Description
“Mackerras evokes atmosphere in every piece, with more consciously dramatic attack, more pointing of rhythm, more swagger in the playing. An admirable account with really brilliant and incisive playing-in Gnomus, for instance. The acoustic in general sounds very well and the performance is both imaginative and really well-played.”(Gramophone) (Petrushka) “qualities of confidence and finesse that mark out Mackerras’s work in the studio … he seems to have taken naturally to working at full intensity before the microphones” (Gramophone) “Audio buffs will relish the wide dynamic range of these recordings – made in 8-track sound – a fascinating listening experience.” (classicalcdreview.com)
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Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition [31:44]
- [1] Promenade – Gnomus 3:42
- [2] Promenade – Il Vecchio Castello 5:03
- [3] Promenade – Tuileries – Bydlo 4:16
- [4] Promenade – Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks – Two Jews 4:03
- [5] Limoges Market – Catacombae – Con Mortuis 6:02
- [6] Baba Yaga (Hut on Fowls’ Legs) 3:11
- [7] The Great Gate of Kiev 5:23
- [8] Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina (Prelude) ‘Dawn over the Moscow River’ 5:22
- [9] Part I: The Shrovetide Fair – The Crowds 5:13
- [10] The Charlatan’s Booth – Russian Dance 4:40
- [11] Part II: Petrushka’s Cell 4:11
- [12] Part III: The Moor’s Room – Dance of the Ballerina –
The Ballerina and the Moor 6:49 - [13] Part IV: The Shrovetide Fair (near evening) – Dance of the Wet Nurses
– Dance of the Peasant and the Bear – Dance of the Gypsy Girls 6:13 - [14] Dance of the Coachmen and Grooms – The Masqueraders –
Petrushka’s Death 7:11
Stravinsky: Petrushka [34:20]
