Modest Mussorgsky

Paul Lewis - Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Robert Schumann: Fantasie, Op.17 (2015)

Paul Lewis - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Schumann: Fantasie, Op.17 (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 215 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 150 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC902096 | Time: 01:04:41

On this recording, Paul Lewis performs two major works of the keyboard repertoire. Decidedly programmatic, Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is more commonly heard today in Ravel's orchestral version. However, the original for solo piano is both a technical tour-de-force and a brilliant example of the composer's coloristic gifts. The pairing is Schumann's Fantaisie Op.17, a work whose movements originally had evocative titles (Ruin, Triumphal Arch, Constellation). The 'program' was removed before publication, but the 'pictures' Schumann intended listeners to imagine remain.
Kirill Rosenblad - Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (2020)

Kirill Rosenblad - Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 118 MB | Tracks: 18 | 31:45 min
Style: Classical | Label: Prospero Classical

Modest Mussrogsky hat seinen Klavierzyklus „Bilder einer Ausstellung“ – Erinnerungen an Viktor Hartmann 1874 veröffentlicht. Die einzelnen Sätze beschreiben Gemälde und Zeichnungen seines im Jahr zuvor gestorbenen Freundes Viktor Hartmann, die Mussorgski auf einer Gedächtnisausstellung gesehen hatte. Das Werk entstand auf Anregung eines gemeinsamen Freundes, des Kunstkritikers Wladimir Stassow. Er war auch an der Namensgebung der Stücke beteiligt und ihm wurde der Zyklus gewidmet.
Sergei Leiferkus, Semion Skigin - Modest Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death, The Nursery (1995)

Sergei Leiferkus, Semion Skigin - Modest Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death, The Nursery (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 250 Mb | Total time: 65:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Conifer Classics | # 75605 51229 2 | Recorded: 1993

Sergei Leiferkus has a fine and distinctive baritone, but what makes him a truly exceptional singer is his formidable talent as an actor, and never has this been more persuasively captured on record than here. From his electrifying and chilling interpretation of Songs and Dances of Death, in which, as Death, he assumes four very different guises (vindictive, romantic, seductive and bellicose), to the bright, faux-naïf songs of The Nursery, where, with no sense of awkwardness, he affects an improbably high but convincingly childlike voice, rattling off the silly ‘ta-ta-ta-ta’s of ‘Hobby-Horse’ with aplomb, then slipping seamlessly into the familiar adult tone of the nanny or parent, he demonstrates daunting versatility.
Vladimir & Vovka Ashkenazy - Russian Fantasy: Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov, Glinka, Borodin, Scriabin (2011)

Vladimir & Vovka Ashkenazy - Russian Fantasy (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 212 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 173 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | # 478 2940 DH | Time: 00:59:41

Following their album of French music for two pianos, father and son Vladimir and Vovka Ashkenazy revel in their musical heritage with this dazzling programme by the great composers of Russia, with Rachmaninov's two-piano Suite No.1 at its heart. Three of the works have been arranged by Vovka Ashkenazy himself, including Mussorgsky's Night On The Bald Mountain and the album's virtuosic finale - Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from his opera Prince Igor. His two-piano arrangement of Glinka's lilting Valse-fantaisie is itself based on Sergei Lyapunov's arrangement for four hands. The two works originally written for two pianos are Rachmaninov's poetic Suite no 1, Op. 5 "Fantaisie Tableaux" (which the young composer dedicated to another giant of Russian music - Piotr Tchaikovsky) and the Fantasy in A minor by Rachmaninov's contemporary at the Moscow Conservatoire, Scriabin.
Leonard Slatkin - Mussorgsky:Pictures at an Exhibition,Night on a Bald Mountain&Borodin:In the Steppes of Central Asia(1975)

Leonard Slatkin - Mussorgsky : Pictures at an Exhibition, Night on a Bald Mountain & Borodin : In the Steppes of Central Asia (1975)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88.2 kHz | 1:06:54 | 2.16 Gb
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Scans (*.jpg, 300dpi)

These are very solid performances from Slatkin, but the recording is the star here. The Elite recordings from Aubort and Nickrenz are simply some of the finest analogue (or any) recordings of orchestras in real acoustic spaces ever made. And Mobile Fidelity, as always, has done them justice, in full. The results are startlingly realistic sounding in timbre, coherence, transparency and staging.

Philip Edward Fisher - Piano Works by 'The Mighty Handful' (2011)  Music

Posted by Designol at March 20, 2023
Philip Edward Fisher - Piano Works by 'The Mighty Handful' (2011)

Philip Edward Fisher - Piano Works by 'The Mighty Handful' (2011)
works by Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov and César Cui

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 241 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 195 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10676 | Time: 01:21:07

On his first solo recital disc for Chandos, Philip Edward Fisher performs piano works by members of the so-called ‘Mighty Handful’, a group of five Russian composers – César Cui, Alexander Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov – who in the 1860s banded together in an attempt to create a truly national school of Russian music, free of the perceived stifling influences of Italian opera, German lieder, and other western European forms.
Steven Osborne - Modest Musorgsky: Pictures From an Exhibition; Sergei Prokofiev: Visions Fugitives, Five Sarcasms (2013)

Steven Osborne - Modest Musorgsky: Pictures From an Exhibition;
Sergei Prokofiev: Visions Fugitives, Five Sarcasms (2013)

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 175 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 152 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67896 | Time: 01:05:57

GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER: INSTRUMENTAL AWARD 2013 & BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE RECORDING OF THE MONTH. Steven Osborne has become one of the most valuable pianists recording today. His recent complete Rachmaninov Preludes release was critically acclaimed as the greatest modern version since Ashkenazy. Now he turns to further cornerstones of the Russian repertoire in this recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition (a work which has been in Osborne’s concert repertoire for many years), and two sets of Prokofiev’s miniatures. Musorgsky’s masterpiece is one of the most popular programmatic works of the 19th century. Yet it is also a great pianistic challenge, with the spectacular textures of the climactic movement ‘The Great Gate of Kiev’ requiring the highest technical accomplishments.

Prelude To Khovanshchina - Modest Mussorgsky (Easy Piano)  Sheet music

Posted by Gelsomino at Sept. 30, 2023
Prelude To Khovanshchina - Modest Mussorgsky (Easy Piano)

Prelude To Khovanshchina - Modest Mussorgsky (Easy Piano)
English | 3 pages | PDF | 2.4 MB

Promenade III - Modest Mussorgsky (Easy Piano)  Sheet music

Posted by Gelsomino at Sept. 10, 2023
Promenade III - Modest Mussorgsky (Easy Piano)

Promenade III - Modest Mussorgsky (Easy Piano)
English | 3 pages | PDF | 0.6 MB

«A Night On Bald Mountain Easy Piano Sheet Music» by Modest Mussorgsky  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Gelsomino at July 27, 2021
«A Night On Bald Mountain Easy Piano Sheet Music» by Modest Mussorgsky

«A Night On Bald Mountain Easy Piano Sheet Music» by Modest Mussorgsky
English | EPUB | 0.3 MB