Mussorgsky, M. | Pictures At An Exhibition | CD

Modest Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, born in 1839 in Karevo and died in 1881 in Saint Petersburg. He was one of the Russian composers known as The Five, and an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition is a CD released on 20 October 2011 on the Deutsche Grammophon label, and it has one disc. The composers credited are Alexander Borodin, Aram Il'yich Khachaturian and Modest Mussorgsky. The conductors credited are Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Carlo Maria Giulini, Oliver Knussen, Ove Gotting and Neeme Järvi, with orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra and Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra.

Track List

1. Promenade
2. Gnomus
3. Promenade
4. The Old Castle
5. Promenade
6. The Tuileries Gardens
7. Bydlo
8. Promenade
9. Ballet of the Chickens in Their Shells
10. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
11. The Market-place at Limoges
12. The Catacombs
13. Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua
14. The Hut On Fowl's Legs
15. The Great Gate of Kiev
16. A Night On the Bare Mountain
17. Polovtsian Dances
18. Coronation of Boris
19. Sabre Dance
20. Dance of the Highlanders