Mussorgsky

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MUSSORGSKY, MODEST PETROVICH (1839 - 1881)

Mussorgsky was one of the five Russian nationalist composers, roughly grouped under the influence of the unreliable Balakirev. Initially an army officer and later, intermittently, a civil servant, Mussorgsky left much unfinished at his death in 1881, nevertheless his influence on composers such as Janácek was considerable, not least in the association he found between speech intonations and rhythms and melody. Rimsky-Korsakov, a musician who had acquired a more conventional technique of orchestration and composition, revised and completed a number of Mussorgsky's works, versions which now may seem inferior to the innovative original compositions as Mussorgsky conceived them.

Operas
The greatest of Mussorgsky's creations was the opera Boris Godunov, based on Pushkin and Karamazin, with a thoroughly Russian historical subject. He completed the first version in 1869 and a second version in the 1870s, but it was Rimsky-Korsakov's version that was first performed outside Russia. The opera provides an important part for a bass in the rôle of Boris. Other operas by Mussorgsky include Khovanshchina, completed and orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov. A later version by Shostakovich restores more of the original text. The opera Sorochintsy Fair, after Gogol, completed by Lyadov and others, includes the orchestral favourite Night on the Bare Mountain, an orchestral witches' sabbath.

Piano Music

Mussorgsky's 1874 suite Pictures at an Exhibition, a tribute to the versatile artist Hartman, has proved the most popular of all the composer's works, both in its original version for piano and in colourful orchestral versions, of which that by Maurice Ravel has proved the most generally acceptable. Linked by Promenades for the visitor to the exhibition, Mussorgsky represents in music a varied collection, from the Market of Limoges and the Catacombs to the final Great Gate of Kiev, a monumental translation into music of an architectural design for a triumphal gateway.

Vocal Music
Mussorgsky wrote a number of choral works and songs, many of the latter of considerable interest, including the group The Nursery. The Song of the Flea, based on Goethe's Mephistophelean song in Faust, is a bass favourite.

Mussorgsky is one of my favorite composers, especialy because "Night on a Bald Mountain" and "Pictures at an Exhibition" of course.
Here I wil post my collection of the "Pictures" and if anybody has a disc I don't have, pls feel free to post here.

This is my wishlist:
Performer ~ Composer ~ Titles
1. Quadriga Bassoon Ensemble & Dag Jenssen ~ Allan Stephenson - Astor Piazolla - Modest Mussorgsky - Oscar Peterson ~ Divertimento; Pictures at an Exhibition; Tango Suite, March Past
2. Il Quintetto Bibienna ~ Mussorgsky ~ Pictures at an Exhibition
3. Peng Xiuwen (EMI EMGS-6135) ~ Mussorgsky ~ Pictures at an Exhibition

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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Ivo Pogorelic, piano

Album : Pictures at an Exhibition
Composer(s) : Moussorgsky
Performer : Ivo Pogorelic
Release date : 1997
Label : Deutsche Grammophon
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 75,2 MB
Total time : 01:01:49

Tracks:
01. Pictures at an Exhibition – Promenade [1:42]
02. Pictures at an Exhibition - I. Gnomus [2:58]
03. Pictures at an Exhibition – Promenade [1:02]
04. Pictures at an Exhibition - II. Il vecchio castello [5:29]
05. Pictures at an Exhibition – Promenade [0:35]
06. Pictures at an Exhibition - III. Les Tuileries [1:06]
07. Pictures at an Exhibition - IV. Bydlo [4:19]
08. Pictures at an Exhibition – Promenade [1:02]
09. Pictures at an Exhibition - V. Ballet des poussins dans leur coque [1:46]
10. Pictures at an Exhibition - VI. Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle [2:45]
11. Pictures at an Exhibition – Promenade [1:43]
12. Pictures at an Exhibition - VII. Limoges - le marché [1:22]
13. Pictures at an Exhibition - VIII. Catacombae- Sepulcrum romanum [2:18]
14. Pictures at an Exhibition - Con mortuis in lingua mortua [3:54]
15. Pictures at an Exhibition - IX. La Cabane sur des pattes de poule [4:10]
16. Pictures at an Exhibition - X. La Porte des Bohatyrs de Kiev [6:07]
17. Valses nobles et sentimentales - I. Modéré - très franc [1:39]
18. Valses nobles et sentimentales - II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense [3:00]
19. Valses nobles et sentimentales - III. Modéré [2:45]
20. Valses nobles et sentimentales - IV. Assez animé [1:33]
21. Valses nobles et sentimentales - V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime [2:03]
22. Valses nobles et sentimentales - VI. Vif [0:30]
23. Valses nobles et sentimentales - VII. Moins vif []3:24]
24. Valses nobles et sentimentales - VIII. Epilogue- Lent [4:37]

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From Amazon.com
Ivo Pogorelich is determined to leave his personal imprint on every note he plays. Here, however, his ideas are less unconventional than they are way off base. The pianist takes 42 minutes to get through Pictures at an Exhibition, compared to the standard half hour, and adds five extra minutes to most performances of the Ravel. This is because Pogorelich's frequent lingerings and expansions of phrase are rarely counterbalanced with a steady, referential pulse. Subsequently, the music swoons into disconnected phrases and dies on the vine. Seek out Sviatoslav Richter's more stylish--yet every bit as individualistic--Mussorgsky, or Artur Rubinstein's dashing, emotionally healthy Ravel. Keyboard fanciers, however, will understandably wish to savor Pogorelich's remarkable pianism.
--Jed Distler

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Mussorgsky, Modest: Pictures at an Exhibition, Night on Bald Mountain
Lorin Maazel – The Cleveland Orchestra

Artist: Lorin Maazel, The Cleveland Orchestra
CD title: Pictures at an Exhibition
Release date: 1979
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Classical
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 192 Kbit/s
Time: 00:40:49
Total size: 52,2 MB

Tracks:
01. Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain [00:10:28]
02. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition [00:30:20]

Comments:
The CD issue of Telarc's famous Mussorgsky coupling deserves a special accolade. It represents the high-water mark of this small american company's extraordinarily confident creation of a highly-spectacular and yet natural orchestral balance, with the use of simple microphone techniques. Jack Renner, the company's President, was well aware of his debt to the late Bob Fine of Mercury, responsible for the pioneering series of mono recordings of the fifties and stereo recordings of the sixties, using at first one and then two or three microphones; also the impressive late fifties RCA stereo recordings achieved with similar techniques, recording Reiner in Chicago and Munch in Boston. Yet the Telarc digital recordings, following in this same tradition achieved new standards, especially in the glowing acoustic of Severance Hall, Cleveland. The series made with the Cleveland Symphonic Winds under Fennell and the full Cleveland Orchestra under Maazel create a vivid impression of realism, of the full panoply of wind or orchestral tone spread out in a natural perspective before the listener, the only quirk of balance being an occasionally over-insistent bass drum.
The coupling of Pictures and Night on the Bare Mountain dates from 1979 (the year of Decca's digital LP Debut with Boskovsky's New Year Strauss family concert) but is in my view in advance of anything that the multi-national companies were achieving digitally at that time. The sonic splendour of the closing picture, ''The Great Gate of Kiev'', with brass and strings converging in a glorious amplitude of tone, capped by the cymbals, is one of the most exciting climaxes I have heard on a disc. It richness is anticipated at the very beginning of Night on the Bare Mountain (it comes first) which is arresting from the opening bars. Both performances are fine ones . . . . Abbado (DG) and especially Solti on Decca (where the clarity is clinical) offer rather sharper detail, but the Telarc climaxes are special.
-- Ivan March, Gramophone

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Thank you very very very much for sharing music. Your posts are great, I am from Turkey and i love them.
Note: "Exhibit ion" there is a blank if someone copies and pastes it, rapidsh gives "file not found", wrong actualy (file exist_without blank)

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Thanx necmikaya, I corrected the link

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Leopold Stokowski
Mussorgsky, Scriabin, Stravinsky

Artist: Leopold Stokowski
CD title: Mussorgsky/Scriabin/Stravinsky
Release date: 1996
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Classical
Time: 01:12:29
Total size: 100 MB @VBR mp3, 377 MB @FLAC

Tracks:
01. Mussorgsky- Pictures At An Exhibition , Promenade; Gnome.mp3 4:24
02. Mussorgsky- Pictures At An Exhibition , Promenade; The Old Castle.mp3 4:35
03. Mussorgsky- Pictures At An Exhibition , Bydlo.mp3 1:57
04. Mussorgsky- Pictures At An Exhibition , Promenade; Ballet Of The Unhatch ed Chicks.mp3 2:12
05. Mussorgsky- Pictures At An Exhibition , Samuel Goldenberg And Schmuyle.mp3 2:39
06. Mussorgsky- Pictures At An Exhibition , Catacombs.mp3 3:47
07. Mussorgsky- Pictures At An Exhibition , The Hut On Fowl's Legs.mp3 2:46
08. Mussorgsky- Pictures At An Exhibition , The Great Gate Of Kiev.mp3 4:54
09. Scriabin , Le Poeme De L'extase, Op. 54.mp3 19:09
10. Stravinsky , Pastorale.mp3 3:46
11. Stravinsky- The Firebird- Suite , Introduction.mp3 3:29
12. Stravinsky- The Firebird- Suite , Dance Of The Firebird.mp3 1:09
13. Stravinsky- The Firebird- Suite , Round Dance Of The Princesses.mp3 5:42
14. Stravinsky- The Firebird- Suite , Infernal Dance Of King Kastchei.mp3 4:31
15. Stravinsky- The Firebird- Suite , Lullaby.mp3 3:45
16. Stravinsky- The Firebird- Suite , Finale.mp3 3:39

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Background information:
Recorded:
Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, New Philharmonia Orchestra, September 1965
Scriabin, Le Poème de l'extase, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, June 1972
Stravinsky, Pastorale, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, June 1969
Stravinsky, The Firebird Suite, London Symphony Orchestra, June 1967

London/Decca Phase 4 Stereo CD, 1996

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Stokowski prepared his own version of Pictures at an Exhibition because he thought Ravel’s standard orchestration sounded too French. Well, Stoky’s is certainly, again, darker and heavier, but it also betrays his impatience, well known from his Bach transcriptions, with holding a scoring beyond a single phrase, or even half-phrase. In other words, the orchestration is self-conscious in its obsessive variety. ... Note that Stokowski left out the two most French movements, “Tuileries” and “Limoges,” and preferred an exceptionally fast tempo for “Bydlo,” whipping the oxcart along at sports-car speeds.
Fanfare

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Kurt Mazur, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Mussorgsky /Gortchakov- Pictures at an Exhibition
Prokofiev – Symphone Classique

Artist: Kurt Mazur, London Philharmonic Orchestra
CD title: Pictures at an Exhibition, "Classical Symphony" No. 1 in D Major
Release date: 1991
Label : Teldec
Catalog #: 22292-44941-2
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Classical
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 256 Kbit
Time: 00:48:02

Tracklisting:
Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition
01 - Promenade.mp3 1:24
02 - Gnomus.mp3 2:39
03 - Promenade.mp3 0:48
04 - The Old Castle.mp3 4:29
05 - Promenade.mp3 0:27
06 - Tuileries.mp3 1:03
07 - Bydlo.mp3 3:00
08 - Promenade.mp3 0:42
09 - Ballet of the Unhatched Chickens.mp3 1:21
10 - Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle.mp3 2:19
11 - Promenade.mp3 1:16
12 - Limoges.mp3 1:29
13 - Catacombae. Sepulchrum romanum.mp3 1:55
14 - Cum mortuis in lingua mortua.mp3 1:55
15 - The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba-Yaga).mp3 3:54
16 - The Great Gate of Kiev.mp3 5:03
Prokofiev – Symphony No. 1
17 - I.Allegro.mp3 4:07
18 - II. Larghetto.mp3 4:10
19 - III. Gavotte- Non troppo allegro.mp3 1:43
20 - IV. Finale- Molto vivace.mp3 4:09

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oh thx...the instrumentals are great...

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Kazuhito Yamashita
Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
The Firebird Suite (Stravinsky)

Artist: Kazuhito Yamashita
CD title: Pictures at an Exhibition
Release date: 1999
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Classical
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 224 Kbit
Time: 00:55:11
Total size: 89 MB

Tracks:
Pictures at an Exhibition
1. I Promenade ; Gnomes [00:04:17]
2. II Promenade ; Il Vecchio Castello [00:05:59]
3. III Promenade ; The Tuileries [00:01:26]
4. IV Bydlo [00:02:58]
5. V Promenade ; Ballet of the Little Chickens [00:02:10]
6. VI Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle [00:02:29]
7. VII A Market Place in Limoges [00:01:17]
8. VIII Catacombae ; Con mortuis in lingua mortua [00:05:08]
9. IX The Hut of Baba-Yaga [00:03:04]
10. X The Bahatyr Gate of Kiev [00:06:59]
The Firebird Suite
11. I Introduction [00:03:25]
12. II The Firebird and It's Dance [00:00:20]
13. III Variations of the Firebird [00:01:16]
14. IV The Round of the Princesses [00:04:11]
15. V Infernal Dance of King Kastchei [00:04:05]
16. VI Lullaby [00:02:56]
17. VII Finale [00:03:01]

Background information:
Just as Franz Liszt created new repertoire and technique for the piano by transcribing Symphonies and Operas and then developing new techniques with which to play them, Kazuhito Yamashita took a similar path in the early 1980's and so revolutionised the world of possibilities on the guitar.

By transcribing well known pieces of orchestral music for solo guitar he has encouraged a trend which could make classical guitar much more appealing and accessible to concert programmers and the general concert going audience.

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Byron Janis Plays Moussorgsky
Pictures At An Exhibition

Release Date: 09/20/1994
Label: Mercury Living Presence
Catalog #: 434346
Composer: Modest Mussorgsky, Frédéric Chopin
Performer: Byron Janis
Conductor: Antal Doráti
Orchestra/Ensemble:[/b] Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Number of Discs: 1
Recorded in: Stereo
Length: 01:06:11

Individual Track Details:

1. Pictures at an exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
Performer: Byron Janis (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1874; Russia
Date of Recording: 09/1961
Venue: Ballroom Studio A, Fine Recording, NY
Length: 29 Minutes 35 Secs.

2. Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 25: no 3 in F major by Frédéric Chopin
Performer: Byron Janis (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1836; Paris, France
Date of Recording: 06/07/1962
Venue: Moscow, Russia
Length: 1 Minutes 37 Secs.

3. Waltzes (3) for Piano, Op. 34: no 2 in A minor, B 64 by Frédéric Chopin
Performer: Byron Janis (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1831; Poland
Date of Recording: 06/07/1962
Venue: Moscow, Russia
Length: 4 Minutes 50 Secs.

4. Pictures at an exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
Conductor: Antal Doráti
Orchestra/Ensemble: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1874; Russia
Date of Recording: 04/21/1959
Venue: Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN
Length: 29 Minutes 7 Secs.
Notes: Arranger: Maurice Ravel.

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Jean Guillou, Organ
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition
Stravinsky – Three Dances from Petrouchka

Album : Pictures at an Exhibition
Composer(s) : Mussorgsky, Stravinsky
Performer : Jean Guillou
Release date : 1988
Label : Dorian
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Classical
Total size : 71,8 MB
Total time : 00:53:01

Individual track details :
Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition
1. Promenade
2. Gnomus
3. Promenade
4. Il Vecchio Castello (The Ancient Castle)
5. Promenade
6. Tuileries (Argument Among the Children)
7. Bydlo (A Polish Oxcart)
8. Promenade
9. Ballet of the Chicks in their Shells
10. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
11. Promenade
12. The Market Place at Limoges
13. Catacombae. Sepulcrum Romanum (Catacombs - Roman Sepulchre); Cum moruis in lingua mortua (Among the
14. Baba Yaga, The Hut on Fowl's Legs
15. The Great Gate at Kiev
Stravinsky – Three Dances from Petrouchka
16. Danse Russe
17. Chez Petrouchka
18. Le Semaine Grasse (Shrovetide Week)

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Transcibed and Performed by JEAN GUILLOU, ORGAN
Recorded at the Great Kleuker-Steinmeyer organ of the Tonhalle, Zürich

In composing these musical Pictures, Mussorgsky not only acheived a true synesthetic phenomenon, but also created a completely original sonic architecture, unprecedented and quite independant of any previous mode of musical expression. This uniqueness stems primarily from the motifs used to represent the Pictures which, like the various models that serve as a painter's subjects, are incongruously dissimilar and remain perpetually estranged from one another by virtue of their diversity, yet are linked by the artist's stylistic language. Also in response to the logical necessity to unify the work as a whole, Mussorgsky created a series of interludes entitled "Promenades", the theme of which pervades the entirety of the compositions.
- Jean Guillou - Translated by Lucien Gerber

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Alfredo Corral, piano (Argentina)
Obras rusas para piano
Tchaikowski – The Seasons Op. 37bis
Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition

Artist: Alfredo Corral
CD title: Obras rusas para piano
Release date: 2006
Genre: Classical
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 320 Kbit
Time: 01:13:41

Tracklisting:
Tchaikowsky - The Seasons (Op. 37bis)
01. January. By The Fireside, CW 124 (Januar. Am Kamin)
02. February. Shrovetide, CW 125 (Februar. Karneval)
03. March. The Lark's Song, CW 126 (Marz. Lied Der Lerche)
04. April. The Snowdrop Flower, CW 127 (April. Das Schneeglockchen)
05. May. White Nights, CW 128 (Mai Weisse Nachte)
06.J une. Barcarole, CW 129 (Juni. Barkarole)
07. July. The Reaper's Song, CW 130 (Juli. Lied Des Schnitters)
08. August, The Harvest (Scherzo), CW 131 (August. Sie Ernte (Scherzo))
09. September. The Hunt, CW 132 (September. Die Jagd)
10. October. Autumn Song, CW 133 (Oktober. Herbstlied)
11. November. Troika Ride, CW134 (November. Auf Der Troika)
12. December. Christmas. CW 135 (Dezember. Weihnachtszeit)
Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition
13. Promenade
14. Gnomus - Promenade
15. Il vecchio castello - Promenade
16. Les Tuileries
17. Bydlo - Promenade
18. Ballet Of The Unhatched Chicks
19. Samuel Goldberg und Schmuyle
20. Promenade
21. Limoges - le marché
22. Catacombae
23. Promenade-Cum Mortius in lingua mortua
24. Baba Yaga
25. The Great Gate Of Kiev

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Orch. Vladimir Ashkenazy
Original version/Orchestral version

Artist: Vladimir Ashkenazy, Philharmonia Orchestra
CD title: Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition
Release date: 1986
Label : Decca
Catalog #: 414 386-2
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Classical
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 192-320 Kbit
Time: 01:06:36

Tracklisting: Pictures At An Exhibition - Original Piano Version
1. Promenade - Gnomus (4:06)
2. Promenade - Il Vecchio Castello (5:11)
3. Promenade - Tuileries - Bydlo (3:38)
4. Promenade - Ballet Of The Unhatched Chicks - Samuel Goldenberg And Schmuyle (4:12)
5. Promenade - Limoges: Le Marché - Catacombae Cum Mortuis In Lingua Mortua (6:36)
6. The Hut On Hen's Legs (Baba Yaga) - The Great Gate Of Kiev (8:28)
Pictures At An Exhibition - Orchestration By Vladimir Ashkenazy
7. Promenade - Gnomus (4:02)
8. Promenade - Il Vecchio Castello (5:24)
9. Promenade - Tuileries - Bydlo (3:54)
10. Promenade - Ballet Of The Unhatched Chicks - Samuel Goldenberg And Schmuyle (4:33)
11. Promenade - Limoges: Le Marché - Catacombae Cum Mortuis In Lingua Mortua (7:03)
12. The Hut On Hen's Legs (Baba Yaga) - The Great Gate Of Kiev (9:09)

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