English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. Mussorgsky's last opera dramatizes the conspiracy of Prince Khovansky against Tsar Peter the Great, and the epic ends with the exile, murder and suicide of all the power groups of old Russia. When Musorgsky died in 1881, it was unfinished, and Rimsky-Korsakov completed it; Ravel and Stravinsky made another version for Diaghilev in 1911; in 1959 Shostakovich went back to the original and rediscovered a masterpiece. Caryl Emerson offers a provocative reading of Mussorgsky's achievement. Gerard McBurney relates the non-European inspiration in the score to Mussorgsky's conception of history, while Rosamund Bartlett describes the cultural impetus for his historical vision.

Product Description: English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. This famous opera has had a chequered performance history, and Professor Laurel E...read more

Product Description: A study score of the spectacular new setting for wind symphony. Simpson's orchestration is the first one for winds based upon the composer's manuscript instead of the flawed 1886 edition of the piano original. Edited by the eminent American composer of wind music, Alfred Reed (1921-2005)...read more

Product Description: (Schott). An exhibition of pictures by the painter Viktor Hartmann inspired Mussorgsky in 1874 to write Pictures at an Exhibition , a cycle of pieces now regarded as the most significant piano work of this Russian master. This beautiful songbook includes color illustrations, a summary of the work, notes on the composer, and easy piano arrangements...read more

Product Description: Advanced piano solo by Modest Mussorgsky.

Product Description: Titles: No. 1 in E Major * No. 2 in G Minor * No. 3 in G Major * No. 4 in C Major * No. 5 in C Major * No. 6 in F Major * No. 7 in E-Flat Major * No. 8 in C Major * No. 9 in D Minor * No. 10 in C Major * No. 11 in A-Flat Major * No...read more

Product Description: Expertly arranged Piano Duet by Moritz Moszkowski from the Kalmus Edition series. This Piano Duet (1 Piano, 4 Hands) is from the 20th Century and Romantic eras.

Product Description: A brilliant example of Moussorgsky's innovative techniques, this dramatic work was completed and orchestrated by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov after Moussorgsky's death. Full of intense effects, the piece has long been a staple of the orchestral repertoire, particularly after its memorable accompaniment to the Witches' Sabbath sequence of Disney's Fantasia...read more

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Product Description: This favorite piano cycle was composed by Mussorgsky in about 3 weeks, and was inspired by the drawings and watercolors of a his friend, the painter Victor Hartmann. Many changes have been made to the score over the years but this edition presents the work as Mussorgsky originally composed it...read more

Product Description: (Schott). In 1874, Mussorgsky wrote his famous piano cycle inspired by an exhibition of pictures by his friend Viktor Hartmann. The resources of musical realism are used to describe the ten pictures in great detail; the interposed Promenades then reflect the subjective impressions and feelings of the visitor looking at the pictures...read more

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