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Leopold Stokowski's orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky was completed in 1939 and premiered later that year, on 17 November, by the Philadelphia Orchestra. [1] Mussorgsky's original 1874 composition was a suite for piano, however, the piece has gained most of its fame through the many orchestrations of it that have ...
The opening bars of Tushmalov's orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition. Tushmalov is most widely discussed today as the first person to have prepared an orchestral version of Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. [2] [1] Tushmalov's version sets an abridged version of the piece. It may have been completed as early ...
In Rimsky-Korsakov's version, connecting bars are written to make it possible to cut this scene. Mussorgsky later shortened this scene. 4. Intervention of Dosifey and Marfa's confession 13 February 1876 Mussorgsky later shortened this scene. 5. Shaklovity's aria 6 January 1876 6. Streltsy enter 30 May 1876 Orchestrated by Mussorgsky 7.
Jack Renner, engineer – Mussorgsky-Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition (Lorin Maazel conducting the Cleveland Orchestra) Klaus Heimann, engineer – Bartók: Concertos for Piano Nos. 1 and 2 (Claudio Abbado, conductor; Maurizio Pollini, piano) Isao Tomita, engineer – The Bermuda Triangle
Title Start End Notes Han of Iceland: 1856: 1856: Projected; to be based on the novel Han d'Islande (1823) by Victor Hugo: Oedipus in Athens: 1858: 1860: Unfinished; based on the tragedy Oedipus in Athens (1804) by Vladislav Ozerov; only one number survives—'Scene in the Temple: Chorus of the People'
It is through Rimsky-Korsakov's version that Night on Bald Mountain achieved lasting fame. Premiering in Saint Petersburg in 1886, the work became a concert favourite. Half a century later, the work obtained perhaps its greatest exposure through the Walt Disney animated film Fantasia (1940), featuring an arrangement by Leopold Stokowski, based on Rimsky-Korsakov's version.
Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) and Night on Bald Mountain (orch. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) with the Cleveland Orchestra (Telarc CD-80042) · Recorded 10/20/1978; Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, with Alec Clunes, narrator, with the French National Radio Orchestra (DG) · Recorded 1-2/1962
Benno Moiseiwitsch 3-CD set – Beethoven Piano sonata No. 21 / Schumann – Kreisleriana Op. 16 / Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition / Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat, Op. 73 / Rachmaninov – Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Op. 43 /Chopin – Ballade No. 3 in A flat, Op. 47 / Moiseiwitsch in Interview (SBT31509)