"Pictures at an Exhibition (Emerson, Lake & Palmer album) Pictures at an Exhibition is a live album by the English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in November 1971 on Island Records. It is a recording of the band's arrangement of ""Pictures at an Exhibition"" by Modest Mussorgsky, performed at Newcastle City Hall on 26 March 1971. Emerson wished to arrange the piece after seeing an orchestral performance of it several years before. He bought a copy of the score, and pitched the idea to Lake and Palmer, who agreed to adapt it. ""Pictures at an Exhibition"" went"
"Serge Koussevitzky, who had commissioned it, made its first recording with the Boston Symphony, and published the score. So Ormandy asked Lucien Cailliet (1891–1984), the Philadelphia Orchestra's 'house arranger' and a member of its woodwind section, to provide a new orchestration of ""Pictures at an Exhibition"" and he conducted its premiere on 5 February 1937, recording it for RCA Victor later that same year. (It has been reissued on CD by Biddulph.) However, Ormandy eventually returned to the Ravel arrangement and recorded it three times (1953, 1966 and 1973). Among the Ormandy/Philadelphia recordings which are highly regarded include (year of"
"Picture Studies Picture Studies is an orchestral suite by the American composer Adam Schoenberg. The work was commissioned by the Kansas City Symphony and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. It was first performed by the Kansas City Symphony conducted by Michael Stern at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City on February 1, 2013. Schoenberg received the commission for ""Picture Studies"" in November 2011 from the Kansas City Symphony and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, with the request that he write ""a 21st-century ""Pictures at an Exhibition"""" based on pieces from their collection. Schoenberg was immediately taken"
"of whose project Funtek was seemingly unaware. Ravel's orchestration premiered in October 1922, and is now by far the most-performed of the several orchestrations of the suite. In contrast to other orchestrations, Funtek's adheres closely to Mussorgsky's original piano version. Funtek was married to Finnish soprano Ingeborg Liljeblad. He died in Helsinki. Leo Funtek Leo Funtek (August 21, 1885 — January 13, 1965) was a Slovenian violinist, conductor and arranger. He is best known for work as a music professor and for his 1922 arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's piano suite ""Pictures at an Exhibition"". Funtek was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia."
"at from 1939 to 1955, and where he also taught the conducting class from 1950 to 1955. He is credited with the introduction of orchestral training into the conducting class. Funtek's students included Jorma Panula, who himself went to become a leading professor of conducting; as well as Helvi Leiviskä (1902–1982) and Heidi Sundblad-Halme (1903–1973), two of Finland's most prominent female composers; and the composer Usko Meriläinen. As an arranger, Funtek is best known for his orchestral arrangement of ""Pictures at an Exhibition"", which he published in July 1922, just months before an orchestration by the French composer Maurice Ravel,"
"In 2006, Andrej Hoteev realized a project with colored light, pictures and music at the Greater Hall of the Laeiszhalle Hamburg. As soloist accompanied by Hamburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrey Boreyko he presented the authentic colour light score with Clavier à lumières of Alexander Scriabin's """" rediscovered by himself as well as the original colored light and picture scores by Wassily Kandinsky to Mussorgsky's ""Pictures at an Exhibition"". In 2014, as a result of his research, Andrej Hoteev presented his new CD recording of Mussorgsky's ""Pictures at an Exhibition"" after original manuscripts from the Russian National Library of St.Petersburg."
"the premiere. DC 22128 S Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Tushmalov/Rimsky-Korsakov); Scherzo; Intermezzo in modo classico; Ceremonial March. Marc Andreae, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. (Acanta Records, 1974) Mikhail Tushmalov Mikhail Tushmalov ""(Tushmalishvili, Georgian:თუშმალიშვილი)"" (1861 - 1896) was a Russian Georgian opera conductor who held posts in Warsaw and Tiflis (Tbilisi). He died in what is now the nation of Georgia. Tushmalov is most widely discussed today as the first person to have prepared an orchestral version of Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 piano suite ""Pictures at an Exhibition"". Tushmalov's version sets an abridged version of the piece. It may have been completed"
"International Theater in New York she choreographed ""Pictures at an Exhibition"", an 1874 suite of piano pieces by Modest Mussorgsky, later orchestrated by Maurice Ravel, and by Ivan Boutnikov. Mussorgsky wrote no ballet music, but two of his compositions inspired Nijinska: ""Night on Bald Mountain"" (Ballets Russes 1924), and here ""Pictures"". Costumes and decor were by Boris Aronson. Aronson was an apprentice of Aleksandra Ekster, Nijinska's designer in Kiev and Paris. Evidently Nijinska was the first to choreograph ""Pictures"". The next ballet to this music was staged by Erika Hanka at the Vienna State Opera (1947), and then by Lopokov"
"included only the first Promenade and the final two movements from the suite. The Michael Jackson song ""HIStory"" samples a short section of ""The Great Gate of Kiev"", longer version was played during HIStory World Tour finale in 1997. Re-issues of the """" album further changed the sample on the track. A partial listing of orchestral arrangements of ""Pictures at an Exhibition"": A listing of arrangements of ""Pictures at an Exhibition"" for performing ensembles other than orchestra: Pictures at an Exhibition Pictures at an Exhibition (, ""Kartínki s výstavki – Vospominániye o Víktore Gártmane"", ""Pictures from an Exhibition – A"
"Mikhail Tushmalov Mikhail Tushmalov ""(Tushmalishvili, Georgian:თუშმალიშვილი)"" (1861 - 1896) was a Russian Georgian opera conductor who held posts in Warsaw and Tiflis (Tbilisi). He died in what is now the nation of Georgia. Tushmalov is most widely discussed today as the first person to have prepared an orchestral version of Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 piano suite ""Pictures at an Exhibition"". Tushmalov's version sets an abridged version of the piece. It may have been completed as early as 1886, when Tushmalov was a student of Rimsky-Korsakov. Reports circulate that Rimsky-Korsakov sketched the beginning of his own orchestration of Mussorgsky's piece, but abandoned"
"Expo (Magnus Lindberg) EXPO is an orchestral composition by the Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg. It was the first work commissioned by the New York Philharmonic under the conductor Alan Gilbert, and was Lindberg's first commission as the orchestra's composer-in-residence. The piece was first performed on September 16, 2009 at Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, during Alan Gilbert's inaugural concert with the New York Philharmonic. ""EXPO"" was the first newly commissioned work to open the New York Philharmonic's concert season since the premiere of Aaron Copland's ""Connotations"" under Leonard Bernstein on September 23, 1962. ""EXPO"" has a duration of roughly"
"Pictures"". The music also quotes the first and second symphonies, the Violin Concerto, ""Nimrod"" (from the ""Enigma Variations""), ""Rule, Britannia"" and ""La Marseillaise"". However, it is possible to make too much of the self-quotations. Most of the music is original, and Elgar more than does justice to O'Shaughnessy, displaying a perfect ear for the sounds of the chorus and the mezzo-soprano. It was commissioned for, and first performed at, the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival, 1912. Early criticism of the work was directed more at the words than at the music, but it was also dismissed as tawdry and self-centred. It"
"""Trilogy"" album. Emerson indicated in an interview that he based his version of ""Pictures at an Exhibition"" on Mussorgsky's original piano composition, rather than on Maurice Ravel's later orchestration of the work. Following ELP's 1974 tour, the members agreed to put the band on temporary hiatus and pursue individual solo projects. During this time, Emerson composed his ""Piano Concerto No. 1"" and recorded it with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. According to Emerson, he was motivated by critical comments suggesting that he relied upon adapting classical works because he was unable to write his own music, and further motivated by the"
"was unfinished and unperformed when Mussorgsky died, but it was completed by Rimsky-Korsakov and received its premiere in 1886 in Saint Petersburg. This opera, too, was revised by Shostakovich. ""The Fair at Sorochyntsi"", another opera, was left incomplete at his death but a dance excerpt, the Gopak, is frequently performed. Mussorgsky's most imaginative and frequently performed work is the cycle of piano pieces describing paintings in sound called ""Pictures at an Exhibition"". This composition, best known through an orchestral arrangement by Maurice Ravel, was written in commemoration of his friend, the architect Viktor Hartmann. Mussorgsky's single-movement orchestral work ""Night on"
"contemporary music, ensuring well-prepared and good quality performances. Among the well-received premieres were Honegger’s ""Pacific 231"", George Gershwin's ""Second Rhapsody"" and Roussel’s ""Suite in F"". For the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 50th anniversary, he commissioned Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, Copland's ""Ode"", Prokofiev's Symphony No. 4 (which Prokofiev later revised), Paul Hindemith's ""Concert Music for Strings and Brass"", and Stravinsky's ""Symphony of Psalms"", as well as works by Albert Roussel and Howard Hanson. In 1922, Koussevitzky commissioned Maurice Ravel's arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 suite for piano, ""Pictures at an Exhibition"", which was premiered on 19 October that year and quickly"
"to exhibit, working with a variety of visual and performing artists such as RnB artist Lifford Shillingford. and composer Darryl Yokley, providing artwork for the album 'Pictures at an African Exhibition'. released via Truth Revolution Records in early 2018. The album’s title points to its clear inspiration, Modest Mussorgsky’s famed “Pictures at an Exhibition” where Mussorgsky composed music inspired by the artwork of his friend Viktor Hartmann. The artist produced artwork for the album cover and thirteen original pieces to accompany each album track. These featured as part of a live performance and installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art."
"writing."" Expo (Magnus Lindberg) EXPO is an orchestral composition by the Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg. It was the first work commissioned by the New York Philharmonic under the conductor Alan Gilbert, and was Lindberg's first commission as the orchestra's composer-in-residence. The piece was first performed on September 16, 2009 at Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, during Alan Gilbert's inaugural concert with the New York Philharmonic. ""EXPO"" was the first newly commissioned work to open the New York Philharmonic's concert season since the premiere of Aaron Copland's ""Connotations"" under Leonard Bernstein on September 23, 1962. ""EXPO"" has a duration of"
"as Mussorgski's Pictures at an Exhibition, Stravinsky's Firebird, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scherezade and Dvořák's ""Symphony from the New World"". He has recorded for BMG (RCA), Crown Classics, Japan Victor, King Records and Alfa Records. His recordings include 16 CDs with the complete works of Fernando Sor, and a collection of 5 CDs containing J.S. Bach's sonatas and partitas for violin, cello, lute and flute (BWV 995-1013), all which he himself transcribed for the guitar. His recording of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, released in 1981, was awarded the Deutsches Grammophon Award. His transcriptions of orchestral and virtuostic piano music is also considered"
"Farberman, Vincent Persichetti, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Debussy, Bach (as arranged by Stokowski), and Sibelius. Although he officially used the Ravel orchestration of the finale to Mussorgsky's ""Pictures at an Exhibition"" in his 1957 Capitol recording, he did add a few additional percussion instruments to the score. His Capitol recording of Holst's ""The Planets"" was made with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. EMI, which acquired Capitol and Angel Records in the 1950s, has reissued many of Stokowski's Capitol recordings on CD. All of the music that Stokowski conducted in ""Fantasia"" was released on a 3-LP set by Disneyland Records, in the 1957"
"The Concert (Vermeer) The Concert ( 1664) is a painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer which depicts a man and two women performing music. It belonged to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, but was stolen in 1990 and remains missing. On account of this circumstance, it has been the subject of a large number of popular allusions. The picture measures 28.5 by 25.5 inches (72.5 by 64.7 centimetres) and shows three musicians: a young woman sitting at a harpsichord, a man playing the lute, and a woman who is singing. The harpsichord's upturned lid is decorated with an"
"example, that the circle is the most peaceful shape and represents the human soul. These theories are explained in ""Point and Line to Plane"" (see below). Kandinsky's legendary stage design for a performance of Mussorgsky's ""Pictures at an Exhibition"" illustrates his synaesthetic concept of a universal correspondence of forms, colors and musical sounds. In 1928 in the theater of Dessau, Wassily Kandinsky realized the stage production of ""Pictures at an Exhibition"". In 2015 the original designs of the stage elements were animated with modern video technology and synchronized with the music according to the preparatory notes of Kandinsky and the"
"Hungarian Pictures Hungarian Pictures, sometimes also referred to as Hungarian Sketches, Sz. 97, BB 103 () is a suite for orchestra by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók finished in 1931. The suite consists of orchestrations of earlier short pieces for piano composed between 1908 and 1911. The original piano pieces were created during Bartók's journey around Romania and Hungary, when he started collecting and arranging folk music that further transformed his somewhat Lisztian early style into the style he came to develop. Therefore, many of the compositions from this period were either based on folk music or created from scratch with"
"Girl Interrupted at Her Music Girl Interrupted at Her Music is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. It was painted in the baroque style, probably between the years 1658 and 1659, using oil on canvas. Since 1901 it has been in the Frick Collection in New York City. In this painting, Vermeer depicts a young woman at her music with an older gentleman. This painting shows the typical courtship during the 17th century in Europe. It also focuses on the importance of music when it comes to love. The room that they are shown in is one of"
"Music in the Tuileries Music in the Tuileries is an 1862 painting by Édouard Manet. It is jointly owned by the National Gallery, London and The Hugh Lane, Dublin. It currently hangs in the National Gallery in London. The work is an early example of Manet's painterly style, inspired by Frans Hals and Diego Velázquez, and it is a harbinger of his lifelong interest in the subject of leisure. The painting influenced Manet's contemporaries – such as Monet, Renoir and Bazille – to paint similar large groups of people. The painting depicts the gatherings of Parisians at weekly concerts in"
"Images (Debussy compositions for solo piano) Images (usually pronounced in French) are six compositions (two series, books or sets, each consisting of three pieces) for solo piano by Claude Debussy. These are distinct from Debussy's ""Images pour orchestre"". The pieces in the first series were written between 1901 and 1905 and the pieces in the second series were written in 1907. The total run time is approximately 30 minutes. Book 1 or 1st series (L110) Book 2 or 2nd series (L111) Debussy (along with Maurice Ravel) was a leading exponent of the innovative musical language in the late nineteenth century"
"for example the ekphrasis of the Shield of Achilles in Homer and other classical examples were certainly an inspiration for the elaborately decorated large serving dishes in silver or silver-gilt, crowded with complicated scenes in relief, that were produced in 16th century Mannerist metalwork. There are a number of examples of ekphrasis in music, of which the best known is probably ""Pictures at an Exhibition"", a suite in ten movements (plus a recurring, varied Promenade) composed for piano by the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874, and then very popular in various arrangements for orchestra. The suite is based on"
"and the concert stage. In 1974, he composed music for Walter Leyden Brown's production of Herman Melville's ""Pierre, or the Ambiguities"", which was produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in the East Village of Manhattan. Before Hampton's death, Erik Routley, an authority on church music, called Hampton ""the greatest living composer of hymn tunes."" His settings of the Episcopal liturgy are also used in Catholic churches, and his choral works are innovative and challenging pieces of sacred music. Hampton also transcribed music from other sources for the organ. His versions of Modest Mussorgsky's ""Pictures at an Exhibition"" and César"
"British rock band Procol Harum, which was recorded and released commercially as "","" although due to an apparent distaste for rock music, from the start of the project Leonard disowned any association with the performance and went so far as to refuse to have his name listed in the credits. The concert and resulting recording went on to become the most successful live pairing of symphony orchestra and rock music to date and a worldwide best-seller, and even spawned a hit single, ""Conquistador"". In 1977, he arranged Mussorgsky’s ""Pictures at an Exhibition"" for piano and orchestra. In later years, he"
"Theme from Carmen"" and ""The Stars and Stripes Forever"" by John Philip Sousa. The latter became a favorite with audiences, who would anticipate its performance as an encore. Transcriptions aside, Horowitz was not opposed to altering the text of compositions to improve what he considered ""unpianistic"" writing or structural clumsiness. In 1940, with the composer's consent, Horowitz created his own performance edition of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Sonata from the 1913 original and 1931 revised versions, which pianists including Ruth Laredo and Hélène Grimaud have used. He substantially rewrote Mussorgsky's ""Pictures at an Exhibition"" to make the work more effective on"
"serious music go back to the early history of this genre. In particular, music written for the piano has frequently undergone this treatment. ""Pictures at an Exhibition"", a suite of ten piano pieces by Modest Mussorgsky, has been arranged over twenty times, notably by Maurice Ravel. Due to his lack of expertise in orchestration, the American composer George Gershwin had his ""Rhapsody in Blue"" orchestrated and arranged by Ferde Grofé. Popular music recordings often include parts for brass, string, and other instruments that were added by arrangers and not composed by the original songwriters. Popular music arrangements may also be"
"After a two-year break the band released ""Pictures at an Exhibition"" in 1996. The album contained the title piece by classical composer Modest Mussorgski, arranged for the band. The track was included twice; the first 16 tracks are played by the band, while the last 16 tracks include the band and orchestra. Because the album is completely instrumental, Doug is not mentioned on the album. Shortly thereafter a CD-ROM was released including information about Mekong Delta, Modest Mussorgski and various fan-related info. In 1997 and 1998 the first six studio albums were remixed by Erik Adam H. Grösch and Hubert"
"the Netherlands at Concertgebouw Amsterdam and in Germany at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in 1990. Hoteev's first European tour followed in 1993, including cities in Russia, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium and Spain. In the same year, he recorded his first CD in France. In September 1993 Hoteev played the manuscript version of Modest Mussorgsky's ""Pictures at an Exhibition"" for the first time in the UK at the Purcell Room, London. In October 1993 a concert with Hoteev and the Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra was broadcast from the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, presenting a new version of the Piano Concerto"
"2004, in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, Abspannwerk Humboldt. In 1942, he made a new arrangement of Mussorgsky's piano suite ""Pictures at an Exhibition"" with a subsidiary piano part. In 1946, he arranged a number of Mussorgsky's piano pieces into the orchestral suite ""Pictures from the Crimea"". In 1947, Goehr composed the music for the much acclaimed film ""Great Expectations"", directed by David Lean. He wrote several other film scores. He was also well known for conducting film soundtracks, including ""A Canterbury Tale"", for which his friend Allan Gray had composed the score. In 1952 he conducted the first recording of ""L'incoronazione"