Pictures at an Exhibition Archive
DVORAK: Sym. No. 9; MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition – Bavarian Radio Sym. /Mariss Jansons, Blu-ray (2016)
DVORAK: Symphony No. 9; MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition – Bavarian Radio Sym. Orch. /Mariss Jansons Studio: Belvedere [4/1/16] (Distr. by Naxos) Video: HD 1.77:1 for 16:9 screens, color Audio: DTS-HD 5.0, PCM Stereo Region Region free. (note: Amazon lists this as Region B, but the disc is region free) Length: 83 minutes Audio: **** Video **** […]
SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No. 3 in f-sharp minor; Etude in c-sharp minor; Prelude for the Left Hand; MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition; A Night on Bare Mountain – Alessio Bax, p. – Signum Classics
Alessio Bax offer us Scriabin and Mussorgsky in lyrical, if not stentorian, colors.
Benno Moiseiwitsch = in piano music of BEETHOVEN, SCHUMANN, MUSSORGSKY, RACHMANINOV & CHOPIN + radio interviews – Testament (3 CDs)
The “George Sanders of the keyboard,” Benno Moiseiwitsch, reveals his colossal gifts in previously unpublished performances and interviews.
SCHUMANN: Fantasie in C Major; MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition – Paul Lewis, piano – Harmonia mundi
Paul Lewis engages two sides of Romanticism, the epic and the lyrically personal, in his rendition of Mussorgsky and Schumann.
Imaginary Pictures = MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition; SCHUMANN: Carnaval – Kirill Gerstein, piano – Myrios
Kirill Gerstein takes us on a familiar voyage of Romantic piano suites, but his approach maintains the grand style.
James Brawn in Recital, Volume 1 = BACH/BUSONI: Chaconne; Prelude in C; LISZT: Mephisto Waltz No. 1; Consolation No. 3; MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition; RACHMANINOFF: Prelude in b – James Brawn, p. – MSR Classics
It’s getting to be a habit—every new recording by Mr. Brawn demands attention.
Saxophone Pictures = MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition; DRESSEL: Partita; CANFIELD: Trio after Brahms in G minor – Kenneth Tse, sax/ Rachel Patrick, violin/ Lin-Yu Wang & Alan Huckleberry, pianos – Crystal Records
The saxophone’s full range explored in three diverse pieces.
MUSSORGSKY: Russian Songs (orch. Markevitch); Pictures at an Exhibition; STRAVINSKY: Symphony of Psalms – Galina Vishnevskaya, sop./ Russian State Academic Choir/ Berlin Philharmonic/ Russian Symphony Orch./ Igor Markevitch – Praga Digitals
An album that shows just how magnificent great SACD remastering can sound.
MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition; Songs and Dances of Death; The Nursery – New Zealand Sym. Orch./ Peter Breiner – Naxos Pure Audio Blu-ray
New orchestrations of three important works by Mussorgsky, in Blu-ray hi-res.
MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition – Transcribed for pipe organ – Calvin Hampton – HDTT
Amazing fidelity in the 192K/24-bit version of this organ transcription.
Audio News for October 5, 2012
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MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition; PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet: Ten Pieces, Op. 75; Toccata in D Minor, Op. 11 – Nikolai Demidenko, piano – Helios
Three colossal “standards” of the Russian school find their potent acolyte with Demidenko and his old school virtuosity in 1998 recordings.
Classical Meets Jazz (2009/2011)
A video of a two-piano premiere of a jazz interpretation of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition in Boston’s famed Jordan Hall.