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The latest instalment in this popular series focuses on the life and music of Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. Illustrated with some of Mussorgsky's finest works the biographical narrative includes excerpts from Songs and Dances of Death; Boris Godunov; Night on Bald Mountain and Pictures at an Exhibition. Album Tracks 1. Introduction [00 10] 2. Pictures at An Exhibition IV. Bydlo (Excerpt) [00 51] 3. Recalling His Time Spent in Berlin in the 1830S, the Russian Literary Critic Pavel Annenkov Decla... [02 40] 4. Kamarinskaya (Excerpt) [00 55] 5. If Glinka Was the Fountainhead of Russian Music, His Offspring - in a Musical Sense - Included Mi... [04 24] 6. Intermezzo in Modo Classico (1867 Version for Piano) (Excerpt) [01 31] 7. Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Was Born on 21 March 1839 Into a Wealthy, Land-Owning Family in the P... [01 49] 8. Porte-Enseigne Polka (Ensign-Polka) (Excerpt) [01 08] 9. After Being Commissioned An Officer in the Elite Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Imperial Guards,... [01 55] 10. Scherzo in C-Sharp minor (Excerpt) [01 14] 11. Another Personal Crisis Appears to Have Occurred a Couple of Years Later, in the Summer of 1860,... [02 08] 12. Pictures at An Exhibition VIII. Catacombae (Sepulcrum Romanum) (Excerpt) [00 52] 13. Another Extract from Mussorgsky's Pictures at An Exhibition, This a Movement Titled Catacombs... [01 49] 14. Seminarist (The Seminarist) (Excerpt) [01 25] 15. The Following Year, 1867, Mussorgsky Finished An Orchestral Project That He Seems to Have Had in... [01 10] 16. St. John's Night on Bald Mountain, InchA Night on the Bare MountainInch (Original Version) (Excerpt) [00 46] 17. That Mussorgsky Never Heard His Tone-Poem in Performance Is Perhaps Not Surprising, Given the Wor... [02 27] 18. Zhenit'ba (The Marriage), Act I Scene 1 Vot Tak Nachnyosh Etak (Here Is How You Start) [01 42]
