This week would have been the 128th birthday of one of Russian’s most famous composers, Modest Mussorgsky. Some of you might know him as the composer of Pictures at an Exhibition, but all of you know ...
Ravel’s vivid orchestration of Mussorgsky’s gallery has long eclipsed the piano original in popularity. Mark Pullinger ranges across 10 decades in his search for the finest recording The 1881 portrait ...
Mussorgsky’s “Khovanshchina” has been added onto by Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky and Shostakovich. Now, another composer gets to have his say. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown Reporting from Salzburg, Austria ...
A multi-media version of Mussorgsky/Ravel’s "Pictures at an Exhibition" composition. This program depicts an innovative, multi-media version of Mussorgsky/Ravel’s "Pictures at an Exhibition," ...
Most have heard the famous opening of Mussorgsky/Ravel’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” with its regal brass chorale used in films, TV, video games, and even as WWE entrance music. This year, we mark ...
A ‘cradle-to-grave songspiel’ describing the arc of a woman’s life is brilliantly conceived by soprano Booth and pianist Glynn Modest Mussorgsky is indisputably one of the greatest of 19th-century ...
If you were a teenager shopping for albums in late 1971, all you needed to know about Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”—a rock interpretation of Modest Mussorgsky’s 1874 work of the ...
Here's our guide to 10 of the finest recordings of Mussorgsky's music, from the ever-popular Pictures from an Exhibition to the hidden treasure of the Nursery songs We have been writing about ...
It couldn't come more full cirlce: Kandinsky created his only stage production based on Mussorgsky's piano cycle, "Pictures at an Exhibition," inspired by a photo exhibition. Kandinsky's stage designs ...