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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 ...
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 ...
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
Mussorgsky : Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel), conducted by Valery Gergiev, also recorded with André Previn, Gustavo Dudamel; Orff : Carmina Burana, conducted by André Previn; Prokofiev : Peter and the Wolf, with Hermione Gingold, conducted by Karl Böhm; Rimsky-Korsakov : Scheherazade, conducted by Seiji Ozawa, also conducted by André ...
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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