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Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (1939)
Promenade
Gnomus
Promenade
II vecchio castello (The Old Castle)
Bydlo (A Polish Ox-Wagon)
Promenade
Ballet de poussins dans leurs coques (Ballet of the Chickens in their Shells)
Samuel Goldberg and Schmuyle
Catacombs - Sepulchrum Romanum; Con mortuis in lingua mortua
La cabane sur des pattes de poule (The Hut on Fowl's Legs)
La grande porte de Kiev (The Great Gate of Kiev)
Transcription by Leopold Stokowski

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
José Serebrier, conductor

Painting by Georges Mazilu

The piano suite Pictures at an Exibition was composed in 1874. There were already several orchestral versions of it by the time. Serge Koussevitzky commissioned Maurice Ravel in 1922. His marvelous orchestration was based on the Rimsky-Korsakov revision of the piano score. which contained errors and omissions. Stokowski felt that Ravel's was a great orchestral work, but not sufficiently Russian. and too subtle to do to justice to Mussorgsky's coarser idiom. Indeed, since then there have been numerous other orchestrations in search of a more Russian approach. Stokowski's version is shorter than Ravel's, because he eliminated two pictures, 'Tuileries' and 'The Market Place at Limoges', presumably because they sounded too French, and/or he thought they were actually written by Rimsky-Korsakov. There is little point in comparing the value of the Ravel and Stokowski orchestrations, as they both serve the work wonderfully, albeit in different ways. I sense that the Stokowski version will gain more devotees as time goes by. Stokowski introduced it with the Philadelphians on 17th November 1939.
José Serebrier