Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, etc.

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Every so often a disc comes along that really makes you sit up. This is such a disc. Tugan Sokhiev is back in his element dispensing star quality with almost every bar of this coupling. If the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 30th Oct 2006
Catalogue No: V5068
Label: Naive
Length: 76 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

January 2007

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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Work length33:26

$15.00

$19.50

Toulouse Capitol Orchestra
Tugan Sokhiev

Promenade

Track length1:39

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$1.30

I. The Gnome

Track length2:51

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Promenade

Track length1:06

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II. The Old Castle

Track length4:35

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Promenade

Track length0:31

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III. Tuileries

Track length1:09

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$1.30

IV. Bydlo

Track length2:43

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Promenade

Track length0:50

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V. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks

Track length1:14

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VI. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle

Track length2:37

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VII. The Market Place at Limoges

Track length1:25

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VIII. Catacombae: Sepulchrum romanum

Track length1:58

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Cum mortuis in lingua mortua

Track length2:05

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IX. The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga)

Track length3:14

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X. The Great Gate of Kiev

Track length5:29

$1.00

$1.30

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

Work length42:44

$10.00

$12.90

Toulouse Capitol Orchestra
Tugan Sokhiev

I. Andante sostenuto - Moderato con anima

Track length18:40

$4.00

$5.15

II. Andantino in modo di canzone

Track length10:04

$3.00

$3.85

III. Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato - Allegro

Track length5:27

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IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco

Track length8:33

$2.00

$2.60

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Every so often a disc comes along that really makes you sit up. This is such a disc. Tugan Sokhiev is back in his element dispensing star quality with almost every bar of this coupling. If the ability to create atmosphere, to transport, to excite, to provoke reassessment of a piece, are the first signs of greatness then Sokhiev's beautifully heard and richly imagined account of Mussorgsky's Pictures is very much the promise of things to come. It is the case throughout that the subtlety, the piquancy, the Frenchness of Ravel's colourations appear disarmingly pristine – as in 'why have I never noticed that before?' One quibble amid everything that is so well judged (and so well played) is the increasing of tempo as 'The Great Gate of Kiev' is finally flung wide. Why? No quibbles at all about the Tchaikovsky, though. Seriously, this is one of the most impressive accounts since the days of Markevitch and Mravinsky. Sokhiev makes real musical and emotional sense of the notoriously hazardous first movement. The listless, febrile nature of it reaches great heights in the development and coda where the hair-raising tremolando restatement of the first subject achieves real catharsis. Indeed, Sokhiev's songful Toulouse woodwinds – so poetic in the Andantino – cannot for long disguise an air of desperation. The whizz-bang finale delivers that in spades.

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, etc.

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