Mussorgsky
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) was a Russian composer and member of the group known as The Five. Born into a landowning family, he served briefly in the military before devoting himself increasingly to music.
His works include the opera Boris Godunov, the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition, the orchestral tone poem Night on Bald Mountain and the song cycles Songs and Dances of Death and The Nu...
Concert of 2 April 1948
Music by Beethoven, Schubert, Mussorgsky, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Scarlatti, Mozart, Sousa
Total duration: 79:27 (CD) & 91:23 (Download, includes encores)
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
MUSSORGSKY Night on the Bare Mountain
BORODIN Polovtsian Dances
Studio recordings, 1955 & 1958
Total duration: 2hr 6:09
conductor Samo Hubad
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Der Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna
conducted by Willem van Otterloo
MOZART Sinfonia Concertante
HAYDN Symphony No. 91
MUSSORGSKY A Night on the Bare Mountain
plus other short works
Recorded in 1937 and 1938
Total duration: 62:16
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor Viscount Hidemaro Konoye
R. STRAUSS Don Juan
MUSSORGSKY Prelude to Kovanshchina
TCHAIKOVSKY Francesca di Rimini
Live concert recording 1946
Total duration: 50:48
Boston Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Sergei Koussevitzky
TCHAIKOVSKY Francesca da Rimini*
SHOSTAKOVICH Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - 2 Arias
MUSSORGSKY Six Songs
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
Live stereo concert recording, 1962
*Download only - not on CD
Total duration: 91:42 (download); 67:42 (CD)
Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano
London Symphony Orchestra
Igor Markevitch, conductor
Acoustic studio recordings, 1919-1924
Total duration: 64:44
The Philadelphia Orchestra
