{"product_id":"mussorgsky-boulton-naxos-great-composers-in-words-music","title":"Mussorgsky \/ Boulton- Naxos - Great Composers In Words \u0026 Music (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction [00:10]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePictures at an Exhibition: IV. Bydlo (excerpt) [00:51]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecalling his time spent in Berlin in the 1830s, the Russian literary critic Pavel Annenkov decla... [02:40]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKamarinskaya (excerpt) [00:55]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf Glinka was the fountainhead of Russian music, his offspring - in a musical sense - included Mi... [04:24]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntermezzo in modo classico (1867 version for piano) (excerpt) [01:31]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eModest Petrovich Mussorgsky was born on 21 March 1839 into a wealthy, land-owning family in the p... [01:49]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePorte-enseigne Polka (Ensign-Polka) (excerpt) [01:08]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter being commissioned an officer in the elite Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Imperial Guards, ... [01:55]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScherzo in C-Sharp Minor (excerpt) [01:14]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnother personal crisis appears to have occurred a couple of years later, in the summer of 1860, ... [02:08]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePictures at an Exhibition: VIII. Catacombae (Sepulcrum romanum) (excerpt) [00:52]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnother extract from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, this a movement titled Catacombs. [01:49]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeminarist (The Seminarist) (excerpt) [01:25]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe following year, 1867, Mussorgsky finished an orchestral project that he seems to have had in ... [01:10]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt. John's Night on Bald Mountain, \"A Night on the Bare Mountain\" (original version) (excerpt) [00:46]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThat Mussorgsky never heard his tone-poem in performance is perhaps not surprising, given the wor... [02:27]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eZhenit'ba (The Marriage), Act I Scene 1: Vot tak nachnyosh etak (Here is how you start) [01:42]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDespite his bold proclamation of his compositional intentions in Marriage, Mussorgsky would go on... [04:15]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBoris Godunov, Prologue Scene 1: Introduction (1869 version) (excerpt) [01:14]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA final passage from Boris Godunov furnishes another example of a folk-inspired musical style. [1:01]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBoris Godunov, Act IV Scene 1: Lejtes', lejtes', slëzy gor'ki (Flow, bitter tears) (1869 version) [01:58]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHere at the end of the opera, Mussorgsky paints a sorrowful picture. [02:58]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKhovanshchina, Act I: Introduction (excerpt) [02:21]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAt the time Mussorgsky was working on Khovanshchina, Boris finally premiered at the Mariinsky. [02:12]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePictures at an Exhibition: Promenade [01:15]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn between the seemingly happenstance occurrences of Mussorgsky's Promenade theme are movements t... [00:45]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePictures at an Exhibition: II. Old Castle (excerpt) [00:48]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYet, as with Boris Godunov, Pictures at an Exhibition features contrasting styles. [00:34]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePictures at an Exhibition: V. Ballet of the Chickens in their Shells [01:14]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1874 was a busy year: besides working on the Pictures suite and Sunless songs, Mussorgsky started... [03:08]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePesni i plyaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death): No.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrepak (arr. E. Denisov for voice and ... [01:54]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMussorgsky started work on his Songs and Dances of Death in the first half of 1875, but the cycle... [02:07]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePesnya Mefistofelya v pogrebke Auerbakha (Mephistopheles's Song in Auerbach's Cellar), \"Song of t... [01:00]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFollowing Mussorgsky's dismissal from government service on 13 January 1880, the composer made fu... [05:48]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePictures at an Exhibition: X. The Great Gate at Kiev (excerpt) [02:07]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46985555083485,"sku":"747313836574","price":138.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4237956-3143568.jpg?v=1762929475","url":"https:\/\/darksiderecords.myshopify.com\/products\/mussorgsky-boulton-naxos-great-composers-in-words-music","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}