Episode 3
Donald Macleod focuses on the year 1874, in which Mussorgsky produced probably his best-known work - Pictures at an Exhibition.
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Modest Mussorgsky.
He concentrates on the fruits of a single year, which was perhaps Mussorgsky's most productive - 1874. In the summer of this year he composed two vastly different works: Sunless, a hauntingly beautiful, but bleakly pessimistic song cycle, and Pictures at an Exhibition, which ranks amongst his most positive, affirmative music.
Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (Pictures at an Exhibition) - arr for Moog synthesiser
Tomita (keyboard)
RCA PD89381 Tr 9
Sunless (1874)
Marjana Lipovsek (mezzo-soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano)
Sony SK 66 858 Trs 8-13
Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Decca 425 045-2 Trs 1-6.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (Pictures at an Exhibition) - arr for Moog synthesiser
Performer: Tomita (keyboard)
- RCA PD89381.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Sunless (1874)
Performer: Marjana Lipovsek (mezzo-soprano) Performer: Graham Johnson (piano)
- Sony SK 66 858.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
- Decca 425 045-2.
Broadcasts
- Wed 28 Oct 200912:00BBC Radio 3
- Wed 28 Oct 200922:00BBC Radio 3
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