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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
(James Crabb & Geir Draugsvoll)


Album : Duos for Classical Accordions
Composer(s) : Mussorgsky, Stravinsky
Performers : James Crabb & Geir Draugsvoll
Release date : 2005
Label : EMI Classics
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 52,5 MB
Total time : 00:37:47

Individual track details :
01. Petrouchka, scènes burleques en quatre tableaux (transc. Crabb & Draugsvoll): Premier tableau
02. Petrouchka, scènes burleques en quatre tableaux (transc. Crabb & Draugsvoll): Deuxième tableau
03. Petrouchka, scènes burleques en quatre tableaux (transc. Crabb & Draugsvoll): Troisième tableau
04., scènes burleques en quatre tableaux (transc. Crabb & Draugsvoll): Quatrième tableau
05. Tango
06. Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
07. Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 1, The Gnome
08. Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
09. Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 2, The Old Castle
10. Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
11. Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 3, The Tuileries
12. Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 4, Bydlo
13. Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
14. Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 5, Ballet of the Chickens in their Shell
15. Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 6, Samuel Goldenberg and Schmyle
16. Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
17. Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 7, Limoges: The Market Place
18. Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 8, The Catacombs
19. Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 9, The Hut on Cock's Legs "Baba-Yaga"
20. Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 10, The Great Gate of Kiev

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Petrouchka arranged for two accordions is not unlike the original, since the composer's push-button winds and biting, nasal strings resemble nothing if not a giant orchestral squeeze box. Little is lost in this "de-orchestration"--for example, percussion passages are dealt with by whacking the accordion's sides. Stravinsky's Tango also lies well on the instrument, but the players miss the music's ironic bite. James Crabb and Geir Draugsvoll recast Pictures at an Exhibition with dazzling ingenuity. Their prim and spotless virtuosity, however, transforms Mussorgsky's raging, elemental lion into an agreeable, domestic kitty cat. Nevertheless, accordion fanciers will be enticed. Move over, Lawrence Welk!
--Jed Distler

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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
(Alexander Warenberg)


Album : Pictures at an Exhibition
Composer(s) : Moussorgsky
Performer : Alexander Warenberg
Release date : 2000
Label : Brilliant
Number of discs : 2
Total size : 109 + 131 MB
Total time : 00:47:41 + 00:57:16

Individual track details :
CD 1
MUSSORGSKY, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881)
Pictures at an Exhibition
1. Promenade-G nonius 3:56
2. Promenade-Il vecchio Casteilo (The old Castle) 5:09
3. Promenade-Tuileries 1:31
4. Bydlo 3:10
5. Promenade-Ballet of the unhatched chicken 2:01
6. Samuel Goldenbere & Schmuvle 1:56
7. Promenade-Market place at Limoges 2:59
8. Catacombae: Sepulcram romanum - Con moiluis in lingua mortua 3:39
9. Baba Yaga (The hut on fowl"s legs) 3:04
10. The Great Gate of Kiev 5:74
RACHMANINOV, Sergey Vasil'yevich (1873-1943)
11. Etude-tableau in G minor Op. 33 No.7 3:04
12. Prelude in G sharp minor Op. 32 No. 12 2:13
13. Elegie, in E flat minor Op. 3 No. 1 4:01
14. Prelude in D major Op. 23 No. 4 3:53
15. Etude-tableau in E flat major Op. 33 No. 6 1:38

CD 2
TCHAIKOVSKY, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
The Seasons Op. 37b
1. Januarv-By the fireside 5:06
2. Febraarv-Shrovetide Festival 2:54
3. March-Song of the Lark". 1:40
4. April-Snowdrop 2:08
5. Mav-White Nights 4" 14 4:14
6. June-Barcarolle 3:46
7. July-Song of the reaper 1:43
8. August-Harvest 3:09
9. September-The Hunt 3:03
10. October-Autumn Song 3:23
11. November-Troika 2:37
12. December-Yuletide 3:37
LIADOV, Anatolii (1855-1914)
13. Valse. in F sharp minor 1:32
BALAKIREV, Miliy Alexeyevich (1837-1910)
14. Mazurka No. 7 in E flat minor 6:38
TCHAIKOVSKY, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
15. Dumka. in C minor Op. 59 7:33
LIADOV, Anatolii (1855-1914)
16. Mazurka, in A flat major 2:19
SCRIABIN, Alexander (1872-1915)
17. Mazurka, in C sharp minor 2:16

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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Winterthurer Gitarrenduo)


Album : Promenade
Composer(s) : Rameau, Bach, Mussorgsky
Performer(s) : Winterthurer Gitarrenduo (Georg Della Pietra & Sebastian Storm)
Release date : 2003
Label : Brambus
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 86,2 MB
Total time : 01:02:08

Individual track details :
Rameau : Piéces de Clavecin
1. LES CYCLOPES 4:01
2. LES NIAIS DE SOLOGNE 2:09
3. PREMIER DOUBLE DES NIAIS 1:50
4. DEUXIEME DOUBLE DES NIAIS 2:00
5. LA BOITEUSE 0:59
6. GIGUE EN RONDEAU 1:20
7. DEUXIEME GIGUE EN RONDEAU 2:06
8. LE RAPPEL DES OISEAUX 2:34

J. S. Bach: Italian Concerto BWV 971
9. ALLEGRO 3:51
10. ANDANTE 4:48
11. PRESTO 3:58

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
12. PROMENADE 1:17
13. GNOMUS 2:31
14. PROMENADE 0:52
15. IL VECCHIO CASTELLO 3:54
16. PROMENADE 0:28
17. TUILERIES 0:58
18. BYDLO 2:11
19. PROMENADE 0:43
20. BALLET OF THE UNHATCHED CHICKS 1:16
21. SAMUEL GOLDENBERG AND SCHMUYLE 2:24
22. PROMENADE 1:19
23. LIMOGES: LE MARCHE 1:41
24. CATACOMBAE 1:44
25. CUM MORTIUS IN LINGUA MORTUA 1:53
26. DIE HÜTTE AUF HÜHNERFÜSSEN 3:17
27. THE BOGATYR GATE IN KIEW 5:18

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Swiss guitarists Georg Della Pietra and Sebastian Storm offer the first recordings of new transcriptions for two classical guitars of works by Jean Philippe Rameau ("Pieces de Clavecin"), Johann Sebastian Bach ("Italian Concerto"), and Modest Mussorgski's "Pictures at an Exhibition." Winthurer Gitarrenduo delivers spirited, note-perfect versions of highly demanding material. A splendid recording.

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Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Elgar Howarth, Philip Jones
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition
Saint-Saëns – Carnival des animaux


Artist: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Elgar Howarth, Philip Jones
CD title: Pictures at an Exhibition/Carnival des animaux
Release date: 1991
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Classical
Time: 00:58:08
Total size: 82,3 MB

Tracks:
01. Pictures- Promenade 1; Gnomus (The Gnome).mp3 4:43
02. Pictures- Promenade 2.mp3 0:57
03. Pictures- II vecchio castello (The Old Castle).mp3 4:38
04. Pictures- Promenade 3; Tuileries (The Tuileries Gardens).mp3 1:36
05. Pictures- Bydlo.mp3 3:02
06. Pictures- Promenade 4; Ballet des poussins dans leurscoques (Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells).mp3 2:07
07. Pictures- Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle (Two Jews-One Rich, the other Poor).mp3 2:16
08. Pictures- Promenade 5; Limoges- le marché (The Weekly Market at Limoges); Catacombae (The Catacombs).mp3 5:25
09. Pictures- Cum mortuis in lingua mortua (With the Dead in a Language Dead).mp3 1:55
10. Pictures- Baba Yaga; La Grande Porte de Kiev (The Great Gate of Kiev).mp3 8:59
11. Carnival- 1 Introduction et marche royale du lion (Introduction and Royal March of the Lion).mp3 2:26
12. Carnival- 2 Poules et coqs (Hens and Cockerals).mp3 1:00
13. Carnival- 3 Hémiones (Wild Asses).mp3 0:55
14. Carnival- 4 Tortues (Tortoises).mp3 1:29
15. Carnival- 5 L'Eléphant (The Elephant).mp3 1:25
16. Carnival- 6 Kangourous (Kangaroos).mp3 0:53
17. Carnival- 7 Aquarium.mp3 2:17
18. Carnival- 8 Personnages à longues oreilles (Persons with Long Ears).mp3 0:43
19. Carnival- 9 Le Coucou au fond des bois (The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods).mp3 2:14
20. Carnival- 10 Volière (Aviary).mp3 1:32
21. Carnival- 11 Brass Players (Pianistes-Pianists).mp3 1:18
22. Carnival- 12 Fossiles (Fossils).mp3 1:28
23. Carnival- 13 Le Cygne (The Swan).mp3 2:16
24. Carnival- 14 Finale.mp3 2:24

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Mussorgsky- Stokowski: Pictures at an Exhibition
(Matthias Bamert, BBC Philharmonic)



Album : Stokowski’s Mussorgsky
Composer : Modest Mussorgsky
Performer : Matthias Bamert, BBC Philharmonic
Release date : 1993
Label: Chandos
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 158 MB
Total time : 01:09:17

Individual track details :
1. St. John's Night on Bald Mountain, "A Night on the Bare Mountain" (arr. by L. Stokowski)
Boris Godunov: A Symphonic Synthesis (arr. by L. Stokowski)
2. Outside the Novodievichi Monastery —
3. Coronation of Boris —
4. Minks chanting in the Monastery of Choudov —
5. Siege of Kazan —
6. Outside the Church of Saint Basil —
7. Death of Boris —
8. Khovanshchina, Act IV: Entr'acte (arr. L. Stokowski)
Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. by L. Stokowski)
9. Promenade —
10. Gnomus —
11. Promenade —
12. The Old Castle —
13. Bydlo —
14. Promenade —
15. Ballet of the Chickens in their Shells —
16. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle —
17. Catacombs —
18. Con mortuis in lingua mortua —
19. The Hut on Fowl's Legs, "Baba Yaga" —
20. The Great Gate of Kiev

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Mathias Bamert is a totally sympathetic conductor for this music. Stokowski made three recordings of Night on the Bare Mountain, not counting the one for Fantasia, but Bamert's is equal to any of them, with a beautifully idyllic slow ending. Bamert's treatment of Pictures is a dazzling recreation of brilliant orchestration, but the great gem in this collection is the Boris synthesis. Once again Bamert equals Stokowski's three recordings (1936, 1941, 1968). Obviously Stokowski had on-going ideas for this score; in his last recording (on Decca/London, with the Suisse Romande Orchestra), he added a snippet from the end of the death scene, plus a shimmeringly sustained string chord that ends with soft chimes—an ending he also used in a 1968 Boston Symphony Orchestra concert. Apparently this addition wasn't published, and thus is not used in the Bamert recording. Chandos' sound is their very best, wonderfully capturing this multitude of colorful sounds with a fine sense of space and presence. A fabulous CD!

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Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
(Von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker)


Album : Pictures at an Exhibition
Composer(s) : Modest Mussorgsky, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy
Performers : Herbert von Karajan, Berlminer Philharmoniker
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Release date : 1966
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 172 MB (mp3), 348 MB (FLAC)
Total time : 01:14:53

Tracks :
1. La Mer - 1. From Dawn till Noon on the Sea (De l'aube à midi sur la mer) 8:35
2. La Mer - 2. Play of the Waves (Jeux de vagues) 6:13
3. La Mer - 3. Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea (Dialogue du vent et de la mer) 7:50
4. Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade 1:50
5. Pictures at an Exhibition - Gnomus 2:44
6. Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade 1:14
7. Pictures at an Exhibition - The Old Castle 4:36
8. Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade 0:41
9. Pictures at an Exhibition - The Tuileries Gardens 1:04
10. Pictures at an Exhibition - Bydlo 2:49
11. Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade 1:01
12. Pictures at an Exhibition - Ballet of the Chickens in Their Shells 1:12
13. Pictures at an Exhibition - Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle 2:18
14. Pictures at an Exhibition - The Market-place at Limoges 1:26
15. Pictures at an Exhibition - The Catacombs (Sepulchrum romanum) 2:14
16. Pictures at an Exhibition - Cum mortuis in lingua mortua 2:22
17. Pictures at an Exhibition - The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga) 3:31
18. Pictures at an Exhibition - The Great Gate of Kiev 6:44
19. Boléro 16:09

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Here are examples of 'The Karajan Effect' at its most positive, and sounding, in these new transfers, fractionally more open, focused and fresh than before, with the billowing bass moderated and the dynamic range extended. Along with Karajan's own imaginative deployment of orchestral colour (to take one example: the extra gong with barely damped striker at the end of Pictures), the Berlin Jesus-Christus Kirche acoustics of these 1964-6 recordings add their own wonderful coloration and atmosphere (dark and cavernous at appropriate moments in Pictures). The 1980s Berlin Philharmonic DG remakes (in their remastered 'Karajan Gold' format) offer something closer to concert-hall reality (a cleaner more neutral sound) but, on the whole, the imaginative daring and the excited discovery of new realms of creative and technical possibility are missing; certainly the 1980s performances are less given to spontaneous ignition.
For those unfamiliar with these 1960s accounts, Bolero is slow and steady (but Karajan risks floating the early solos), and Pictures is broader and grander than Karajan's previous and subsequent recordings (and most others). But how does one do justice to this La mer in a single sentence? Well, you can either be seduced by some of the most sheerly beautiful orchestral sound ever recorded, or appreciate it for its wide-ranging imagery and its properly mobile pacing; but whichever way you look at it, it is one of the great recorded La mers and one of the classics of the gramophone.
-- John Steane, Gramophone [12/1995]

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