Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (for Orchestra & Solo Piano)

Tracklist below. Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play): https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Mus... More Information: https://www.brilliantclassics.com/art... Brilliant Classics Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/brillia... Brilliant Classics Facebook:   / brilliantclassics   Artist: Gewandhausorchester Leizig, Igor Markevitch (conductor), Alexander Warenberg (piano) The drunken sot who glares out at us from Ilya Repin’s celebrated portrait looks more like a tramp than a composer, and Mussorgsky’s music has a similarly uncompromising expressive power, music that seems to work despite rather than because of itself. Pianists have wrestled with the unpianistic corners of his most famous work since he composed it in 1874 in memory of his friend, the painter Viktor Hartmann, who had died the previous year. Mussorgsky portrayed some of Hartmann's pictures in music when they were displayed at an exhibition in Saint Petersburg. The cycle of ten individual paintings is linked by the famous ‘promenade’, symbolizing the viewer of the pictures wandering through the exhibition. Hartmann’s bold and puzzling vignettes find their perfect analogue in Mussorgsky’s pianistic reimagining, but fellow composers could hardly leave the orchestral potential of this often‐awkward music alone. Ravel wasn’t the first to mix his orchestral palette with Mussorgsky’s colours, but his version has justly stood the test of time, and stands alone for its sensitivity to the pungent, folkloristic flavour of the original. Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” is one of the most famous and most frequently performed romantic piano cycles of the entire repertoire. It contains colourful, highly original and gripping musical depictions of a series of painting by Mussorgsky’s friend Hartmann. This release offers both the original piano version and the Ravel orchestration, filled up with the orchestral “A Night on Bare Mountain” and the more modest, but no less impressive piano cycle by Tchaikovsky: The Seasons. 00:00:00 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 1 00:01:29 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 1, Gnomus 00:04:04 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 2 00:05:02 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 2, Il vecchio castello 00:08:38 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 3 00:09:06 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 3, Tuileries 00:10:21 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 4, Bydlo 00:13:21 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 4 00:14:06 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 5, Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks 00:15:24 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 6, Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle 00:18:06 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 7, Limoges. The Market 00:19:29 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 8, Catacombae. Sepulcrum romanum – Con mortuis in lingua mortua 00:23:22 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 9, The Hut on Fowl’s Legs 00:27:08 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 10, The Great Gate of Kiev 00:32:37 Night on Bare Mountain 00:43:01 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 1 - No. 1, Gnomus 00:46:58 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 2 - No. 2, Il vecchio castello 00:52:07 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 3 - No. 3, Tuileries 00:53:38 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 4, Bydlo 00:56:49 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 4 - No. 5, Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks 00:58:45 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 6, Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle 01:00:38 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 5 - No. 7, Limoges. The Market 01:03:38 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 8, Catacombae. Sepulcrum romanum - Con mortuis in lingua mortua 01:07:17 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 9, The Hut on Fowl’s Legs 01:10:22 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 10, The Great Gate of Kiev 01:15:57 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 1, January. By the Fireside 01:20:47 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 2, February. Shrovetide Festival 01:23:41 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 3, March. Song of the Lark 01:25:21 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 4, April. Snowdrop 01:27:30 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 5, May. White Nights 01:31:44 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 6, June. Barcarolle 01:35:27 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 7, July. Song of the Reaper 01:37:10 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 8, August. Harvest 01:40:18 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 9, September. The Hunt 01:43:14 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 10, October. Autumn Song 01:46:38 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 11, November. Troika 01:49:16 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 12, December. Yuletide