Pictures at an Exhibition

Album by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky & Maurice Ravel & Wiener Philharmoniker & André Previn

Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite for solo piano by Russian composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, written in 1874. The programme work was inspired by a memorial exhibition of artworks and exemplifies Russian nationalist idioms and vivid pictorial writing, occupying a central place in Mussorgsky's mature piano output and the late 19th-century Russian repertoire.
First released: 21st April 1985

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
    1:41
  2. 2.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: Gnomus
    2:35
  3. 3.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
    1:01
  4. 4.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: Il Vechio Castello
    4:26
  5. 5.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
    0:32
  6. 6.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: Tuileries
    1:02
  7. 7.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: Bydlo
    2:39
  8. 8.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
    0:41
  9. 9.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: Ballet of the Chickens in their Shells
    1:15
  10. 10.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: Samuel Goldenberg
    2:24
  11. 11.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: The Market Place at Limoges
    1:28
  12. 12.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: Catacombe
    2:15
  13. 13.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: Cum motuis in lingua mrtua
    2:01
  14. 14.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: The Hut Of Baba Yaga
    3:32
  15. 15.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate of Kiev
    6:11
  16. 16.
    La Valse
    13:11

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