Description
Moussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition, Night On Bald Mountain, Introduction To Khovanshchina - Yoel Levi, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra / Telarc Audio CD 1991 / CD-80296
UPC 089408029622
Pictures at an Exhibition is a piano suite in ten movements, plus a recurring and varied Promenade theme, written in 1874 by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. It is a musical depiction of a tour of an exhibition of works by architect and painter Viktor Hartmann put on at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, following his sudden death in the previous year. Each movement of the suite is based on an individual work, some of which are lost.
The composition has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists, and became widely known from orchestrations and arrangements produced by other composers and contemporary musicians, with Maurice Ravel's 1922 adaptation for orchestra being the most recorded and performed. The suite, particularly the final movement, "The Bogatyr Gates", is widely considered one of Mussorgsky's greatest works.
| Label: | Telarc – CD-80296 |
|---|---|
| Format: |
CD
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| Country: | US |
| Released: |
1991 |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Romantic |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Night On Bald Mountain | 11:01 | |
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Pictures At An Exhibition |
(33:12) |
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| 2.1 | Promenade | 1:38 | |
| 2.2 | I. Gnomus (The Gnome) | 2:32 | |
| 2.3 | Promenade | 0:54 | |
| 2.4 | II. Il Vecchio Castello (The Old Castle) | 4:17 | |
| 2.5 | Promenade | 0:29 | |
| 2.6 | III. Tuileries | 1:06 | |
| 2.7 | IV. Bydlo | 2:48 | |
| 2.8 | Promenade | 0:52 | |
| 2.9 | V. Ballet Des Poussins Dans Leurs Coques (Ballet Of The Chicks In Their Shells) | 1:14 | |
| 2.10 | VI. Samuel Goldenberg Et Schmuyle | 2:18 | |
| 2.11 | VII. Limoges. Le Marché (The Marketplace At Limoges) | 1:20 | |
| 2.12 | VIII. Catacombe. Sepulchrum Romanum (Catacombs, Roman Tombs) | 1:57 | |
| 2.13 | Cum Mortuis In Lingua Mortua (With The Dead In A Dead Language) | 2:15 | |
| 2.14 | IX. La Cabane Sur Des Pattes De Poule (The Hut On Fowl's Legs) | 3:33 | |
| 2.15 | X. La Grande Porte De Kiev (The Great Gate Of Kiev) | 5:47 | |
| 3 | Introduction To Khovanshchina (Dawn On The Moscow River) | 5:47 |
- Art Direction – Ray Kirschensteiner
- Composed By – Modest Moussorgsky
- Conductor – Yoel Levi
- Design [Cover] – Anilda Carrasquillo
- Engineer [Recording] – Michael Bishop
- Illustration [Cover] – Karen Kluglein
- Liner Notes [Translated By] – Gila Fox, Patricia Dussaux
- Orchestra – Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
- Orchestrated By – Ravel (tracks: 2), Rimsky-Korsakov (tracks: 1)
- Producer [Recording] – Robert Woods (2)
- Supervised By [Production] – Elaine Martone
