Pictures at an Exhibition, Dawn on the Moskva River

Album by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky & Charles Mackerras & Philharmonia Orchestra

Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite for solo piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky, composed in 1874. The work, rooted in the Romantic tradition, employs vivid pictorial gestures, contrasting character pieces and recurring linking passages to depict an artist's exhibition, and it subsequently became a staple of the orchestral and arrangement repertoire with an influential role in the development of programme music.

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  1. 1.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: I. Promenade
    1:29
  2. 2.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: II. Gnomus
    2:14
  3. 3.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: III. Promenade
    0:49
  4. 4.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: IV. The Old Castle
    4:13
  5. 5.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: V. Promenade
    0:24
  6. 6.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: VI. Tuileries
    1:06
  7. 7.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: VII. Bydlo
    2:46
  8. 8.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: VIII. Promenade
    0:39
  9. 9.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: IX. Ballet of Little Chicks in Their Shells
    1:14
  10. 10.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: X. Two Polish Jews (Samuil Goldenberg and Schmuyle)
    2:08
  11. 11.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: XI. Limoges
    1:18
  12. 12.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: XII. Catacombs
    2:28
  13. 13.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: XIII. Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua (Among the Dead in the Language of the Dead)
    2:14
  14. 14.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: XIV. The Hut on Hen’s Legs
    3:11
  15. 15.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: XV. The Great Gate of Kiev
    5:31
  16. 16.
    Khovanshchina: Prelude. Dawn on the Moskva River
    5:19

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