MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition, Songs and Dances of Death
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Composer or Director: Modest Mussorgsky
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Mariinsky
Magazine Review Date: 04/2015
Media Format: Super Audio CD
Media Runtime: 69
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: MAR0553
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Pictures at an Exhibition |
Modest Mussorgsky, Composer
Mariinsky Orchestra Modest Mussorgsky, Composer Valery Gergiev, Conductor |
Songs and Dances of Death |
Modest Mussorgsky, Composer
Ferruccio Furlanetto, Bass Mariinsky Orchestra Modest Mussorgsky, Composer Valery Gergiev, Conductor |
(A) Night on the Bare Mountain |
Modest Mussorgsky, Composer
Mariinsky Orchestra Modest Mussorgsky, Composer Valery Gergiev, Conductor |
Author: John Warrack
It seems strange to have chosen an Italian for the quintessentially Russian Songs and Dances of Death but Furnaletto has Russian credentials (as Boris Godunov, no less), and he follows Gergiev in singing a touching lullaby for the dying child; while if the drunken peasant is a litte heavy-heeled with his trepak, Field Marshal Death drills his troops chillingly (the four-language notes do not, culpably, find room for texts and translations). A Night on the Bare Mountain is splendidly macabre, one of the best performances on this rather mixed collection.
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