Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition, Night on Bald Mountain
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Label: Telarc
Cat No: CD80705
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 22nd September 2008
Contents
Works
A Night on the Bare MountainKhovanshchina
Artists
Cincinnati Symphony OrchestraConductor
Paavo JarviWorks
A Night on the Bare MountainKhovanshchina
Artists
Cincinnati Symphony OrchestraConductor
Paavo JarviAbout
Paavo Järvi
continues his series of Russian recordings with the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra with a disc entirely devoted to works by Mussorgsky.
Pictures at an
Exhibition, originally composed for piano, is heard here in the orchestration
by Ravel. Mussorgsy wrote pictures as a
tribute to his friend, artist and architect Viktor Hartmann. The familiar Promenade theme links Mussorgsky’s imaginary tour of Hartmann’s
exhibition.
Rimsky-Korsakov, who felt that Night on Bald Mountain had many
marvellous effects, tried to resurrect it after his friend died. He smoothed
out many of the irregularities and improved the orchestration, most likely
working from the final version of the piece.
The Prelude to Mussorgsky’s ill-fated opera Khovanschchina is
titled Dawn on the
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