PM 201 MODEST MUSSORGSKY. [1839 - 1881]

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from PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION, Everest TT 43 004London Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent

• Pictures at an Exhibition, transcription by Maurice Ravel [1922] 32:30
  • [1] Promenade/ Gnomus, a crafty gnome
  • [2] Promenade/Il Vecchio Castello (The mediaeval castle) a singing troubadour
  • [3] Promenade/Tuileries (In Tuileries garden) childs play
  • [4] Bydio, a cart drawn by oxen
  • [5] Ballet des Paussins dans Ieurs Coques, hatchling chicks
  • [6] Samuel Goldenburg and Schmuyle, haughty and poor
  • [7] Limoges - le marche, at the marketplace
  • [8] Catacombs con Mortuis in Lingue Moriua, death warmed over
  • [9] Baba Yaga (Hut on fowl's legs)
  • [10] La Grande Porte de Kiev, a mighty monument that was actually never built
• [11] A night on Bald Mountain, as arranged by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov [1886] for orchestra. Full of demons and spooks. 11:10

from TCHAIKOVSKY/ BORODIN/ RIMSKY-KORSAKOV/ MOUSSORGSKY, Epic EC 801Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell

• [12] Dawn on the Moskva River, (Prelude to Khovantchina) as completed by Rimsky-Korsakov [1886] good morning Moscow. 5:00

from THE HEART OF THE OPERA, Mercury J 9130Minneapolis Symphony/Antal Dorati

• [13] Persian Slaves Dance, from Khovantchina

from SCENES FROM BORIS GODOUNOFF, Columbia MQ 418,George London/ Mildred Allen/ Stanley Kolk/ Howard Fried, Columbia Symphony Orchestra Chorus/Thomas Schippers, Bliss Herbert/ Choral director. [1874] Orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov [1844-1908] sung in Russian.

• [14] Prologue and coronation scene, with bells 8:20

TRT 65:07

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