0:00 Promenade 1:39 Gnomus 4:07 Promenade 5:07 The old castle 9:47 Promenade 10:20 Tuileries 11:18 Bydlo 13:58 Promenade 14:46 Ballet of the unhatched chicks 15:59 Two jews - one rich, the other poor 18:16 The market place, Limoges 19:37 The catacombs 22:04 With the dead in a dead language 23:46 The hut on hen's legs 27:09 The great gate of Kiev Jerry the king lawler theme song....
+Jennifer Rummler No not just 3 weeks. He wrote this after the death of a good friend of his who was working on pictures if i am correct. It's a kind of Hommage to him. I am sure he spent more time on it. Anyways happy new year 2016!
+William Griebenow Thanks for pointing that out. How amazing it is when one genius's composition is added to by another's. What a pleasure it is to be able to hear. Gratitude.
Mussorgsky couldn't write music. he played incredibly good piano, and he was a master with the improvisation. His friends helped him writing his pieces for him. Then Ravel came and orchestred this. It stills a masterpiece.
+Inc Rapper Worked my way through college, took engineering, saved my money and, took music appreciation classes after graduation where I met a host of talented successful people..
+Phil DeProtine Im in college now. Went to a concerto that played these pieces and working on going to medical school saving up and meeting a host of talented successful people as well
+Inc Rapper This is lifetime music (rather then noise of the week). The more you learn of its history, the more you will enjoy it. You keep gaining more appreciation of not only the music but also of the times in which it was was written, the life of the composer and his associates (the Russian Five). Give their music a listen too. Their style of minor key composition with an almost Oriental flavor is forever popular and memorable..
Let's just get this over with: [Smug statement about this video criticizing the interpretation or musicians.] [Comparing this video to Kanye West or Justin Beiber and saying how much better and sophisticated we are for listening to it] [11 year old saying they learned this last year] [Old guy writing about how he knew Mussorgsky back in the day.] [Large argument about something that is essentially opinion or preference]
Don't forget Maurice Ravel who orchestrated this marvelous piece of music ! Mussorgsky piano verion is fantastic but what will it be without Ravel ? :)
I actually prefer this over the original piano piece. Don't get me wrong, I love the piano solo, and one day hope to perform part of it at least. But I feel like the whole orchestra better captures the drama and grandeur of the piece. (Especially the Great Gate of Kiev!) My word, I love this arrangement!!
True. With all due respect to the original piano work, Ravel's brilliant orchestral treatment brought out so many more colors and nuances. It also made it more accessible to the public. It is now a standard of the orchestral repertoire, enjoyed by millions for generations.
Heh, because of the editing and the sound of the music, The Hut on Hen's Legs always pops into my mind whenever I see the soccer team name Chicken Inn FC :-p (Obscure, I know, but welcome to my brain XD )
I remember listening to this at Tanglewood in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. I was laying on my back in the grass and looking up at the constellations.
not painting but visual images (his visual images) for me - sometimes I have a feeling that this music can be touched by hand as a canvas painting or sculpture
An exhibition of Hartmann's paintings was put together by several of his friends as a sort of memorial. Mussorgsky wrote the music as a tribute and memorial. Originally it was written for piano. What we are hearing here is an orchestration of Mussorgsky's music. I could be wrong on this last point, but I believe that composer Maurice Ravel was the one who did the adaptation for orchestra.
Just for this to show up first for me: 0:00 Promenade 1:39 Gnomus 4:07 Promenade 5:07 The old castle 9:47 Promenade 10:20 Tuileries 11:18 Bydlo 13:58 Promenade 14:46 Ballet of the unhatched chicks 15:59 Two jews - one rich, the other poor 18:16 The market place, Limoges 19:37 The catacombs 22:04 With the dead in a dead language 23:46 The hut on hen's legs 27:09 The great gate of Kiev
I'm doing a project on Mussorgsky in my High School Music comp class. These songs make me want to cry every time I listen to them. Pictures at an Exhibition Suite and Night on Bald Mountain are my favorite compositions by anyone. (Even though Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov came up with the idea of Pictures at an Exhibition.
me too great musicians i play them loudly and proudly to the horror looks on people's faces as i drive on by what im trying to do is find even just one person to ask me who the hell that music is cause they found it interesting. none yet
One of the best days of my life was when I attended The New York Philharmonic perform this along with a famous children's book illustrator who drew pictures while the music played.
Prof. Walters of Rutgers College introduced me to PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION in 1957 ! He enriched the lives of many students with the joy of CLASSICAL MUSIC. Prof. ....wherever you may be, THANK YOU !
When one listens to original piano version and then the Ravel full orchestral version, it's the same as when Dorothy leaves her home through the front door to step into the colorful Land of Oz. Whutta difference!!!
The grandeur and melody of the Promenade has always touched me in a very emotional way, but not to diminish the whole of the Pictures of an Exhibition, a superb and powerful, melodic, soft and rhythmic piece from start to finish. Thanks for posting!
I haven't listened to this in quite some time. This version is brilliant. Solti and the CSO nail it. The CSO was one of the best orchestras in the world under the direction of Fritz Reiner and with a short pause of about five years, Solti as director continued that success.
The CD of this piece has been stuck inside the car radio for a year. I have probably listened to this about 70+ times. If you played ANY 10 second phrase of this piece, I would instantly recognize Pictures at an Exhibition.
+theewok629 I can usually recognize pieces by a random chord or random 2 notes in it, but only pieces that I've listened to hundreds of times. Other ones it takes me a couple of measures
This is one of my all-time favorite classical pieces, and that says a lot. I absolutely love classical music. I'm a trumpeter, so hearing Bud Herseth play that glorious passage in the beginning, as well as the melody in the Great Gate of Kiev, is just short of a religious experience. I'm only 19, so I never got the opportunity to hear him live. I can't express what I would give to have that opportunity now. This music is some of the most beautiful and deeply expressive music I've ever heard. It's only fitting that this recording was made by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Solti. One of the greatest orchestras ever under one of the greatest maestros ever playing one of the best classical pieces ever. It's a match made in heaven.
cellogirl11RW classical music is literally one of my favorite genres to listen to! I love listening to it, and I love it whenever I get an opportunity to play it. I just find it to be very beautiful. :-)
I first heard the Emerson Lake and Palmer version of this, and I loved it. Needless to say, when I heard the original Murssorgsky's version, I was hooked. I enjoy listening to both versions. Amazing, from start to finish.
Korszakalkotó, grandiózus, örök, a zene olyan magas fokú kifejezőereje, melyben a kép hanggá, a hang lélekrezdüléssé transzformál a rezonancia mágiájával. Soha nem fog létezni olyan világpolitikai éra, amely valaha is felül tudná írni a halhatatlan, igaz művészet erejét! Ez Musszorgszky egyetemes zeneműve. Hálásan köszönöm, hogy hallhattam és láthattam. Szalay Zsuzsánna
Thank you to Sir Georg Solti and the CSO, and reverent remembrance of Mussorgski and his providential friend and flatmate, Rimski-Korsakov - A very inspired performance of an august and uplifting score and original.
I think my favorite is the 4th Promenade. The woodwind section at the beginning of this "movement" is exquisite, and the transition into the Ballet is astounding.
Matheus Doria De Araujo “Sorry my English” is literally the only sentence that isn’t phrased right. If you hadn’t apologized there wouldn’t be anything wrong with your comment lol. Except capitalizing the “I.”
"Gnomus" might be one of my favorite music pieces of all time. It is so unsettling and unique, I adore it. From 3:13 it really feels like falling down a dark, bottomless pit. It scared the living shit out of me as a child. 😂😂
I memorized every note of this when I was 12 (my gateway was the ELP version, of which Ravel approved!). It has remained a part of me ever since. Mussorgsky was truly inspired.
Well if you all love it you should be okay; I find that if one has true passion for what they do then the enjoyment in doing so makes it easier for them to accomplish their tasks. Also good luck.
Part of the Atlanta Symphony performed this at a free concert in 89 i think it was. Loved it ! ! ! I still remember ELP doing this in 77 when i saw them...Great memories as this is one of my favorite pieces!!!
One of my music compositions required for me to play in high school. This was my band class final with all pieces.(except violin) Each musician had to play their part individually in the presence of our band leader/conductor/maestro. This selection just happen to come to my mind today.I believe (recall) the arrangement was different, and not the composer's original composition.
Back in autumn of 2015, I arrived at Ohio State for my first semester of undergrad. In just over a month, I’ll be graduating. My single favorite moment of my entire experience there was, and remains, watching our marching band cover this song live. No, it wasn’t exactly the same, obviously, being crunched for time and comprised entirely of brass and percussion, but it still took my breath away.
I love how Maurice Ravel deviates from the original piano version of the first piece by putting those whimsical interludes in between the grand intro and the main solemn theme.
This is good stuff. I want to thank the person who got me hooked onto classical music, many years ago. Before I was listening this version of Pictures at an Exhibition, I used to love, and still do, Emerson Lake & Palmers version of Pictures at an Exhibition. If you've not listen to ELP's version, then please do listen to it, when you have some down time.
la genialita' di mussorgsky tradotta in quadri di cui l'ascoltatore immagina la trama,e la passeggiata tra un quadro e l'altro esaltata da una melodia sempre uguale eppure diversa ogni volta. semplicemente straordinario, da ascoltare in assoluto relax
Logged in specifically to compliment you on uploading one of the best pieces of classical music on RUclips. Mussorgsky + Ravel + Solti + CSO make for a poetic experience. Starts with an invitational stroll, and ends tremendously. The music of the hen's legs is bewitched like its inspiration Baba Yaga. Lots of great movements. Epic!
The first time i heard this piece was of the version that ELP (emerson lake and palmer) did. i heard it about 18 years ago. and then i looked up to hear the original piano version that mussorgsky wrote and the orchestrated that ravel did, and since then i fell in love with classical music. i hardly listen anymore to ELP or other rock music (though i still think it is good) but my heart has completely taken over by classical music.
Eyal Molchansky How are you ？ Your opinion is right . Genius music is stirring and touching. Give my regards from Japan . so long . ELP is not genius . Mussorgsky is great genius.
I'm studying matematicsand at the same time I'm listening to this wonderful performance. My attention is totally captured by the music. Thank you. Now I switch it off that I could really learn. :)
I have a playlist that I listen to whenever I study with this, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and a few other classical pieces. It is great music to study with!
I'm still in my mother's womb and I love this
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition
Superb Masterpiece !!!!!!!
0:00 Promenade
1:39 Gnomus
4:07 Promenade
5:07 The old castle
9:47 Promenade
10:20 Tuileries
11:18 Bydlo
13:58 Promenade
14:46 Ballet of the unhatched chicks
15:59 Two jews - one rich, the other poor
18:16 The market place, Limoges
19:37 The catacombs
22:04 With the dead in a dead language
23:46 The hut on hen's legs
27:09 The great gate of Kiev Jerry the king lawler theme song....
Thanks😃
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Mussorgsky wrote this over 3 weeks, when all notation was done by hand. What am I doing with my life?
He only write for piano.... Maurice Ravel is the one that orchestrated the piece.
+Jennifer Rummler No not just 3 weeks. He wrote this after the death of a good friend of his who was working on pictures if i am correct. It's a kind of Hommage to him. I am sure he spent more time on it. Anyways happy new year 2016!
+William Griebenow Thanks for pointing that out. How amazing it is when one genius's composition is added to by another's. What a pleasure it is to be able to hear. Gratitude.
+Jennifer Rummler I guess time felt different in these old days back then. no flying, no driving, no commercials, sitcoms, jobs, what so ever
Mussorgsky couldn't write music. he played incredibly good piano, and he was a master with the improvisation. His friends helped him writing his pieces for him. Then Ravel came and orchestred this. It stills a masterpiece.
This was my introduction to classical music seventy years ago! It helped change the life of a Chicago slum kid to one of culture and success.
+Phil DeProtine Truly demonstrates the power of great music.
+Phil DeProtine What do you do that made you successful?
+Inc Rapper Worked my way through college, took engineering, saved my money and, took music appreciation classes after graduation where I met a host of talented successful people..
+Phil DeProtine Im in college now. Went to a concerto that played these pieces and working on going to medical school saving up and meeting a host of talented successful people as well
+Inc Rapper This is lifetime music (rather then noise of the week). The more you learn of its history, the more you will enjoy it. You keep gaining more appreciation of not only the music but also of the times in which it was was written, the life of the composer and his associates (the Russian Five). Give their music a listen too. Their style of minor key composition with an almost Oriental flavor is forever popular and memorable..
The Emerson Lake and Palmer version introduced me to classical music when I was 15. Now a big fan. And much older than 15.
Ron Bissell ELP is introducer，not genius . Mussorgsky is great genius
Worth it
I was honored that I played his music 2 weeks ago. Playing as he wrote.
That opening trumpet solo always bring a smile to my face. The tone, resonance, and vibrato is breathtaking
Completely understand. It doesn’t even sound like
it can be produced by a human being.
Well technically it wasn’t.
Let's just get this over with:
[Smug statement about this video criticizing the interpretation or musicians.]
[Comparing this video to Kanye West or Justin Beiber and saying how much better and sophisticated we are for listening to it]
[11 year old saying they learned this last year]
[Old guy writing about how he knew Mussorgsky back in the day.]
[Large argument about something that is essentially opinion or preference]
Lol the old guy is a new one.
You forgot "Who else listening to this in 2015?!?!".
Is that old man Methuselah? Mussorgsky died in 1881, so...
You forgot the overused copypasta making fun of those people. Aka your cancerous comment.
Toby Auker I wrote it myself; so no linguine in these comments.
Don't forget Maurice Ravel who orchestrated this marvelous piece of music ! Mussorgsky piano verion is fantastic but what will it be without Ravel ? :)
Cyrille-Gauvin Francoeur You are right .
Atta boy, Maurice!
I actually prefer this over the original piano piece. Don't get me wrong, I love the piano solo, and one day hope to perform part of it at least. But I feel like the whole orchestra better captures the drama and grandeur of the piece. (Especially the Great Gate of Kiev!) My word, I love this arrangement!!
True. With all due respect to the original piano work, Ravel's brilliant orchestral treatment brought out so many more colors and nuances. It also made it more accessible to the public. It is now a standard of the orchestral repertoire, enjoyed by millions for generations.
So grateful to the genious of Ravel
The editing at The Hut on Hen's legs cracked me up. 23:46
Haha, same. It's so dramatic.
It's so edgy it could be a table.
DUN DUN
DUNDUNDUN
DUN DURUN
DUNDUNDURUNDURUN
The clock of doom has struck midnight!
Heh, because of the editing and the sound of the music, The Hut on Hen's Legs always pops into my mind whenever I see the soccer team name Chicken Inn FC :-p (Obscure, I know, but welcome to my brain XD )
I remember listening to this at Tanglewood in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. I was laying on my back in the grass and looking up at the constellations.
I absolutely love Mussorgsky's music!
At age 62 with 59 years either training for or making a living from the music of the masters I just had an 'ahhaa' moment. We're cover bands!
So, you started training at 3
That's funny
usandthemx You never know, some musicians start as soon as they can walk. 😅
@@usandthemx There are a lot of people who start that early 😂
"FABULOUS!", this is music. The noise that is currently popular will never compare!
So beautiful heard it the first time when I was 6 years old and love it still
I am choreographing a children's ballet to this based on pictures becoming alive in a gallery..........love this music!!
Dis is proper metal san it's fucking lit as fuck, makes me want to headbang to dem raw strings.
this shit is legit-- I was listening to it for school but damn now I'm bumbin this bitch in the coche.
Can't some one get rid of these perverts off the site, that shit does not shock any more
Jack Fletcher pervers ?!?!?!?!? :Ooooo
Jack Fletcher Haha! You think I'm a pervert why? I am appreciating how raw this music is.
Really Sorry Angus, replied to the wrong post, apologies again
Drum and Bass head here, but absolutely love this piece.
He based music on paintings. Very clever. And very inspirational.
not painting but visual images (his visual images)
for me - sometimes I have a feeling that this music can be touched by hand as a canvas painting or sculpture
My mistake. Still cool, though.
pretty sure this was written in memory of painter viktor hartmann, so you were right the first time
No, this was inspired by 10 paintings from Hartmann which was one of Mussorgsky's deceased friend
An exhibition of Hartmann's paintings was put together by several of his friends as a sort of memorial. Mussorgsky wrote the music as a tribute and memorial. Originally it was written for piano. What we are hearing here is an orchestration of Mussorgsky's music. I could be wrong on this last point, but I believe that composer Maurice Ravel was the one who did the adaptation for orchestra.
Just for this to show up first for me:
0:00 Promenade
1:39 Gnomus
4:07 Promenade
5:07 The old castle
9:47 Promenade
10:20 Tuileries
11:18 Bydlo
13:58 Promenade
14:46 Ballet of the unhatched chicks
15:59 Two jews - one rich, the other poor
18:16 The market place, Limoges
19:37 The catacombs
22:04 With the dead in a dead language
23:46 The hut on hen's legs
27:09 The great gate of Kiev
celtiberian a
celtiberian thanks
thank you very much :)
There is a poor jew?
My favourite part is Promanade
I'm doing a project on Mussorgsky in my High School Music comp class. These songs make me want to cry every time I listen to them. Pictures at an Exhibition Suite and Night on Bald Mountain are my favorite compositions by anyone. (Even though Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov came up with the idea of Pictures at an Exhibition.
Noah Caldon You are gentle
This song is sooooooo grand and just beyond great!
i listened to this the other week at the beach with the dog, how fantastic! 0;-]
+Adam B'stard the dog wasn't too fussed about it though!
The finale still gives me goose bumps. Totally Uplifting! 🎶🎵
I was here because of Emerson, Lake & Palmer... Thanks to them all, especially Keith (RIP).
I´m too!
Me too...
I first heard it on a Tangerine Dream album a long time ago.
me too great musicians i play them loudly and proudly to the horror looks on people's faces as i drive on by what im trying to do is find even just one person to ask me who the hell that music is cause they found it interesting. none yet
I am too
One of the best days of my life was when I attended The New York Philharmonic perform this along with a famous children's book illustrator who drew pictures while the music played.
Prof. Walters of Rutgers College introduced me to PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION in 1957 ! He enriched the lives of many students with the joy of CLASSICAL MUSIC. Prof. ....wherever you may be, THANK YOU !
When one listens to original piano version and then the Ravel full orchestral version, it's the same as when Dorothy leaves her home through the front door to step into the colorful Land of Oz. Whutta difference!!!
Interesting perspective and quite a good comparison. Thank you!
Ever since I learned the original was just piano I've wanted to hear that
You can tell it's good because most of the comments are in different languages.
Да
Class is international.
Lmaooooo
nuqneH 10 DIS ngo' tlhIngan, chay' QaH lo' mughwI' universal DubelmoHchugh jIH
Yup, Greetings from Poland!
Cool Music Rock On!
Una joyita ara disfrutar y hacer volar la imaginación.
The grandeur and melody of the Promenade has always touched me in a very emotional way, but not to diminish the whole of the Pictures of an Exhibition, a superb and powerful, melodic, soft and rhythmic piece from start to finish. Thanks for posting!
I love how Promenade winds throughout the piece tying it into one lovely "exhibit". I too really enjoyed this. Thank you!
Debra King You are ravishing ！
Solti does a wonderful work of conducting this great piece of music by Mussorgsky!
I was very fortunate for playing this masterpiece in my freshman year of high school. going to be a sophomore. I played flute
Still a wonderful and enjoyable masterpiece!
I haven't listened to this in quite some time. This version is brilliant. Solti and the CSO nail it. The CSO was one of the best orchestras in the world under the direction of Fritz Reiner and with a short pause of about five years, Solti as director continued that success.
Csodálatos! Ezerszer hallgatom, akkor is.
Oh, every time crypts give me the chills
16:43
that trumpet solo is awesome! Bud Herseth is one of my favorite trumpet players ever.
Same here! Also, hi Cooper, how’s it going?
Such powerful and moving music! The closing bells in "The Great Gate of Kiev" nearly bring me to tears!
Listening to this music makes me miss playing band and symphony back in high school 😢
Frank Dam I am sorry , higesori(髭剃り)
My favorite piece of music ever! The great Chicago Symphony with Solti conducting - the best!!
Kay Sellman You are ravishing ！
The CD of this piece has been stuck inside the car radio for a year. I have probably listened to this about 70+ times. If you played ANY 10 second phrase of this piece, I would instantly recognize Pictures at an Exhibition.
+jakesterofawesum same with the Scheherazade and the planets
+Spencer Lewinson freaking scheherazade i can recognize in like two measures
+theewok629 I can usually recognize pieces by a random chord or random 2 notes in it, but only pieces that I've listened to hundreds of times. Other ones it takes me a couple of measures
So you've ruined the piece for you by being too lazy to get it out of the car radio. I'm that way too. We're both losers.
It doesn't magically morph into the Best of Queen? Lame. ;)
This is one of my all-time favorite classical pieces, and that says a lot. I absolutely love classical music. I'm a trumpeter, so hearing Bud Herseth play that glorious passage in the beginning, as well as the melody in the Great Gate of Kiev, is just short of a religious experience. I'm only 19, so I never got the opportunity to hear him live. I can't express what I would give to have that opportunity now. This music is some of the most beautiful and deeply expressive music I've ever heard. It's only fitting that this recording was made by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Solti. One of the greatest orchestras ever under one of the greatest maestros ever playing one of the best classical pieces ever. It's a match made in heaven.
I fucking love Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
Katie K It's so encouraging to hear other young people like myself getting this excited about classical music. 😁
It is mostly because i did not listen to radio music, but things my dad put on, like classical, jazz, organ music etc cellogirl11RW
ethics Cool! I got into classical music when I started taking piano lessons and one of my school music teachers recommended a radio station to me.
cellogirl11RW classical music is literally one of my favorite genres to listen to! I love listening to it, and I love it whenever I get an opportunity to play it. I just find it to be very beautiful. :-)
my absolute favorite :)
Fred and Ginger, Solti and the CSO: artistic icons for ever!
I first heard the Emerson Lake and Palmer version of this, and I loved it. Needless to say, when I heard the original Murssorgsky's version, I was hooked. I enjoy listening to both versions. Amazing, from start to finish.
Oh yeah, I came here from ELP too, and we've got the same opinion.
What please is ELP? Thanks
+melissa taylor Emerson Lake and Palmer
Emerson Lake and Palmer created a rock version of this.
Mahesh Varma Great！ you are sagacious ！
einfach wunderbar!
Korszakalkotó, grandiózus, örök, a zene olyan magas fokú kifejezőereje, melyben a kép hanggá, a hang lélekrezdüléssé transzformál a rezonancia mágiájával. Soha nem fog létezni olyan világpolitikai éra, amely valaha is felül tudná írni a halhatatlan, igaz művészet erejét! Ez Musszorgszky egyetemes zeneműve. Hálásan köszönöm, hogy hallhattam és láthattam. Szalay Zsuzsánna
Thank you to Sir Georg Solti and the CSO, and reverent remembrance of Mussorgski and his providential friend and flatmate, Rimski-Korsakov - A very inspired performance of an august and uplifting score and original.
I think my favorite is the 4th Promenade. The woodwind section at the beginning of this "movement" is exquisite, and the transition into the Ballet is astounding.
(Sorry my english) Got here by accident and i have to say that this is the most beautiful piece of music i ever heard.
Look for everything that created Isao Tomita...!
Matheus Doria De Araujo “Sorry my English” is literally the only sentence that isn’t phrased right. If you hadn’t apologized there wouldn’t be anything wrong with your comment lol. Except capitalizing the “I.”
That's pretty good english
Your English is actually quite decent
Why do people apologize for their English before typing out a perfect English sentence?
Beautiful pictures, photos, and Paintings: And Wonderful Mussorgsky Music. Thanks for the Treat.
ah! just gorgeous. best arrangement
"Gnomus" might be one of my favorite music pieces of all time. It is so unsettling and unique, I adore it. From 3:13 it really feels like falling down a dark, bottomless pit. It scared the living shit out of me as a child. 😂😂
This leaves me completely shattered and drained. Spectacular music that is extremely visual.
I memorized every note of this when I was 12 (my gateway was the ELP version, of which Ravel approved!). It has remained a part of me ever since. Mussorgsky was truly inspired.
William Brown ELP is great introducer
THE EPICENTER OF PERFECTION !!! Bud Herseth was the driving force behind Solti and the CSO. Thanks for posting this!
I mainly listen to early 90s Barney theme songs, but I'm really enjoying this great piece of music!
Guess whose band is playing this in February...we're so screwed, but we all love this.
Well if you all love it you should be okay; I find that if one has true passion for what they do then the enjoyment in doing so makes it easier for them to accomplish their tasks. Also good luck.
How did it go
Part of the Atlanta Symphony performed this at a free concert in 89 i think it was. Loved it ! ! ! I still remember ELP doing this in 77 when i saw them...Great memories as this is one of my favorite pieces!!!
royboy56100 ELP is great introducer
One of the greatest of all time !
One of my music compositions required for me to play in high school. This was my band class final with all pieces.(except violin) Each musician had to play their part individually in the presence of our band leader/conductor/maestro. This selection just happen to come to my mind today.I believe (recall) the arrangement was different, and not the composer's original composition.
5:10 onward always sends shivers down my spine. It's so beautiful.
Back in autumn of 2015, I arrived at Ohio State for my first semester of undergrad. In just over a month, I’ll be graduating. My single favorite moment of my entire experience there was, and remains, watching our marching band cover this song live. No, it wasn’t exactly the same, obviously, being crunched for time and comprised entirely of brass and percussion, but it still took my breath away.
All I can say about this piece is I remember conducting class like it was yesterday!! 🎶😊
32:05, the horns leading the harmony down those few tones, through 32:32 - breathtaking passage!!
I love how Maurice Ravel deviates from the original piano version of the first piece by putting those whimsical interludes in between the grand intro and the main solemn theme.
such a brilliant orchestrator
This is good stuff. I want to thank the person who got me hooked onto classical music, many years ago.
Before I was listening this version of Pictures at an Exhibition, I used to love, and still do, Emerson Lake & Palmers version of Pictures at an Exhibition. If you've not listen to ELP's version, then please do listen to it, when you have some down time.
I cant explain. But it always make me very nostalgic since I first heard it 68 years ago... in my dear Havana Cuba
Finishing my homework to the great gate of Kiev. I feel as if I've accomplished something important.
No, that's usually followed by guilt and feelings of inadequacy.
NOBODY CARES!
91 people upvoted.... Someone obviously cares.
You have.
LOL
Thank you Emerson, Lake and Palmer for bringing me here...
¡Glorioso! ¡Muchas felicidades!
Absolutely the BEST RECORDING EVER!!
Bless Ravel for making baritone/euphonium a solo instrument in his arrangement (it happens so seldom in orchestral arrangements of anything).
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition
Bravo !! Thank you
Olga Novakauskiene You are ravishing ！
This rendition of Great Gate actually made me tear up. Beautiful.
la genialita' di mussorgsky tradotta in quadri di cui l'ascoltatore immagina la trama,e la passeggiata tra un quadro e l'altro esaltata da una melodia sempre uguale eppure diversa ogni volta. semplicemente straordinario, da ascoltare in assoluto relax
The old ones are the best. Thanks.
Im going to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra play this in two days!!
How was the concert? What did they play?
Parle à mon cul, ma tête est malade ...
Rebecca Johnson how was the show
Rebecca Johnson You are ravishing ！
How was it 2 years later?
J'aurais aimé dire bravo et merci, à ces deux géants de la musique universelle : Sir Moussorgski et Sir Georg Solti...
Beautiful!
Reminds me of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Logged in specifically to compliment you on uploading one of the best pieces of classical music on RUclips. Mussorgsky + Ravel + Solti + CSO make for a poetic experience. Starts with an invitational stroll, and ends tremendously. The music of the hen's legs is bewitched like its inspiration Baba Yaga. Lots of great movements. Epic!
Bellamente majestuoso. Gracias.
Of the different interpretations of this piece, this Chicago interpretation still remains my favorite.
Mussorsky gave us this, Night on Bald Mountain, Khovanshina, Boris Gudunov, and more. One wonders what he might have written had he not died at 42.
Alan Foster Mussorgsky died at a young age? Very sad.
great music
I'm in the UTSA symphony orchestra and we are playing this piece tonight at 6:30 in the Lila cockerel theater at TMEA. Wish us luck(:
Isao Tomita RIP brought me here, another great composer
The Great Gate of Kieve always gives me chills.......
CanadaguyRudey1 Your feeling is keenly right
ELP does this some justice too!
I remember this composition in junior high school.........
Ive never heard anything like this composer...out of this world
The first time i heard this piece was of the version that ELP (emerson lake and palmer) did. i heard it about 18 years ago. and then i looked up to hear the original piano version that mussorgsky wrote and the orchestrated that ravel did, and since then i fell in love with classical music.
i hardly listen anymore to ELP or other rock music (though i still think it is good) but my heart has completely taken over by classical music.
Eyal Molchansky How are you ？ Your opinion is right . Genius music is stirring and touching. Give my regards from Japan . so long . ELP is not genius . Mussorgsky is great genius.
I'm studying matematicsand at the same time I'm listening to this wonderful performance. My attention is totally captured by the music. Thank you. Now I switch it off that I could really learn. :)
I have a playlist that I listen to whenever I study with this, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and a few other classical pieces. It is great music to study with!
Classical music really puts me in a bubble and helps me focus when I'm tired or in a noisy environment. :)
My school band is doing this , I am excited to be a part of it , we're actually gonna have the Art kids make paintings for our concert.
Been searching for this for 7 years & just found it! Wow!