Composer: Modest Mussorgsky, Igor Stravinsky
Orchestra: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Conductor: Mariss Jansons
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BR Klassik
Catalogue: 900141
Release: 2015
Size: 670 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Tableau I
01. The Shrove-tide Fair
02. Russian Dance
Tableau II
03. Petrushka
Tableau III
04. The Blackamoor
05. Valse
Tableau IV
06. The Shrove-tide Fair Toward Evening
07. Wet-nurses’ Dance
08. Peasant with Bear
09. Gypsies and a Rake Vendor
10. Dance of the Coachmen
11. The Masqueraders
12. The Scuffle. Blackamoor and Petrushka
13. Death of Petrushka
14. Police and the Juggler
15. Apparition of Petrushka’s Double
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. M. Ravel)
16. Promenade I
17. I. The Gnome
18. Promenade II
19. II. The Old Castle
20. Promenade III
21. III. Tuileries
22. IV. Bydło
23. Promenade IV
24. V. Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells
25. VI. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle
26. VII. Limoges. The Market
27. VIII. Catacombae. Sepulchrum Romanum
28. Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua
29. IX. The Hut on Fowl’s Legs [Baba-Yaga]
30. X. The Great Gate of Kiev
Two well-known masterpieces of Russian music complement each other perfectly on the latest CD of Mariss Jansons and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Firstly, Stravinsky’s ballet music “Petrushka” in its 1947 version which, with its smaller orchestra and more prominent piano part (played by Lukas Maria Kuen), is more of an instrumental work, or “a kind of concert piece”; and secondly, Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Originally written in 1874 as a piano cycle, it can be heard here in the colourful, universal and engaging orchestral version of 1922 by Maurice Ravel, which made it world-famous.
The recordings were made in November 2014 (Mussorgsky) and April 2015 (Stravinsky) at concerts in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz and in the Philharmonie im Gasteig.