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MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition / Boris Godunov (Stokowski Transcriptions)




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Symphonic transcriptions by Leopold Stokowski

One of the reasons Leopold Stokowski decided to make his own orchestral version of Mussorgsky's Night on Bare Mountain was to get closer to the original, bolder and wilder version, as opposed to Rimsky-Korsakov's cleaner, westernized revision. In fact, Stokowski's version is actually close to Rimsky-Korsakov's in content and form, while faithful to the original Mussorgsky in the orchestration. The 1940 Disney film was a perfect vehicle for Stokowski's grandiose vision of the work. Mussorgsky worked on it in one way or another throughout his short life.

In 1866 it was his first large-scale orchestral work, St John's Night on the Bare Mountain based on Gogol's story St John's Eve (twenty years later Rimsky-Korsakov made his famous revision and orchestration). Mussorgsky had been commissioned to write an opera based on a drama by Mengden, called The Witch, and while he never fulfilled the commission, the motives he sketched for it were used several times, finally as a choral piece in one of his last, unfinished operas, Mlada. This composite project would have employed several composers, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Cui, Minkus and Mussorgsky, but this collaborative effort never quite materialized. But this Witches' Sabbath music haunted Mussorgsky, perhaps because he never heard a performance of his orchestral version during his lifetime. Mussorgsky also used these motives in his last stage work, the comic opera The Fair at Sorochintsï, from 1877.

Stokowski's version of the Khovanshchina fragment transforms it into a moving, heart-breaking statement. His own words, printed in the published score, say it best:


Of all the inspired music of Mussorgsky, this is one of the most eloquent in its intensity of expression. A man is going to his execution. He has fought for freedom - but failed. We hear the harsh tolling of bells, the gradual unfolding of a dark and tragic melody, with under-currents of deep agitated tones, all painted with somber timbres and poignant harmonies.
Disc 1


    St. John's Night on Bald Mountain (arr. L. Stokowski) (more info)
    Performed by: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Composed by: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
    Conducted by: Jose Serebrier

  1. A Night on Bare Mountain (arr. L. Stokowski) - 09:17


    2. Khovanshchina, Act IV: Entr'acte (arr. L. Stokowski) (more info)
    Performed by: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Composed by: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
    Conducted by: Jose Serebrier

  2. Khovanshchina, Act IV: Entr'acte (arr. L. Stokowski) - 05:24


    3. Boris Godunov (more info)
    Performed by: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Composed by: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
    Conducted by: Jose Serebrier

  3. A Symphonic Synthesis (arr. L. Stokowski) - 13:45


    4. Pictures at an Exhibition (trans. L. Stokowski) (more info)
    Performed by: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Composed by: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
    Conducted by: Jose Serebrier

  4. Promenade - 02:03
  5. Gnomus - 02:21
  6. Promenade - 01:09
  7. Il vecchio castello (The Old Castle) - 03:38
  8. Bydlo [A Polish Ox-Wagon] - 02:39
  9. Promenade - 01:02
  10. Ballet de poussins dans leurs coques (Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks) - 01:16
  11. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle - 02:39
  12. Catacombs - Sepulchrum Romanum; Con mortuis in lingua mortua - 03:44
  13. La cabane sur des pattes de poule - Baba Yaga (The Hut on Fowl's Legs) - 02:57
  14. La grande porte de Kiev (The Great Gate of Kiev) - 05:15


    15. Humoresque, Op. 10, No. 2 (trans. L. Stokowski) (more info)
    Performed by: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Composed by: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
    Conducted by: Jose Serebrier

  15. Humoresque, Op. 10, No. 2 (trans. L. Stokowski) - 02:10


    16. Solitude [Again, as before, alone], Op. 73, No. 6 (trans. L. Stokowski) (more info)
    Performed by: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Composed by: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
    Conducted by: Jose Serebrier

  16. Solitude [Again, as before, alone], Op. 73, No. 6 (trans. L. Stokowski) - 03:26


    17. Traditional Slavic Christmas Music (more info)
    Performed by: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Composed by: Leopold Stokowski
    Conducted by: Jose Serebrier

  17. Traditional Slavic Christmas Music - 03:18

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Product Details
 
Composer(s)/ Author(s):
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich; Stokowski, Leopold; Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich

Conductor(s):
Serebrier, Jose

Orchestra(s):
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Label: Naxos Classics
UPC: 747313264520
Item Number: 8557645
Release Date: Aug 26, 2005

 
 
 
 
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