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- Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
Mercury Living Presence, Mussorgsky/Ravel – Pictures at an Exhibition
Available on vinyl for the first time in decades, the recording that birthed a label: Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, with Rafael Kubelík conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra — the release which led Howard Taubman, chief music critic of The New York Times to write, “One feels one is listening to the living presence of the orchestra".
Tracks
Side A
1 Promenade I
2 Gnomus
3 Promenade II
4 The Old Castle
5 Promenade III
6 The Tuileries Gardens
7 Bydlo
8 Promenade IV
9 Ballet of the Chickens in Their Shells
Side B
1 Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
2 The Market-place at Limoges
3 The Catacombs (Sepulchrum romanum)
4 Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
5 The Hut on Fowl’s Legs (Baba-Yaga)
6 The Great Gate of Kiev
Release date: 26 November, 2021