Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte
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Mikhail Tushmalov (ca. 1886; three pictures and four Promenades omitted: recorded by Marc Andrae and the Munich Philharmonic for BASF)
Henry Wood (1915; four Promenades omitted: recorded by Nicholas Braithwaite and the London Philharmonic for Lyrita)
Leo Funtek (1922; all Promenades included: recorded by Leif Segerstam and the Finnish Radio Symphony for BIS; Also on Teldec Laser-disc with Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra)
Maurice Ravel (1922; the fifth Promenade omitted)
Giuseppe Becce (1922; for "salon-orchestra". No Promenades are included at all, and only some of the Pictures.)
Leonidas Leonardi (1924; published by Breitkopf & Härtel; Leonard Slatkin has "revived" a part of the Leonardi version by using the third Promenade and "Tuileries" in his first compendium suite of Pictures at an Exhibition)
Lucien Cailliet (1937: recorded by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra for RCA and reissued on Biddulph)
Leopold Stokowski (1939; third Promenade, "Tuileries", fifth Promenade and "Limoges" omitted. Three recordings conducted by Stokowski himself: with the Philadelphia Orchestra, All-American Youth Orchestra, and New Philharmonia. His arrangement has also been recorded by Matthias Bamert, Jose Serebrier, Oliver Knussen, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, James Sedares and Kazuki Yamada)
Walter Goehr (1942; "Gnomus" omitted; includes a subsidiary part for piano)
Sergei Gorchakov (1954: recorded by Kurt Masur and the London Philharmonic for Teldec; Also recorded with Karl Anton Rickenbacher, conducting the Cracow Radio Symphony, for the RCA Records. A live 1980 performance by the Leningrad Academic Symphony Orchestra under Konstantin Simeonov was recorded by Melodya.)
Nikolai Golovanov (A heavily edited version of Ravel's orchestration in which Golovanov omits all but the first of the Promenades was recorded for Melodya)
Lawrence Leonard (1977; for piano and orchestra; recorded by Tamas Ungar, piano, with Geoffrey Simon and the Philharmonia Orchestra for Cala)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (1982: recorded by Ashkenazy and the Philharmonia Orchestra for Decca/London)
Thomas Wilbrandt (1992)
Émile Naoumoff (ca. 1994, in concerto style with some added music, for piano and orchestra; recorded with Igor Blaschkow, conducting the Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin, for Wergo)
Mekong Delta (1997; for group and orchestra)
Carl Simpson (1997; Promenade IV included in Leonard Slatkin's second compendium suite for Warner Classics and Naxos)
Chao Ching-Wen (2002; for chamber orchestra)
Jason Wright Wingate (2003; orchestra, organ and chorus)
Hidemaro Konoye (date unknown)
Leonard Slatkin Two compendium versions, the second of which he recorded with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms on 1 September 2004; The other recording was with the Nashville Symphony
Clarice Assad (2008, for the New Century Chamber Orchestra)
Václav Smetáček (date unknown; a performance with Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducting the Prague Symphony Orchestra on 28 October 2004 has been issued on the Don Industriale label)
Jukka-Pekka Saraste created a performing edition of his own, combining the orchestrations of Leo Funtek and Sergei Gorchakov; He recorded it with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for Finlandia Records, a division of Warner Music Group)
Aurélien Bello, for large orchestra (2011)
Amadeus Orchestra version, with one picture each provided by Alastair King, Roger May, Tolib Shakhidi, David Butterworth, Philip Mackenzie, Simon Whiteside, Daryl Griffiths, Natalia Villanueva, James McWilliam and Julian Kershaw. (2012, for large orchestra)
Peter Breiner (2012, for large orchestra), recorded by Breiner and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
I've only a few of these, but none even approach the magnificent Ravel orchestration.
As for the original, I wonder how many people would know of its existence, had it not been for the orchestrations?
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