemanz]

His Wiki says it was a short but severe bout of Covid. I think the Kondrashin/Moscow Phil Shostakovich 14 is the only recording of his I have. Listened again to remind myself. His dark resonant bass is well suited to these death-themed movements .