Description
Tomita – Pictures At An Exhibition / BMG Classics Audio CD 1991 / GD60576
UPC 0035626057626
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 praised for its emotional orchestration and is widely considered one of the greatest orchestral works ever written.
| Label: | BMG Classics – GD60576 |
|---|---|
| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
1991 |
| Genre: | Electronic |
| Style: | Modern Classical, Ambient |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Promenade | 1:31 | |
| 2 | The Gnome | 3:14 | |
| 3 | Promenade | 1:01 | |
| 4 | The Old Castle | 5:19 | |
| 5 | Promenade | 0:33 | |
| 6 | Tuileries | 0:54 | |
| 7 | Bydlo | 3:18 | |
| 8 | Promenade | 0:57 | |
| 9 | Ballet Of The Chicks In Their Shells |
1:06 | |
| 10 | The Two Jews | 3:05 | |
| 11 | Limoges: Catacombs | 3:52 | |
| 12 | Cum Mortuis In Lingua Mortua | 2:10 | |
| 13 | Baba Yaga (Hut On Fowl's Legs) | 3:44 | |
| 14 | Great Gate Of Kiev | 6:21 |
- Art Direction – J. J. Stelmach
- Composed By [Original] – Modest Mussorgsky
- Cover [bas-relief] – Gene Szafran
- Engineer – Ed Begley
- Producer – Plasma Music, Inc.
