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Title: Naxos - Great Composers in Words & Music
Artist: Nicholas Boulton
Label: Naxos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 747313836574
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023-09-22
Number of Discs: 1

The latest instalment in this popular series focuses on the life and music of Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. Illustrated with some of Mussorgsky's finest works the biographical narrative includes excerpts from Songs and Dances of Death; Boris Godunov; Night on Bald Mountain and Pictures at an Exhibition.

Tracks:
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', slëzy 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]