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Pictures at an Exhibition [a] 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.
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 ...
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.
Ravel made orchestral versions of piano works by Schumann, Chabrier, Debussy and Mussorgsky's piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. Orchestral versions of the last by Mikhail Tushmalov, Sir Henry Wood and Leo Funtek predated Ravel's 1922 version, and many more have been made since, but Ravel's remains the best known. [216]
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 ...
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) Borodin Symphony no 2/Polovtsian Dances Rachmaninov Symphony no 2/Vocalise/Piano ConcertonNo 2 Rhapsody On A Theme By Paganini/Symphonic Dances Shostakovich Symphony nos 1, 4, 10, 14 Prokofiev Symphony No 5/Scythian Suite/Piano Concerto no 1 Gubaidulina Zeitesstalten (excerpt)
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Cleveland Orchestra: Mussorgsky. Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) / Night on the Bare Mountain; Christoph von Dohnányi: Teldec: Ravel. Boléro / La valse / Miroirs: Alborada del gracioso / Daphnis et Chloé Suite no 2; Christoph von Dohnányi: 1989 & 1991 Teldec: Schumann: The Symphonies (2-CD set) Christoph von Dohnányi: Decca: Smetana