Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhbition, Pictures from the Crimea | Signum SIGCD2095

Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhbition, Pictures from the Crimea

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Label: Signum

Cat No: SIGCD2095

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 10th July 2020

Contents

Artists

Tamas Ungar (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor

Geoffrey Simon

Works

Mussorgsky, Modest

A Night on the Bare Mountain
Capriccio and Ghourzouff
Khovanshchina
» Galitsin's Journey (Act 4)
» Prelude (Dawn over the Moscow River)
Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Lawrence Leonard for piano and orchestra)
Reverie
Scherzo in B flat major
Sorochintsy Fair
» Hopak
Une Larme (A Tear)

Artists

Tamas Ungar (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor

Geoffrey Simon

About

Written after Mussorgsky had met Russian artist and designer Viktor Hartmann, Pictures at an Exhibition is by far Mussorgsky’s most played work. The piece was written when Hartmann gave Mussorgsky two ‘pictures’. Hartmann very suddenly died aged 39; following his death, a memorial exhibition was put on in St Petersburg. Mussorgsky donated the two ‘pictures’ which Hartmann had given him before he died. Mussorgsky is said to have based the piece on his experiences at this exhibition, which was in memory of Hartmann. The concerto version is performed here by Tamás Ungár in an arrangement by Lawrence Leonard.

Australian conductor Geoffrey Simon is resident in London and has appeared there with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and English Chamber Orchestra. Internationally, he has appeared with the Adelaide, Atlanta, Bournemouth, Canberra, City of Birmingham, Fort Worth, Melbourne, Milwaukee, Queensland, Sapporo, Shanghai, St Louis, Sydney, Tasmanian, Vermont and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, the Israel, Moscow, Munich and New Japan Philharmonic Orchestras, the American Symphony, the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and the Australian Opera.

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