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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition

Simon Bolivar Youth Symphony Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel - Conductor
Salzburg Festival, 2008

구스타보 두다멜의 열정어린 지휘로 듣는 무소르그스키가 작곡한 프랑스 화가의 죽음과 그의 전시회에서

느낀 그 모든 것을 내포한 6주간에 걸쳐 작곡한 걸작은 속이 다 후련하고 스트레스가 한방에 날아가는

느낌이다.

Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (For Orchestra & Solo Piano) 

Gewandhausorchester Leizig

Igor Markevitch - Conductor

Alexander Warenber - Piano

The drunken sot who glares out at us from Ilya Repin’s celebrated portrait looks more like a tramp than a composer, and Mussorgsky’s music has a similarly uncompromising expressive power, music that seems to work despite rather than ecause of itself. Pianists have wrestled with the unpianistic corners of his most famous work since he composed it in 1874 in memory of his friend, the painter Viktor Hartmann, who had died the previous year.

Mussorgsky portrayed some of Hartmann's pictures in music when they were displayed at an exhibition

in Saint Petersburg. The cycle of ten individual paintings is linked by the famous ‘promenade’,

symbolizing the viewer of the pictures wandering through the exhibition. Hartmann’s bold and puzzling

vignettes find their perfect analogue in Mussorgsky’s pianistic reimagining, but fellow composers could hardly leave the orchestral potential of this often‐awkward music alone. Ravel wasn’t the first to mix his orchestral palette with Mussorgsky’s colours, but his version has justly stood the test of time, and

stands alone for its sensitivity to the pungent, folkloristic flavour of the original.

Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” is one of the most famous and most frequently performed

romantic piano cycles of the entire repertoire. It contains colourful, highly original and gripping musical

depictions of a series of painting by Mussorgsky’s friend Hartmann. This release offers both the original piano version and the Ravel orchestration, filled up with the orchestral “A Night on Bare Mountain” and

the more modest, but no less impressive piano cycle by Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.

00:00:00 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 1
00:01:29 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 1, Gnomus
00:04:04 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 2
00:05:02 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 2, Il vecchio castello
00:08:38 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 3
00:09:06 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 3, Tuileries
00:10:21 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 4, Bydlo
00:13:21 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 4
00:14:06 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 5, Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
00:15:24 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 6, Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
00:18:06 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 7, Limoges. The Market
00:19:29 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 8, Catacombae. Sepulcrum romanum – Con mortuis in lingua mortua
00:23:22 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 9, The Hut on Fowl’s Legs
00:27:08 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 10, The Great Gate of Kiev
00:32:37 Night on Bare Mountain
00:43:01 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 1 - No. 1, Gnomus
00:46:58 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 2 - No. 2, Il vecchio castello
00:52:07 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 3 - No. 3, Tuileries
00:53:38 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 4, Bydlo
00:56:49 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 4 - No. 5, Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
00:58:45 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 6, Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
01:00:38 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 5 - No. 7, Limoges. The Market
01:03:38 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 8, Catacombae. Sepulcrum romanum

            - Con mortuis in lingua mortua

01:07:17 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 9, The Hut on Fowl’s Legs
01:10:22 Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 10, The Great Gate of Kiev
01:15:57 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 1, January. By the Fireside
01:20:47 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 2, February. Shrovetide Festival
01:23:41 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 3, March. Song of the Lark
01:25:21 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 4, April. Snowdrop
01:27:30 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 5, May. White Nights
01:31:44 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 6, June. Barcarolle
01:35:27 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 7, July. Song of the Reaper
01:37:10 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 8, August. Harvest
01:40:18 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 9, September. The Hunt
01:43:14 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 10, October. Autumn Song
01:46:38 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 11, November. Troika
01:49:16 The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 12, December. Yuletide

Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite in ten movements, with interpolated variations on a Promenade theme, composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.

One of Mussorgsky's friends was the artist Viktor Hartmann, who died suddenly in 1873 at the age of 39. Over 400 Hartmann works were exhibited in the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, Russia in

February and March 1874. Mussorgsky lent works from his personal collection to the exhibit and viewed the show in person. Fired by the experience, he composed Pictures at an Exhibition in six weeks.

The music depicts an imaginary tour of an art collection. Titles of individual movements allude to works

by Hartmann.

Mussorgsky based his musical material on drawings and watercolours that Hartmann produced mostly

during the artist's travels abroad. Locales include Poland, France and Italy; the final movement depicts

an architectural design for the capital city of Ukraine. Today most of the pictures from the Hartmann

exhibit are lost, making it impossible to be sure in many cases which Hartmann works Mussorgsky

had in mind.

This video shows the Hartmann drawings and paintings that are likely linked to individual sections

of the suite.