It couldn't come more full cirlce: Kandinsky created his only stage production based on Mussorgsky's piano cycle, "Pictures at an Exhibition," inspired by a photo exhibition. Kandinsky's stage designs ...

Ravel’s vivid orchestration of Mussorgsky’s gallery has long eclipsed the piano original in popularity. Mark Pullinger ranges across 10 decades in his search for the finest recording The 1881 portrait ...

Mussorgsky's biggest, most radical piano work is so much better known in Ravel's bespangled orchestration that the raw, muscular intensity of the original is sometimes forgotten. It is a tribute to ...

Valentina Lisitsa – who always brings such wild and passionate playing – presents what she assures us is the world’s first ever truly complete collection of Tchaikovsky’s solo piano works. And it’s a ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Nashville Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin, Conductor Franz Liszt, Composer Peng Peng, Piano Pictures at an Exhibition Nashville Symphony Chorus Modest ...

This week would have been the 128th birthday of one of Russian’s most famous composers, Modest Mussorgsky. Some of you might know him as the composer of Pictures at an Exhibition, but all of you know ...

Most have heard the famous opening of Mussorgsky/Ravel’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” with its regal brass chorale used in films, TV, video games, and even as WWE entrance music. This year, we mark ...

A ‘cradle-to-grave songspiel’ describing the arc of a woman’s life is brilliantly conceived by soprano Booth and pianist Glynn Modest Mussorgsky is indisputably one of the greatest of 19th-century ...

Blessed with a fantastical imagination, yet cursed with a predilection for alcohol, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was the archetypal tortured genius. Mussorgsky was one of music’s great originals.