Glazunov

Although much of the material composed or orchestrated by Glazunov and Rimsky-Korsakov is retained, there are additions culled from the unpublished vocal score by Pavel Lamm, orchestrated and linked by Faliek.

A review in Gramophone highlights how the newly added monologue "helps to give a weighty focus to Act 3, otherwise a phenomenal feat of reconstruction on Glazunov's part, but somehow insubstantial".

Both Glazunov and I were pleased with our orchestration and additions.

Despite the skill and efforts of editors Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov, the opera is still episodic and dramatically static, a problem of which the composer himself was aware when he embarked on composition (see quote above in "Composition History").

Fortunately, the option of omitting the fine overture, also known to have been composed by Glazunov, is seldom considered.

Mussorgsky's renditions, according to Glazunov, were brilliant and powerful—qualities Shostakovich felt did not come through in the orchestration of much of Boris.

The following statement by Glazunov himself clarifies the matter: The overture was composed by me roughly according to Borodin's plan.

The traditional grouping presented here is that of the Rimsky-Korsakov-Glazunov edition.

They added many fragments by Borodin that Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov had omitted, basing their work on many decades of musicological research.