Just because any record company can release these recordings does not mean that just any record company should release these recordings. After all, these are the Sergey Koussevitzky-Boston Symphony Orchestra recordings of Mussorgsky, the 1930 recording of the orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition Koussevitzky commissioned from Ravel, and the 1944 recording of Night on the Bare Mountain in the Rimsky-Korsakov orchestration. These are truly the classic recordings of the works and every subsequent recording is made ...
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Just because any record company can release these recordings does not mean that just any record company should release these recordings. After all, these are the Sergey Koussevitzky-Boston Symphony Orchestra recordings of Mussorgsky, the 1930 recording of the orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition Koussevitzky commissioned from Ravel, and the 1944 recording of Night on the Bare Mountain in the Rimsky-Korsakov orchestration. These are truly the classic recordings of the works and every subsequent recording is made either in agreement with or in contradiction to these recordings. The bright and fantastic colors of Ravel's orchestration illuminate Mussorgsky's eccentric melodies and compulsive rhythms and Koussevitzky incarnates it all in the burnished virtuosity of the Boston Symphony at the first peak of its career. And the dark colors of Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestration of Mussorgsky's debauched melodies and orgasmic rhythms and Koussevitzky embodies it all in the blood-soaked colors of the...
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Add this copy of Modest Mussorgsky to cart. $8.49, very good condition, Sold by Music Fiendz rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from South Hackensack, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Centurion Classics.