Carlo Maria Giulini, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
MUSSORGSKY - Pictures At An Exhibition / PROKOFIEV

PRE-ORDER: EXPECTED TO SHIP 05 DECEMBER

An art exhibition in honor of his friend, the painter Victor Hartmann, inspired Mussorgsky to compose his piano cycle in 1874, the idea of which is as simple as it is obvious: a kind of 'first-person narrator' wanders through the gallery and looks at ten paintings in great detail. Maurice Ravel orchestrated them for orchestra in 1922. Giulini's performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is widely regarded as a reference recording. Prokofiev wrote his first symphony in the middle of the First World War. In sound and form, it differs from other works by the composer. No gigantic late romantic orchestra, no performance time of an hour, but a classical orchestra, and only fifteen minutes are needed for his 'Symphony No. 1', which was written in 1916/17.

Track Listing:
1. Pictures at an exhibition, Promenade 1 (Modest Mussorgsky) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. Pictures at an exhibition, Gnomus (Modest Mussorgsky) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
3. Pictures at an exhibition, Promenade 2 (Modest Mussorgsky) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. Pictures at an exhibition, The Old Castle (Modest Mussorgsky) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
5. Pictures at an exhibition, Promenade 3 (Modest Mussorgsky) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Pictures at an exhibition, Tuileries (Modest Mussorgsky) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
7. Pictures at an exhibition, Bydlo (The Oxcart) (Modest Mussorgsky) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Pictures at an exhibition, Promenade 4 (Modest Mussorgsky) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
9. Pictures at an exhibition, Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (Modest Mussorgsky) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Pictures at an exhibition, Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle (Modest Mussorgsky) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11. Pictures at an exhibition, The Market at Limoges (Modest Mussorgsky) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
12. Pictures at an exhibition, Catacombae (Sepulchrum Romanum) (Modest Mussorgsky) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
13. Pictures at an exhibition, Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua (Modest Mussorgsky) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
14. Pictures at an exhibition, The Hut On Fowl's Legs (Baba Yaga) (Modest Mussorgsky) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
15. Pictures at an exhibition, The Great Gates of Kyiv (Modest Mussorgsky) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
16. Symphony no. 1 in D major, op. 25, 'Classical', I. Allegro (Sergei Prokofiev) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
17. Symphony no. 1 in D major, op. 25, 'Classical', II. Larghetto (Sergei Prokofiev) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
18. Symphony no. 1 in D major, op. 25, 'Classical', III. Gavotte. Non Troppo Allegro (Sergei Prokofiev) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
19. Symphony no. 1 in D major, op. 25, 'Classical', IV. Finale. Molto Vivace (Sergei Prokofiev) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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