Composer: Modest Mussorgsky, Maurice Ravel
Orchestra: Les Siècles
Conductor: François-Xavier Roth
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Release: 2020
Size: 409 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Modest Mussorgsky:
Pictures at an Exhibition
01. Promenade I (Orch. Maurice Ravel)
02. 1. Gnomus (Orch. Maurice Ravel)
03. Promenade II (Orch. Maurice Ravel)
04. 2. Il vecchio castello (Orch. Maurice Ravel)
05. Promenade III (Orch. Maurice Ravel)
06. 3. Tuileries [Dispute d’enfants après jeux] (Orch. Maurice Ravel)
07. 4. Bydło (Orch. Maurice Ravel)
08. Promenade IV (Orch. Maurice Ravel)
09. 5. Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques (Orch. Maurice Ravel)
10. 6. Samuel Goldenberg et Schmuÿle (Orch. Maurice Ravel)
11. 7. Limoge, le Marché [la grande nouvelle] (Orch. Maurice Ravel)
12. 8. Catacombæ [Sepulcrum Romanum] (Orch. Maurice Ravel)
13. Cum mortuis in lingua mortua (Orch. Maurice Ravel)
14. 9. La Cabane sur des pattes de poule. Baba-Yaga (Orch. Maurice Ravel)
15. 10. La Grande Porte de Kiev (Orch. Maurice Ravel)
Maurice Ravel:
16. La Valse
Toscanini regarded this orchestration of Pictures At An Exhibition as a genuine treatise on instrumentation, on a par with that of Berlioz: scored for the same instrumental forces as La Valse, Ravel’s version quickly established itself ahead of all the many competing orchestrations of Mussorgsky’s piano suite.
In François-Xavier Roth’s view, La Valse and the Pictures together represent the peak of the composer’s output for the symphony orchestra of his time – that is to say, as the musicians of Les Siècles reconstruct it for us today. What a joy to get back to the original colours of this music.