Browse: Mussorgsky - A Night on the Bare Mountain
Composer: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839–81)Genres:
Orchestral » Symphonic Poems
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade & Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
they bring to it all the colour and drama you’d expect. The Warner recording is rich and detailed. The Santa Cecilia brass sound is suitably fierce in the imposing opening chords, representing... — 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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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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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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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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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Night on Bare Mountain, Songs and Dances of Death
Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass)
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
[Gergiev's approach] is surprisingly mild with some of the characterisation. 'Gnomus' is agile rather than grotesque; 'The Old Castle' sorrowful (with a nicely mournful saxophone solo) rather... — More…
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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 & Rimsky Korsakov: Orchestral Works
RecommendedOslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
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Building a Library, July 2005, First Choice
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Vladimir and Vovka Ashkenazy: Russian Fantasy Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), Vovka Ashkenazy (piano)
full of taut and virtuosic double pianism. — More…
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