Mussorgsky Pictures Concerto

Pictures at an Exhibition: The Piano Concerto? Yes, folks, you heard right. Emile Naoumoff expands Mussorgsky’s score with tacky transitions, vulgar cadenzas, and lumpy orchestrations.

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Mussorgsky-Ravel

Anyone glancing at the front and back covers of this CD would get the impression that it’s Marriner and the Academy performing Mussorgsky’s Pictures. Would

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Stoki Russian Stuff BBC C

The performances on this disc are predictably fine–vintage Stokowski in fact–and not too badly recorded given their provenance (Royal Albert Hall, 1969). There’s only one

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Mata Orchestral

This collection of popular orchestral showpieces is fully worthy of the High Performance label. The late Eduardo Mata conducts a wonderfully varied late-19th/early-20th century program

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Mussorgsky Works

Although these thoroughly Russian forces–conductor Mark Gorenstein and the Russian Symphony–have chosen the Ravel orchestration of their beloved Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, they’ve put

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Sibelius-Gibson

Alexander Gibson’s 1980s Sibelius cycle on Chandos, one of the first digital sets, was praised for its clean lines, propulsive phrasing, and bracing impact. This

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