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...
WEBERN Passacaglia
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 4
DEBUSSY La Soirée dans Grenade
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition
Recorded in stereo in 1962
Total duration: 79:25
The Philadelphia Orchestra
conductor Leopold Stokowski
PROKOFIEV The Love for Three Oranges - three excerpts
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 6
MUSSORGSKY/STOKOWSKI Boris Godunov - Symphonic Synthesis
TCHAIKOVSKY The Tempest, Op. 18; The Storm, Op. 76
PROKOFIEV Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78
MUSSORGSKY/STOKOWSKI Pictures at an Exhibition
Live and broadcast recordings, New York, 1941-43
Total duration: 2hr 33:49
Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano
Westminster Choir
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Leopold Stokowski
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition
PURCELL Suite from Dido and Aeneas
CAILLIET Variations on “Pop! Goes the Weasel”
Works by J. S. BACH and TURINA
Studio recordings, 1936-46
Total duration: 71:13
Eugene Ormandy ∙ Leopold Stokowski
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Fritz Reiner ∙ Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler ∙ Boston “Pops” Orchestra