Pictures at an Exhibition
1. Promenade
2. Gnomus
3. Promenade
4. Il vecchio Castello
5. Promenade
6. Les Tuileries (Dispute d’enfants après jeux)
7. Bydlo
8. Promenade
9. Ballet of the unhatched Chickens
10. Deux juifs I’un riche et I’autre pauvre. (Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle)
11. Promenade
12. Limoges. Le marche, (La grande nouvelle)
13. Catacombae (Sepulcrum Romanum)
14. Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
15. The Hut on Chicken’s Legs (BabaYaga)
16. The Heroic Gate (in the Capital of Kiev)
17. Hopak of the young Ukrainians (fragment of the opera) “The Fair of Sorochinsk” (second version) (Transcription for the piano by the composer), G major (1874-80)
18. Scene at the Fair (from the opera)”The Fair of Sorochinsk”( Transcription for the piano by the composer) 1874-80
Sonata (for piano duet), C major (1860)
19. Allegro
20. Scherzo
Complete Piano Works Vol. 2 ©
Most of Mussorgsky’s piano works are short characteristic pieces, many on a trifling scale, but often of significant content. His greatest work apart from the operas is the piano suite “Pictures at an Exhibition” which was composed in 1871.
Mussorgsky’s good friend, the draughtsman and architect Victor Hartmann, died unexpectedly and a memorial exhibition was arranged for him. Mussorgsky visited the exhibition and felt movcd to commemorate his late friend in music.
The suite consists of ten “pictures” introduced by a “Promenade” which returns several times during the suite, albeit each time in altered form. This piece is a depiction of Mussorgsky himself and appears between the pictures when he leaves one exhibition room in order to enter the next. The varying form of
the piece each time it is heard reflects the shifting moods of the composer.
RELEASE DATE: APRIL 2001
CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 552
EAN: 5709499552001
