MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition
Night on Bald Mountain
Khovanshchina
BORODIN
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
LEONARD SLATKIN
Mussorgsky was not a skillful writer for the orchestra, and in fact he completed only two orchestral scores in his life - an Intermezzo in modo classico which he dedicated to Borodin in 1867 and an early version of what subsequently became Night on Bald Mountain. That the latter title and Pictures at an Exhibition have not only taken their places in the "standard" orchestral repertory but have become synonymous with orchestral virtuosity of the highest order, is attributable to the response the music drew from two the greatest masters the orchestra has known - Rimsky-Korsakov, who devoted years of concentrated effort to the editing and orchestrating of his friend's operas and other works after Mussorgsky's death in 1881, and Ravel, who undertook his orchestral setting of Mussorgsky's piano suite at the request of Serge Koussevitzky in 1922.
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