Mussorgsky / Boulton - Naxos - Great Composers In Words & Music - Music CD

Track Listing

1.1 Introduction [00:10]
1.2 Pictures at an Exhibition: IV. Bydlo (excerpt) [00:51]
1.3 Recalling his time spent in Berlin in the 1830s, the Russian literary critic Pavel Annenkov decla... [02:40]
1.4 Kamarinskaya (excerpt) [00:55]
1.5 If Glinka was the fountainhead of Russian music, his offspring - in a musical sense - included Mi... [04:24]
1.6 Intermezzo in modo classico (1867 version for piano) (excerpt) [01:31]
1.7 Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was born on 21 March 1839 into a wealthy, land-owning family in the p... [01:49]
1.8 Porte-enseigne Polka (Ensign-Polka) (excerpt) [01:08]
1.9 After being commissioned an officer in the elite Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Imperial Guards, ... [01:55]
1.10 Scherzo in C-Sharp Minor (excerpt) [01:14]
1.11 Another personal crisis appears to have occurred a couple of years later, in the summer of 1860, ... [02:08]
1.12 Pictures at an Exhibition: VIII. Catacombae (Sepulcrum romanum) (excerpt) [00:52]
1.13 Another extract from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, this a movement titled Catacombs [01:49]
1.14 Seminarist (The Seminarist) (excerpt) [01:25]
1.15 The following year, 1867, Mussorgsky finished an orchestral project that he seems to have had in ... [01:10]
1.16 St. John's Night on Bald Mountain, "A Night on the Bare Mountain" (original version) (excerpt) [00:46]
1.17 That Mussorgsky never heard his tone-poem in performance is perhaps not surprising, given the wor... [02:27]
1.18 Zhenit'ba (The Marriage), Act I Scene 1: Vot tak nachnyosh etak (Here is how you start) [01:42]
1.19 Despite his bold proclamation of his compositional intentions in Marriage, Mussorgsky would go on... [04:15]
1.20 Boris Godunov, Prologue Scene 1: Introduction (1869 version) (excerpt) [01:14]
1.21 A final passage from Boris Godunov furnishes another example of a folk-inspired musical style [1:01]
1.22 Boris Godunov, Act IV Scene 1: Lejtes', lejtes', slzy gor'ki (Flow, bitter tears) (1869 version) [01:58]
1.23 Here at the end of the opera, Mussorgsky paints a sorrowful picture [02:58]
1.24 Khovanshchina, Act I: Introduction (excerpt) [02:21]
1.25 At the time Mussorgsky was working on Khovanshchina, Boris finally premiered at the Mariinsky [02:12]
1.26 Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade [01:15]
1.27 In between the seemingly happenstance occurrences of Mussorgsky's Promenade theme are movements t... [00:45]
1.28 Pictures at an Exhibition: II. Old Castle (excerpt) [00:48]
1.29 Yet, as with Boris Godunov, Pictures at an Exhibition features contrasting styles [00:34]
1.30 Pictures at an Exhibition: V. Ballet of the Chickens in their Shells [01:14]
1.31 1874 was a busy year: besides working on the Pictures suite and Sunless songs, Mussorgsky started... [03:08]
1.32 Pesni i plyaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death): No. 3. Trepak (arr. E. Denisov for voice and ... [01:54]
1.33 Mussorgsky started work on his Songs and Dances of Death in the first half of 1875, but the cycle... [02:07]
1.34 Pesnya Mefistofelya v pogrebke Auerbakha (Mephistopheles's Song in Auerbach's Cellar), "Song of t... [01:00]
1.35 Following Mussorgsky's dismissal from government service on 13 January 1880, the composer made fu... [05:48]
1.36 Pictures at an Exhibition: X. The Great Gate at Kiev (excerpt) [02:07]