BaL 21.01.12 - Mussorgsky's Pictures from an Exhibition

[Petrushka]

There is/was a recording of the Stokowski version from the Cleveland Orchestra under the unexpected direction of Oliver Knussen.

My own favourites of the Ravel orchestration are LSO/Abbado, Chicago SO/Giulini, and BPO/Karajan all on DG interestingly. The 1966 Karajan still packe quite a punch but if you want a bass drum to blow your windows out or just to really annoy the neighbours you need to get James Levine with the MET Orchestra (on DG again).

Incidentally, I think that the Philharmonia/Ashkenazy listed above as Ravel is, in fact, Ashkenazy's own orchestration.

[MrGongGong]

Isn't the Elgar Howarth transcription for brass ensemble available?

I have the LP if you want to borrow it
I seem to remember really liking it last time I had a functional turntable

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Incidentally, I think that the Philharmonia/Ashkenazy listed above as Ravel is, in fact, Ashkenazy's own orchestration.

That does indeed appear to be the case.

[Gordon]

Isn't the Elgar Howarth transcription for brass ensemble available?

I have a double disc of Philip Jones Brass ensemble "hits" with this on it: Decca 467 746 2 recorded at Kingsway Hall October 24=26th 1977. It does seem to be available for £10.85 at MDT :

http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/pages/search/searchresults.asp?sComposer=Mussorgsky&sGeneralSearchSection=CD&sAdvancedSearch_1=Philip+Jones&sCatalogueNumber=&sAdvancedSearch_2=&sLabel=&sAdvancedSearch_3=&startfrom=1&ctgry=Advanced%2BSearch&serial=12011540838262467&x=93&y=17

A splendid feast of BB music of all sorts and periods:
PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE Greatest Hits
CD1
Byrd The Earle of Oxfords March
Susato Renaissance Suite
Scheidt Battle Suite
Bull Pavane
Bull The King’s Hunting Jig
Anonymous Traditional Greensleeves
Ewald Quintet No. 1 in Bb minor, Op. 5
Jolivet Fanfare “Narcisse”
Bozza Sonatine
Arnold Quintet, Op. 73
Walton Prelude and Fugue from Spitfire
CD2
Copland Fanfare for the Common Man
Arban Etude Characteristique No. 1
Tchaikovsky Waltz from Sleeping Beauty
Maurer Four Pieces for Brass Quintet
Mozart Serenade in G, K. 525 “Eine Kleine”
Joplin Ragtime Dance
Traditional Frere Jacques
Joplin Easy Winners
Debussy Le Petit Negre
Mendelssohn Tarentella, Op. 122
Dvorak Humouresque, Op. 101, No. 7
Hazell Borage
Traditional Tico-Tico
Dukas Fanfare from “La Peri”
Strauss R. Fanfare from “Stadt Wein”
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Decca 2cds 4677462

[Alison]

Here's another for the mix:

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDH88017

[Chris Newman]

I don't suppose that Emerson, Lake and Palmer will get a look in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to_8kZCQalQ

When I was teaching student their version was all the rage, along with Tubular Bells and Queen:

[amateur51]

I don't suppose that Emerson, Lake and Palmer will get a look in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to_8kZCQalQ

When I was teaching student their version was all the rage, along with Tubular Bells and Queen:

HMQ playing Mussorgsky on Tubular Bells? - now there's a thought for Jubilee Year! - with Brian May on guitar and Prince Phil going beresk on drums atop the Palace

Maybe Brian Cox and the Higgs Boson too

[cloughie]

Here's another for the mix:

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDH88017

Or this CACD1012 MUSSOURGSKY-LEONARD Pictures at an Exhibition (PC version) Ungar/PO/Simon

[Chris Newman]

Or this CACD1012 MUSSOURGSKY-LEONARD Pictures at an Exhibition (PC version) Ungar/PO/Simon

The Lawrence Leonard and Caplet versions are very refreshing.

[HighlandDougie]

Re Silvestrione's message (13), there may be no extant recording of Silvestri but the fine playing of his Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra lives on in the Karabits recording which Père Noël kindly left in my Christmas stocking. Most enjoyable it is too (as is the Knussen/Cleveland recording of Stokowski's fine transcription - still not as good as Ravel, though).

[BBMmk2]

Here's another for the mix:

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDH88017

Arthur Wills, eh? A colleague of mine was taught improvisation by him at RAM!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Ravel's orchestration is quite superb (as always), though not particularly Russian.

[cloughie]

Not much to choose from then!

I've recently rediscovered my vinyl collection, and by chance listened to Ansermet and L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - wonderful.

I think this was one of EMG's EES recordings way back in the 60s!

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Re Silvestrione's message (13), there may be no extant recording of Silvestri but the fine playing of his Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra lives on in the Karabits recording which Père Noël kindly left in my Christmas stocking. Most enjoyable it is too (as is the Knussen/Cleveland recording of Stokowski's fine transcription - still not as good as Ravel, though).

I haven't heard their recent Karabits disc, but there's also a very fine Bournemouth SO recording of the Stokowski on Naxos. Indeed, Naxos does the work proud with a splendid recording of the Ravel orchestration from the NSO of Ukraine/ Theodore Kuchar.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I think this was one of EMG's EES recordings way back in the 60s!

No, it's only E.EE in the 1965 volume. No EES version in there at all, or in the '73 and '75.

All their listed recordings are the standard E.EE except Koussevitsky who gets the dreaded 'I' (recording quality 'below standard'/ historical) and zero stars overall...

Anybody want to know all the ** recommendations??? (Ansermet is one of them, on both SXL in '65 and SPA later.)

The EMG Guide, a nice trip down Memory Lane, and still very useful to one boarder at least!