Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) / Night on the Bare Mountain / Khovanshchina / etc

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MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) / Night on the Bare Mountain / Khovanshchina / etc
Russian National Orchestra / Carlo Ponti

[ Pentatone SACD / SACD ]

Release Date: Thursday 20 November 2008

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Modest Mussorgsky owes his reputation to three compositions in particular: his opera Boris Godunov, his orchestral fantasy Night on the Bare Mountain and his descriptive collection of solo piano pieces entitled Pictures at an Exhibition.

Hybrid/SACD - playable on all compact disc players

Modest Mussorgsky owes his reputation to three compositions in particular: his opera Boris Godunov, his orchestral fantasy Night on the Bare Mountain and his descriptive collection of solo piano pieces entitled Pictures at an Exhibition. It is indeed an intriguing fact that these works achieved worldwide fame not in their original form, but in versions crafted by other composers. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov created his own orchestrations of Boris Godunov and Night on the Bare Mountain, Anatoly Liadov arranged much of the unfinished opera The Sorochinsky Fair, and Maurice Ravel gave to orchestral posterity his epic arrangement of Pictures at an Exhibition.

Tracks:

Pictures at an Exhibition Tableaux d'une exposition
(orchestrated by Maurice Ravel)

Night on the Bare Mountain
(arranged and orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)

The Sorochinsky Fair
Introduction
(orchestrated by Anatoly Liadov)

Khovanshchina
(orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
1. Prelude (Dawn on the Moscow River)
2. Dance of the Persian Slave Girls