Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
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Composer: Franz LisztComposer: Modest Mussorgsky
Composer: John Stafford Smith
Composer: Rob Mathes
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
Orchestra: Nashville Symphony
Performer: Peng Peng
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-09-30
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Allegro maestoso
- Quasi Adagio - Allegretto vivace - Allegro animato
- Allegro marziale animato
- Promenade
- Gnomus
- Promenade
- Il vecchio castello
- Promenade
- Tuileries
- Bydlo
- Promenade
- Ballet of the unhatched Chicks
- Two Polish Jews, one rich, one poor
- Promenade
- Limoges. Le march?
- Catacombae
- Con mortuis in lingua mortua
- The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba Yaga)
- The Bogatyr Gate at Kiev
Music reviews of Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Music Review: ...and the American Way.
Rating: 4 Stars
A facetious title for this review, perhaps, but what could be more American than picking and choosing what you think to be the best from 15 different orchestrations of "Pictures"?
The result, however, is both good and bad. Good, because it serves as a sampler of a wide variety of different takes on a familiar piece that most people have never heard. Bad because the result feels like a collection of separate pieces--even though it is intrinsically an episodic work, when one person orchestrates the whole thing there is a unifying feel to it, it comes across as a whole. Here, there is no unifying feeling, and that makes for an unsatisfying experience.
It *is* valuable as a sampler, though. Ochoa's take on the opening Promenade has to be the loveliest version I have ever heard. Naoumoff's version of The Old Castle for piano and orchestra made me want to seek out a recording of the whole of his orchestration (with Naoumoff on piano and Blaschkow conducting). On the other hand, Cailliet's Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks is nothing special (and Simpson's Promenade does not lead into it very well), and Gamley's Great Gate of Kiev did not live up to all the hype I'd heard about it, falling short of the awe and power of Tomita's version for orchestra and chorus and the sheer hair-raising excitement and thrills of Sir Henry Wood's version.
All in all, an important and instructive disc but not one I will listen to in its entirety often.
General CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( L ) > Liszt, Franz
- ( M ) > Mussorgsky, Modest
- ( S ) > Smith, John Stafford
- Forms & Genres > Concertos > General
- Suites
- Historical Periods > Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > General Modern
- Instruments > Keyboard > Piano
- Symphonies > General
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Mussorgsky, Modest - Works by Mussorgsky
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