Pictures at an Exhibition - Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

[cloughie]

I was a big ELP fan at the dawn of puberty, but can you honestly listen to their pretentious bombast from back inthe day without cringing?

Not entirely but there was some good stuff in their output and they were in a prog era where pretentiousness and excess reigned and undeniably talented musicians.

[french frank]

One of the CDs in my collection combines the original piano version (Mischa Dichter) with the Ravel orchestration (Rotterdam Philharmonic, Edo de Waart):

I have that on a cassette.

Some years ago a relative/relation gave me a ...strange ... Christmas present. It was a sort of pottery ornament, German, of a kind of rustic cottage whose top could be lifted off for some purpose. It was in a satin-lined presentation box so clearly 'something special', but not quite my taste. It was only after I had it displayed, tactfully, on a shelf for a while that I realised it was The Hut on Hen's Feet so I took the cassette out and kept the two side by side. I'm not sure where the ornament went but I still have the cassette.