MOUSSORGSKY/Maazel - - "Pictures At An Exhibition" - Telarc 1979 TAS List

"Mussorgsky composed this music in June 1874. One of Mussorgsky's few unalienated friends was the St. Petersburg artist, architect and stage designer Viktor Hartmann (1834-1873), who lived even fewer years than the composer's 42. Vladimir Stasov, librarian and critic, arranged a memorial retrospective of some 400 Hartmann drawings and watercolors. Deeply moved, Mussorgsky wrote a piano suite, one of the few works he actually completed, apart from a trove of songs. Rimsky-Korsakov edited it for publication in 1886, albeit less radically than his gutted versions of Boris Godunov, Khovanshchina, and A Night on Bare Mountain. By 1891, one Mikhail Tushmalov had already orchestrated seven of the ten Pictures. In the century since, there have been more than a dozen other versions, but none that challenge the finesse, subtlety, and cumulative impact of Maurice Ravel's (1875-1937), made for Sergey Koussevitzky, who led not only the world and American premieres (the latter with his Boston Symphony in 1926), but the first recording in 1930." - AMG.

"The sound is among the most opulent I have ever heard...'Night on Bald Mountain' is as good as they come...it is highly recommended." óSensible Sound

This is a Telarc Digital recording from 1979.
Mastered by R. Ludwig and pressed in Germany.

The record is Mint.
The jacket is NM.

This LP was purchased new and played once and then cleaned on a VPI machine. It was played a second time while recording to tape and then stored.

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