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Ancerl’s Pictures: Out-Russianing the Russians

David Hurwitz

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Reference Recording: Pictures: This One, Ormandy (Sony), Reiner (RCA), Capriccio: Bernstein (Sony)

MODEST MUSSORGSKY - Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel); A Night on Bald Mountain
ALEXANDER BORODIN - In the Steppes of Central Asia
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV - Capriccio espagnol

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