Modest Mussorgski

Mussorgsky's 'Bilder einer Ausstellung' hat über ein Jahrhundert hinweg die Vorstellungskraft von Musikern auf der ganzen Welt gefesselt. Robert W. Smith hat ein neues und einzigartiges Arrangement de...

Finale aus 'Bilder einer Ausstellung'

The Russian composer Mussorgsky was for the most part self-taught. His contemporaries were not always enthusiastic about the innovations in his music and accused him of lacking technique. Today, howev...

The symphonic poem Night on a Bald Mountain took its inspiration from a story by the well known Russian writer Nicola Gogol. Mussorgsky took no steps to promote his masterpiece and it was only after h...

The most important work by the Russian composer Modest Moussorgsky (1839-1881) is undoubtedly his masterly opera Boris Godunov. A number of years after the composer's death, this opera was re-orchestr...

World Set (incl. Score)

Mussorgsky wrote 'Pictures at an Exhibition' after visiting an exhibition of paintings by his late friend Viktor Hartmann in 1874. This sixteen part suite is extremely well suited to be performed by a...