Browse: Mussorgsky - A Night on the Bare Mountain
Composer: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839–81)Genres:
Orchestral » Symphonic Poems
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Mussorgsky-Stokowski: Pictures at an Exhibition
RecommendedBournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier
Serebrier's own imposing, heavyweight style yields different results to the volatile Knussen… but it's always absorbing. Something of the Stokowski sound is filtered through the refined texturing... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005, Disc of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Recommendedand other Orchestral Works
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Theodore Kuchar
Ravel's orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition was commissioned by Koussevitzky as a showpiece for his superb Boston orchestra, and it proves just as impressive here to demonstrate the excellence... — More…
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Building a Library, July 2005, Budget Choice
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Mussorgsky & Rimsky Korsakov: Orchestral Works
RecommendedOslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
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Building a Library, July 2005, First Choice
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Dudamel conjures up an equally fine performance of this orchestral showpiece from the Vienna Philharmonic…this performance seems more measured, taking full account of the Vienna Philharmonic’s... — More…
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A sizzling account of Borodin's Polovtsian Dances is the centrepiece here. Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture is equally electrifying, yet there is tenderness, too, in Musorgsky's Khovanshchina... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The Musorgsky pieces are superbly performed...Bare Mountain's hair-raising opening sounding genuinely menacing rather than brash, and every cackle of the witches as impersonated by strings and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Editor's Choice
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The sound of the Trpčeski recording is very good, offering clarity, detail, and solid, well-defined piano tone, with no ringing or blurring even in the loudest passages. This release will give... — More…
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
RecommendedElena Zaremba (mezzo-soprano)
Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado
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Building a Library, January 2012, First Choice
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Building a Library, July 2019, Proms BaL Recommendation
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Fournet and the Concertgebouw offer idiomatic accounts of the Peer Gynt Suites and a wonderfully atmospheric Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, but sound less fired-up in Musorgsky and Borodin. — More…
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It’s the second half of this disc that surely justifies the epithet ‘Russian spectacular’. I doubt whether you’d hear a more pulsating and brilliantly executed performance of the Lyapunov orchestration... — More…
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