Lamm stated that because of the extremely chaotic state of Borodin's manuscripts, a modern alternative to Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov's edition would be extremely difficult to complete.
Lam declarou que debido ao estado de caos extremo que reinaba nos manuscritos de Borodin, realizar na actualidade un intento ao estilo de Rimskii-Korsakov e Glazunov sería sumamente difícil de completar.