Pictures at an Exhibition

Album by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky & Nikolai Miassojedov & Wolga Virtuosos & Jouri Kostew

Pictures at an Exhibition is a piano suite by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky, composed in 1874. It employs vivid pictorial motifs, modal harmonies and contrasting tempi to evoke the experience of moving through an art gallery, and it occupies a significant place in Mussorgsky's late output and in the broader piano and orchestral repertoire.

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  1. 1.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: I. Promenade
    1:33
  2. 2.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: II. Gnome
    3:05
  3. 3.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: III. Promenade
    0:52
  4. 4.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: IV. The Old Castle
    4:37
  5. 5.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: V. Promenade
    0:32
  6. 6.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: VI. The Tuileries
    1:05
  7. 7.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: VII. Bydlo
    2:43
  8. 8.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: VIII. Promenade
    0:52
  9. 9.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: IX. Ballet of Chicken's in Their Egg-Shells
    1:15
  10. 10.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: X. Two Jews, One Rich, the Other Poor
    2:13
  11. 11.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: XI. Promenade
    1:33
  12. 12.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: XII. Limoges. Market
    1:22
  13. 13.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: XIII. Catacombs
    2:11
  14. 14.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: XIV. Con mortuis in lingua mortua
    2:33
  15. 15.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: XV. The Hut on Hen's Legs
    3:47
  16. 16.
    Pictures at an Exhibition: XVI. The Great Gate of Kiev
    5:27
  17. 17.
    Songs and Dances of Death: I. Lullaby
    4:23
  18. 18.
    Songs and Dances of Death: II. Serenade
    4:07
  19. 19.
    Songs and Dances of Death: III. Trepak
    4:02
  20. 20.
    Songs and Dances of Death: IV. The Army Leader
    4:52

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