Rockin' Classics
Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five." He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.
Many of his works were inspired by Russian history, Russian folklore, and other national themes. Such works include the opera Boris Godunov, the orchestral tone poem Night on Bald Mountain and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition.
For many years, Mussorgsky's works were mainly known in versions revised or completed by other composers. Many of his most important compositions have posthumously come into their own in their original forms, and some of the original scores are now also available.
Source : Wikipedia
Mussorgsky, c. 1870
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures from an Exhibition – A Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann
Russian: Картинки с выставки – Воспоминание о Викторе Гартмане
Romanised: Kartínki s výstavki – Vospominániye o Víktore Gártmane
Performed by Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Herbert von KarajanPollini.
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Pictures at an Exhibition
From the live album "Pictures at an Exhibiıion"
Released on November 1971.
The album features the Emerson Lake and Palmer's rock adaptation of "Pictures at an Exhibition" performed at Newcastle City Hall on 26 March 1971.
The band's arrangement of the suite uses only four of the ten parts in Mussorgsky's suite, along with the linking "Promenade" sections. The suite was performed live as one continuous piece, with new, group-written sections linking Mussorgsky's original themes.
However, "The Sage", 4th part of the adaptation is a new picture drawn by Lake solely on acoustic guitar, based on the "Solveig's Song" part of "Peer Gynt Suite", in the mood of a medieval minnesang,