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MUSSORGSKY, M.P.: Great Composers in Words and Music
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Classical Music
Language
English
Abstract
Track Details: Introduction (NaN min. NaN sec.)(10 sec.) -- Pictures at an Exhibition: IV. Bydlo (excerpt) (NaN min. NaN sec.)(51 sec.) / Mussorgsky -- Recalling his time spent in Berlin in the 1830s, the Russian literary critic Pavel Annenkov declared: "Every Russian newcomer was wryly asked whether he wished to stay in Berlin and…" (02 min. 40 sec.) -- Kamarinskaya (excerpt) (NaN min. NaN sec.)(55 sec.) / Glinka -- If Glinka was the fountainhead of Russian music, his offspring - in a musical sense - included Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Borodin and Modest Mussorgsky… (04 min. 24 sec.) -- Intermezzo in modo classico (1867 version for piano) (excerpt) (01 min. 31 sec.) / Mussorgsky -- Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was born on 21 March 1839 into a wealthy, land-owning family in the provincial town of Karevo, situated in the Pskov district in the north-west of Russia… (01 min. 49 sec.) -- Porte-enseigne Polka (Ensign-Polka) (excerpt) (01 min. 08 sec.) / Mussorgsky -- After being commissioned an officer in the elite Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Imperial Guards, Mussorgsky met a group of musicians with whom he would be forever associated: "The Five"… (01 min. 55 sec.) -- Scherzo in C-Sharp Minor (excerpt) (01 min. 14 sec.) / Mussorgsky -- Another personal crisis appears to have occurred a couple of years later, in the summer of 1860, while Mussorgsky was staying at the rural estate of the Shilovskys, a St. Petersburg couple… (02 min. 08 sec.) -- Pictures at an Exhibition: VIII. Catacombae (Sepulcrum romanum) (excerpt) (NaN min. NaN sec.)(52 sec.) / Mussorgsky -- Another extract from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, this a movement titled Catacombs… (01 min. 49 sec.) -- Seminarist (The Seminarist) (excerpt) (01 min. 25 sec.) / Mussorgsky -- The following year, 1867, Mussorgsky finished an orchestral project that he seems to have had in mind for several years. This was the now-popular tone-poem Night on Bald Mountain, a work that… (01 min. 10 sec.) -- St. John's Night on Bald Mountain, "A Night on the Bare Mountain" (original version) (excerpt) (NaN min. NaN sec.)(46 sec.) / Mussorgsky -- That Mussorgsky never heard his tone-poem in performance is perhaps not surprising, given the work's immediate reception… (02 min. 27 sec.) -- Zhenit'ba (The Marriage), Act I Scene 1: Vot tak nachnyosh etak (Here is how you start) (01 min. 42 sec.) / Mussorgsky -- Despite his bold proclamation of his compositional intentions in Marriage, Mussorgsky would go on to call the opera a mere preparatory exercise: "an experiment in dramatic music in prose"… (04 min. 15 sec.) -- Boris Godunov, Prologue Scene 1: Introduction (1869 version) (excerpt) (01 min. 14 sec.) / Mussorgsky -- A final passage from Boris Godunov furnishes another example of a folk-inspired musical style… (01 min. 01 sec.) -- Boris Godunov, Act IV Scene 1: Lejtes', lejtes', slëzy gor'ki (Flow, bitter tears) (1869 version) (01 min. 58 sec.) / Mussorgsky -- Here at the end of the opera, Mussorgsky paints a sorrowful picture… (02 min. 58 sec.) -- Khovanshchina, Act I: Introduction (excerpt) (02 min. 21 sec.) / Mussorgsky -- At the time Mussorgsky was working on Khovanshchina, Boris finally premiered at the Mariinsky… (02 min. 12 sec.) -- Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade (01 min. 15 sec.) / Mussorgsky -- In between the seemingly happenstance occurrences of Mussorgsky's Promenade theme are movements that function as personal reminiscences: not the kind of dispassionate musical observations that… (NaN min. NaN sec.)(45 sec.) -- Pictures at an Exhibition: II. Old Castle (excerpt) (NaN min. NaN sec.)(48 sec.) / Mussorgsky -- Yet, as with Boris Godunov, Pictures at an Exhibition features contrasting styles… (NaN min. NaN sec.)(34 sec.) -- Pictures at an Exhibition: V. Ballet of the Chickens in their Shells (01 min. 14 sec.) / Mussorgsky -- 1874 was a busy year: besides working on the Pictures suite and Sunless songs, Mussorgsky started another musical project, one that - like the opera Khovanshchina - would also be left unfinished… (03 min. 08 sec.) -- Pesni i plyaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death): No. 3. Trepak (arr. E. Denisov for voice and orchestra) (excerpt) (01 min. 54 sec.) / Mussorgsky -- Mussorgsky started work on his Songs and Dances of Death in the first half of 1875, but the cycle was not finished until June 1877… (02 min. 07 sec.) -- Pesnya Mefistofelya v pogrebke Auerbakha (Mephistopheles's Song in Auerbach's Cellar), "Song of the Flea" (excerpt) (01 min. NaN sec.) / Mussorgsky -- Following Mussorgsky's dismissal from government service on 13 January 1880, the composer made further appearances as Leonova's accompanist… (05 min. 48 sec.) -- Pictures at an Exhibition: X. The Great Gate at Kiev (excerpt) (02 min. 07 sec.) / Mussorgsky
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