Utwory na płycie:

• Pictures at an Exhibition: i. Promenade
• Pictures at an Exhibition: ii. No 1 Gnomus
• Pictures at an Exhibition: iii. Interlude: Promenade
• Pictures at an Exhibition: iv. No 2 Il vecchio castello
• Pictures at an Exhibition: v. Interlude: Promenade
• Pictures at an Exhibition: vi. No 3 Tuileries
• Pictures at an Exhibition: vii. No 4 Bydlo
• Pictures at an Exhibition: viii. Interlude: Promenade
• Pictures at an Exhibition: ix. No 5 Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques
• Pictures at an Exhibition: x. No 6 Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle
• Pictures at an Exhibition: xi. No 7 Limoges, le marche
• Pictures at an Exhibition: xii. No 8 Catacombae (sepulchrum Romanum)
• Pictures at an Exhibition: xiii. Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
• Pictures at an Exhibition: xiv. No 9 La cabane sur des pattes de poule (Baba-Iaga)
• Pictures at an Exhibition: xv. No 10 La grande porte de Kiev
• Songs and Dances of Death: i. Lullaby
• Songs and Dances of Death: ii. Serenade
• Songs and Dances of Death: iii. Trepak
• Songs and Dances of Death: iv. The Field Marshal
• Night on Bare Mountain

Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra celebrate Mussorgsky with the release of two of his most cherished works, Pictures at an Exhibition and Night on Bare Mountain (performed here in Mussorgsky’s original version).

Gergiev is at his finest conducting these paragons of Mussorgsky’s work, featured alongside which are the seldom heard Songs and Dances of Death, composed during the years 1875 to 1877 and left languishing unpublished during the composer’s lifetime. One of Mussorgsky’s most powerful compositions, each song deals with death in a poetic manner reflecting experiences not uncommon in 19th century Russia: child death, death in youth, drunken misadventure and war.

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Recorded June & October 2014 in the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg.