Mussorgsky on the Strings

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Release Date: 8th Jun 2018
Catalogue No: MELCD1002520
Label: Melodiya
Length: 64 minutes

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Work length35:41

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Divertissement Chamber Orchestra
Ilya Ioff

Promenade I (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length1:44

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No. 1, Gnomus (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length3:07

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Promenade II (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length0:54

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No. 2, Il Vecchio Castello (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length4:39

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Promenade III (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length0:30

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No. 3, Tuileries (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length1:04

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No. 4, Bydlo (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length2:37

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Promenade IV (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length0:50

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No. 5, Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length1:11

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No. 6, Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length2:34

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Promenade V (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length1:35

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No. 7, Limoges, Le marché (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length1:15

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No. 8, Catacombæ - Sepulcrum romanum (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length2:32

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No. 8, Catacombæ - Cum mortuis in lingua mortua (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length1:50

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No. 9, The Hut on Fowl’s Legs / Baba-Yagá (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length3:38

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No. 10, The Knight’s Gate / In the Old Capital of Kiev (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length5:41

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Mussorgsky: The Nursery

Work length16:36

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Vera Chekanova
Divertissement Chamber Orchestra
Ilya Ioff

I. With Nanny (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length2:03

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II. In the Corner (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length1:38

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III. The Beetle (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length2:37

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IV. With the Doll (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length2:16

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V. At Bedtime (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length2:09

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VI. On the Hobby-Horse (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length3:32

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VII. The Cat Sailor (arr. Ilya Ioff)

Track length2:21

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Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain

Work length11:48

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Divertissement Chamber Orchestra
Ilya Ioff

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On this release, Firma Melodiya presents of Modest Mussorgsky’s piano and vocal cycles Pictures at an Exhibition and The Nursery arranged for string orchestra! The transcription was made by Ilya Ioff, a renowned St. Petersburg musician, violinist and conductor and an Honored Artist of Russia. Mussorgsky’s works are performed by his chamber orchestra Divertissement. “Just another arrangement”, some listeners may say. Mussorgsky’s piano and vocal music has seen dozens of different transcriptions and orchestrations throughout 130 years of its existence. Can a new reading of Pictures at an Exhibition come as a surprise, knowing that the suite was previously played on the organ, bayan and synthesizer, by jazz and rock outfits, and is primarily associated with the gorgeous sound of Ravel’s orchestration? Ilya Ioff, the author of the new transcription, is confident that the string arrangement significantly returns this music to the piano original that Ravel’s post-impressionistic transcription moved so far away from (the more so because Ravel was guided by the first edition of the Pictures prepared by Rimsky-Korsakov, which had some deviations from Mussorgsky’s original). “… As I tried to interpret the piano pattern as a ”native” string one, I unintentionally “rehabilitated” the Russianness of this great cycle by adding, on the one hand, more melodiousness coming from the nature of the string instruments, and, on the other, running away from the temptation of “coloring” the material with effects untypical for 19th century Russian music”, Ilya Ioff writes.

Mussorgsky on the Strings

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