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Russian Treasures

3 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-09-25

Works: Alexander Borodin: Prince Igor; In the steppes of central Asia; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36; Flight of the Bumblebee; Modest Mussorgsky: Night on t...
Performers: Alexeev, Dmitri; Capuçon, Gautier; Dessay, Natalie; Isserlis, Steven; Pletnev, Mikhail [Piano, Conductor]; Pommier, Jean-Bernard; Thibaudet, Jean-Yves [Piano]; Truls Mork, Truls Otterbech
Conductors: Paavo, Järvi; Cluytens, André; Jordan, Armin; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Jansons, Mariss; Gergiev, Valery; Gardiner, John Eliot; Previn, Andre; Muti, Riccardo; Litton, Andrew; Pletnev, Mikhai...

Treasures is a new series of 3-CD sets drawn from the catalogs of Virgin Classics, presenting the best loved and key works of the classical...continue...

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain; Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales / Sinopoli - NY PO

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2012-07-24

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Night on the Bare Mountain; Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Conductors: Sinopoli, Giuseppe
Ensemble: ; New York Philharmonic Orchestra

First Choice features top artists - in the first batch, Claudio Abbado, the Emerson String Quartet, Helene Grimaud, Herbert von Karajan, James Levine, Anna Netrebko,...continue...
Personnel: Ulrich Bastin (arpegina).

Recording information: New York, Manhattan Center (12/1989)....continue...

The Olympic Experience

1 CD / Warner Bros. Import / 2012-06-19

Works: Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Te Deum, H. 146; Edward Elgar: Cockaigne Overture; Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Henry ...
Performers: Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Chance, Michael; Domingo, Placido
Conductors: Lombard, Alain; Martini, Louis; Davis, Andrew; Dohnányi, Christoph von; Santi, Nello; Gardiner, John Eliot; Saraste, Jukka-Pekka; Mehta, Zubin; Mravinsky, Yevgeny; Leppard, Raymond; Harnoncourt,...
Ensemble: ; English Baroque Soloists

Classical Music for Children, Vol. 2 - Debussy, Grieg, Schumann - Funny Stories, Foreigh Lands, Good Night, Sleep Tight

3 CD / Berlin Classics / 2012-06-12

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 9 in E flat major; Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 94 in G major, Hob. 1; Symphony no 45 in F sharp minor, H 1 no 45 "Farewell"; Concerto for Piano in D major; Claude...
Performers: Czapski, Jutta; Erber, Gerhard; Funke, Christian; Oistrakh, Igor [Violin]; Olbertz, Walter; Ousset, Cecile; Pekinel, Guher [Piano]; Pekinel, Suher [Piano]; Pistorius, Andreas; Resick, Georgine; Rosel...
Conductors: Flor, Claus P.; Haenchen, Hartmut; Blomstedt, Herbert; Herbig, Günther; Suitner, Otmar; Klee, Bernhard; Masur, Kurt; Neumann, Václav; Rögner, Heinz; Weigle, Jörg-Peter; Vonk, Hans...

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade; Aram Khachaturian: Gayane / Zdenek Chalabala

2 CD / Supraphon / 2012-05-03

Works: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Aram Khachaturian: Gayane, ballet
Conductors: Chalabala, Zdenek
Ensemble: ; Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Owing in large part to their exotic inspiration, Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade and Aram Khachaturian's Gayane are among the most beautiful and most frequently performed Russian and...continue...
Recording information: Rudolfinum, Prague....continue...

Magical Music Box / Classical Clubhouse

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-04-10

Works: Leopold Mozart: Toy Symphony; Gabriel Pierné: March of the Little Lead Soldiers, for orchestra/piano, Op. 14/6; Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals; Danse macabre in G minor, Op. 4...
Performers: Labèque, Katia; Labèque, Marielle [Piano]; Strauss, Paul
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Mehta, Zubin; Lanchbery, John; Previn, Andre; Blomstedt, Herbert; Boult, Adrian; Frémaux, Louis; Temirkanov, Yuri; Jansons, Mariss

Bringing magic and music together in a fun, interactive collection this compilation encourages children to explore their imaginations, expand their minds with fun facts and...continue...

Mercury Living Presence Collection [51 CDs]

51 CD / Decca / 2012-03-06

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Night on the Bare Mountain; Béla Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106; Hungarian Sketches, for orchestra, Sz. 97; Romanian...
Performers: Bachauer, Gina; Belov, Rudolf; Fischer, Irwin; Glenecke, Thomas; Graham, Allan; Hood, Boyde [Trumpet]; Janis, Byron; Koves, Toni; London Symphony Orchestra; Menuhin, Yehudi; Metzenger, Edward; Miquel...
Conductors: Kubelik, Rafael; Hanson, Howard; Dorati, Antal; Fennell, Frederick; Paray, Paul; Skrowaczewski, Stanislaw; ; Menges, Herbert; Kondrashin, Kirill; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Gnutov, Vitaly; Alessandro, ...
Ensemble: ; Battery B, 2nd New Jersey Light Artillery; Eastman Wind Ensemble

Mercury Living Presence is special in many ways - an American company, from the heyday of classical recording in the U.S. that reproduced some of...continue...
Includes work(s) by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky....continue...

Boris Berezovsky: The Teldec Recordings

10 CD / Teldec / 2012-02-28

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 10; Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 25; Trois nouvelles études, for piano, KK IIb/3, CT. 38-40 (B. 130); Etude for piano no 1 in C major, Op. 10/...
Performers: Berezovsky, Boris [Piano]
Conductors: Wolff, Hugh; Masur, Kurt; Liss, Dmitri; Inbal, Eliahu

Boris Berezovsky has established a great reputation, both as the most powerful of virtuoso pianists and as a musician gifted with a unique insight and...continue...

Tresors de Russie / Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Racmnaninov

3 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2012-02-14

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Night on the Bare Mountain; Hopak; Une larme; Nanny and I (Nyanya i ya), for piano (From Memories of Childhood no 1); Scherzo for Piano in C sharp minor;...
Performers: Engerer, Brigitte; Kogerman, Tiit
Conductors: Gatti, Daniele; Hillier, Paul
Ensemble: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Russian classical music seems to have a dual consciousness: sometimes grave and introspective, sometimes luminous and resolutely forward looking. At root, this sentiment draws on...continue...

Russian Fantasy: Piano Duets by Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff and Glinka / Vladimir and Vovka Ashkenazy

1 CD / Decca / 2012-01-24

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Sergey Rachmaninov: Suite for 2 Pianos no 1, Op. 5 "Fantaisie-tableaux"; Mikhail Glinka: Valse-Fantaisie, for piano in B minor, G. vi193; Alexander Scri...
Performers: Ashkenazy, Vladimir; Ashkenazy, Vovka

Following their album of French music for two pianos, father and son Vladimir and Vovka Ashkenazy revel in their musical heritage with this dazzling programme...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Suffolk (08/07/2011-08/09/2011)....continue...

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2; Mussorgsky: Pictures; Night On Bare Mountain

1 CD / Onyx Classics / 2011-12-13

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 2 in C minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian"; Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Pictures at an exhibition
Conductors: Karabits, Kirill
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Following on the success of their first release for Onyx, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Kirill Karabits turn to music from the Ukraine. The 'Little...continue...
Recording information: The Lighthouse, Pool, Dorset (07/12/2011-07/14/2011); The Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset (07/12/2011-07/14/2011)....continue...

The 50 Darkest Pieces of Classical Music

4 CD / X5 Group / 2011-10-25

Works: Franz Liszt: Totentanz, for piano, S. 525 (LW A62); Nuages gris (Grey clouds); Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker; Swan Lake Suite; Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite no 1; Camille Saint-Saëns...
Performers: Abbuhl, Emanuel; Bavnov, Tomislav; Berhey, Emmy; Collins, Finghin; Fagius, Hans; Feller, Harald; Gillblad, Per-Olof; Muehlen-Wester, Andreas; Ponti, Michael; Pontinen, Roland; Schnorr, Klemens; Stanb...
Conductors: Schmidt-Gertenbach, Volke; Beissel, Heribert; Parry, David; DePreist, James; ; Susskind, Walter; Gál, Tamás; Skrowaczewski, Stanislaw; Segerstam, Leif; Francis, Alun; Peskó, Zoltá...
Ensemble: ; Camerata Antonio Luco; Capella Istropolitana; La Tempesta; Moyzes Quartet

Some of the great classical composers have a dark side and while perhaps hidden in their personal lives, it comes alive in their music. There...continue...

Creepy Classics: Halloween's Greatest Hits

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2011-09-20

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV 565; Charles Gounod: Funeral March of a Marionette, for piano or orchestra in D minor; John Williams: Jaws; Jerry Goldsmith: The Omen; Bernard H...
Performers: Preston, Simon [Conductor/Composer]
Conductors: Gibson, Alexander, Sir; Williams, John; Mauceri, John; Herrmann, Bernard; Levine, James; Dutoit, Charles; Karajan, Herbert von; Sinopoli, Giuseppe

All of the beloved classics that resonate within all of us as the creepiest (yet spooky fun) music we've come to associate with Halloween. This...continue...
Don't expect to hear a version of "Monster Mash" among the 11 tracks on this Halloween-themed set. These are orchestral arrangements of classical pieces that reflect the macabre side of things, includ...continue...

Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2011-04-05

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Night on the Bare Mountain; Benjamin Britten: The Young person's guide to the orchestra
Conductors: Ozawa, Seiji

Tchaikovsky: Overtune Solennelle 1812; March Slav

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2011-04-05

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Op. 49; Marche slave, Op. 31; Suite no 1, Op. 43; Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture, in B minor Op. 26 "Fingal's Cave"; Franz Liszt: Episodes from Lenau's...
Conductors: Reiner, Fritz

Recording information: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, IL....continue...

Fritz Reiner conducts Prokofiev & Mussorgsky / Chicago SO

2 CD / Widescreen / 2011-02-08

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Pictures at an exhibition; Sergey Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60; Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78; Antonin Dvorák: Carnival Overture, Op....
Conductors: Reiner, Fritz

ORIGINALLY RECORDED from 1956-59 by RCA VICTOR...continue...

Berliner Philharmoniker in Japan / Claudio Abbado [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Kultur International Films / 2011-01-25

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Conductors: Abbado, Claudio
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

This performance by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Claudio Abbado was filmed at Suntory Hall in Japan and includes music by Mussorgsky, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky....continue...
Run Time: 86 min.
Region: 1
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM,
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100 Best Children's Classics

6 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-01-11

Works: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee; The Snow Maiden; Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the animals; Danse macabre in G minor, Op. 40; Gioachino Rossini: Guillaume Tell Overture; Ser...
Performers: Brymer, Jack [Clarinet]; Buchbinder, Rudolf [Piano]; Ciccolini, Aldo [Piano]; de los Angeles, Victoria; Fischer, Annie; Kok, Felix; Labèque, Katia; Labèque, Marielle [Piano]; Lympany, M...
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Mehta, Zubin; Muti, Riccardo; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Boult, Adrian; Previn, Andre; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Tortelier, Paul; Ozawa, Seiji; Lysy, Alberto; Jansons, Mariss; Jacquillat,...
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Camerata Lysy Gstaad

Each CD included in this 6-CD set from EMI Classics is inspired by the wonders of childhood. The first CD, CARNIVAL, includes works by Camille...continue...

Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Markevitch

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2011-01-11

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Night on the Bare Mountain
Conductors: Markevitch, Igor

Recording information: Leipzig, Versöhnungskirche (05/1973)....continue...

Moussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition et al. / Gergiev

1 Super Audio CD / Decca Import / 2010-12-28

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Khovanschina; Night on the Bare Mountain; Sorochintsy fair
Conductors: Gergiev, Valery

Recording information: Groáer Saal, Musikverein, Vienna, Austria (2000)....continue...

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor; Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol; Respighi: Pines Rome

2 CD / Widescreen / 2010-12-01

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4 in F minor, Op. 36; Romeo & Juliet; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34; Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Igor Stravinsky: L'ois...
Conductors: Maazel, Lorin

Difficult to find at a budget price, these timeless interpretations by Lorin Maazel leading the Berlin Philharmonic sacrifice neither involvement nor poetry in their dazzling...continue...

100 Best Children's Classics

6 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2010-11-16

Works: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan; Snow Maiden; Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the animals; Danse macabre in G minor, Op. 40; Gioachino Rossini: William Tell; Sergey Prokofiev: ...

An Evening With Renee Fleming / Ion Marin/BPO [Blu-Ray]

1 Blu-Ray Video / EuroArts / 2010-10-26

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Antonín Dvorák: Rusalka, Op 114/B 203; Bedrich Smetana: Dalibor, B 133/T 96; Aram Khachaturian: Spartacus Suite, for orchestra no 2; Richard S...
Performers: Fleming, Renee
Conductors: Marin, Ion
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Recently visitors to the Berlin Philharmonic's Waldbühne concerts have been regaled by some of the greatest opera singers of our age, including such operatic legends...continue...
Run Time: 129 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: Blu-Ray, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM 2.0, DTS HD Master Audio 5.1
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An Evening With Renee Fleming / Ion Marin/BPO [DVD]

1 DVD Video / EuroArts / 2010-10-26

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Antonín Dvorák: Rusalka, Op 114/B 203; Bedrich Smetana: Dalibor, B 133/T 96; Aram Khachaturian: Spartacus Suite, for orchestra no 2; Richard S...
Performers: Fleming, Renee
Conductors: Marin, Ion
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Recently visitors to the Berlin Philharmonic's Waldbühne concerts have been regaled by some of the greatest opera singers of our age, including such operatic legends...continue...
Run Time: 129 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
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Dvorák: Symphony No. 9; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2

2 CD / Testament / 2010-10-12

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Sergey Prokofiev: Concerto for Piano no 2 in G minor, Op. 16; Antonin Dvorák: Symphony no 9 in E minor, Op. 95/B 178 "From the New World"
Performers: Gutierrez, Horacio
Conductors: Tennstedt, Klaus

The acclaimed German conductor Klaus Tennstedt is featured in this fascinating series of live recordings from the Philharmonie in Berlin. All are from the 1980s...continue...
Recording information: Philharmonie, Berlin (03/13/1984)....continue...

In fremden Ländern

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2010-09-14

Works: Edvard Grieg: Troldtog (March of the Dwarfs), lyric piece for orchestra no 4 (orchestration of Op. 54/3); Bedrich Smetana: Vltava (The Moldau), symphonic poem (Má Vlast no 2), JB 1; Franz Jose...
Performers: Ousset, Cecile; Pekinel, Guher [Piano]; Pekinel, Suher [Piano]; Rosel, Peter
Conductors: Suitner, Otmar; Neumann, Václav; Herbig, Günther; Rögner, Heinz; Weigle, Jörg-Peter

Mussorgsky: Pictures Of An Exhibition; Song & Dances Of Death

1 CD / Regis Records / 2010-08-27

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Songs and dances of death; The Capture of Kars (Vzyatiye Karsa), triumphal march for orchestra, edited by Rimsky-Korsakov; Night on the Bare Mountain
Performers: Arkhipova, Irina
Conductors: Svetlanov, Evgeny

Works:
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Songs and Dances of Death; Triumphal March "The Capture of Kars"; Night on Bald Mountain

Artists:
Evgeny Svetlanov/USSR Symphon...continue...

Modest Moussorgski: Piano Works

2 CD / Fuga Libera / 2010-06-08

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Une larme; Impromptu passioné; Rêverie on a theme of V. A. Loginov; Fair Scene from Sorochinskï Fair, for piano, transcribed by Mussorgsky; Au village (In the Vil...
Performers: Ader, Alice

Every disc from Alice Ader holds a special place in the world of piano, and this one is no exception. A summit meeting between a...continue...

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; A Night on Bald Mountain

2 CD / Classic / 2010-06-08

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Night on the Bare Mountain
Conductors: Sargent, Malcolm, Sir

This Everest audiophile classic was recorded by Burt Whyte at London's Walthamstow Assembly Hall using 35mm film. Remastered for Classic Records by Len Horowitz and...continue...
Recording information: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London....continue...

Romantic Russia

1 CD / Lim / 2010-02-16

Works: Mikhail Glinka: Russlan and Ludmilla; Modest Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina; Night on the Bare Mountain; Alexander Borodin: Prince Igor
Conductors: Solti, Sir Georg

Recording information: Kingsway Hall, London, U.K. (02/1966/05/1966)....continue...

Power Of The Orchestra

1 Super Audio CD / APO / 2010-01-12

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Pictures at an exhibition
Conductors: Leibowitz, René

Recorded at Kingsway Hall and engineered by Kenneth Wilkinson, this record couples Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' with 'Night on Bare Mountain' and has long...continue...

Rachmaninov: Etudes Tableaux; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Sa Chen

1 Super Audio CD / PentaTone Classics / 2009-08-25

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: 6 Etudes Tableaux; Etudes-tableaux (9) for Piano, Op. 39; Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Pictures at an exhibition
Performers: Chen, Sa

Ultimate Russian Classics - The Essential Masterpieces

5 CD / Decca / 2009-08-25

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Op. 49; Capriccio italien, Op. 45; Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a; Marche slave, Op. 31; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Alexander Borodin: Prince Igor; Mo...
Performers: Fenyves, Lorand
Conductors: Dutoit, Charles; Ansermet, Ernest; Muti, Riccardo; Marriner, Sir Neville; Dorati, Antal
Ensemble: Detroit Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Montreal Symphony Orchestra; Philadelphia Orchestra; Suisse Romande Orchestra

Summer Night Concert Schoenbrunn 2009 / Barenboim/VPO [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Deutsche Grammophon / 2009-08-25

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade no 13 in G major, K 525 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"; Manuel de Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain; Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Johann Strauss Jr.:...
Conductors: Barenboim, Daniel
Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

On June 4th, 2009, Daniel Barenboim and the Wiener Philharmoniker graced the Viennese public with a free openair concert on the grounds of Schonbrunn Palace....continue...
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, Color
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Classical Music Prep School - Essential Music Everyone Wants to Know

4 CD / Telarc / 2009-08-11

Works: Hildegard von Bingen: O viridissima virga; Anonymous, Cantigas de Santa Maria: Work(s); Anonymous, Worcester Antiphonarium: Salve virgo virginum; Anonymous, Trouvères: Au renouvel; Guillaume Duf...
Performers: Battle, Kathleen; Bishop, Michael [Engineer]; Brewer, Christine; Cheng, Gloria; Chertock, Michael; Dinnerstein, Simone [Piano]; Gutierrez, Horacio; Kammen, Shira; O'Conor, John; Russell, David [Guita...
Conductors: ; MacKenzie, Norman; Pearlman, Martin; Ozawa, Seiji; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Kunzel, Erich; Dohnányi, Christoph von; Slatkin, Leonard; Maazel, Lorin; Bishop, Michael; Levi, Yoel; Shaw, Robert; ...
Ensemble: ; Cleveland Quartet; Empire Brass & Friends; Ensemble Galilei; Ensemble P.A.N. [Project Ars Nova]

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; A Night on the Bare Mountain; Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia

1 CD / Supraphon Import / 2009-06-30

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Night on the Bare Mountain; Alexander Borodin: In the steppes of central Asia; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34
Conductors: Ancerl, Karel

Just Classics 2: The Gold Collection

1 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2009-05-19

Works: Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the common man; Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Antonin Dvorák: Slavonic Dances (8) for Orchestra, Op. 46/B 83; Ottorino Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dance...
Performers: Campbell, Fiona; Macliver, Sara
Conductors: Northey, Benjamin

Damien beaumont's popular program 'just classics' is a mainstay of abc classic fm. Following the success of the first just classics album, here is another...continue...

Ultimate Classical Spectacular - The Essential Masterpieces

5 CD / Decca / 2009-04-21

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Op. 49; Capriccio italien, Op. 45; Mily Balakirev: Oriental Fantasy for Piano, Op. 18 "Islamey"; Alexander Borodin: Prince Igor; In the steppes of central As...
Performers: Loveday, Alan; Warren-Green, Christopher [Violin/Conductor]
Conductors: Salonen, Esa-Pekka; Marriner, Sir Neville; Dutoit, Charles; Ashkenazy, Vladimir

Magic! - Wagner, Mussorgsky, et al / Peter Richard Conte

1 CD / Gothic Records / 2009-01-01

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Paul Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'apprenti sorcier), symphonic scherzo for orchestra; Otto Nicolai: Overture to...
Performers: Conte, Peter Richard

This was the best selling organ CD of 1999, and set the stage for Conte's performances at the American Guild of Organist's national convention in...continue...

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition, Night on the Bare Mountain, etc / Ponti, et al

1 Super Audio CD / PentaTone Classics / 2008-11-25

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Night on the Bare Mountain; Sorochinskï Fair; Khovanshchina
Conductors: Ponti, Carlo
Ensemble: Russian National Orchestra

Toon Time - Classical Music from Classic Cartoons

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-11-25

Works: Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances (21) for orchestra, WoO 1; Dmitry Kabalevsky: Comedian Galop; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Sleepin...

The 'Toon Time' collection includes well-known melodies from everyone's favorite animated shows. From "Flight of the Bumble-Bee" to "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," 'Toon Time' brings the...continue...

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, A Night on the Bare Mountain / Dohnányi, Cleveland Orchestra

1 CD / Apex / 2008-11-18

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel; Night on the Bare Mountain
Conductors: Dohnányi, Christoph von

Legendary Masterworks Recordings - Haydn, Mozart, Berlioz, Liszt, etc / Dresdner Philharmonie, et al

8 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-10-14

Works: Antonin Dvorák: Symphony no 7 in D minor, Op. 70/B 141; Johannes Brahms: Serenade for orchestra no 2 in A major, Op. 16; Aram Khachaturian: Concerto for Piano in D flat major; Gerhard Rosenfeld:...
Performers: Freire, Nelson [Piano]; Pokorna, Mirka; Schmahl, Gustav; Schmidt, Annerose
Conductors: Bongartz, Heinz; Forster, Horst; Masur, Kurt; Herbig, Günther; Kegel, Herbert; Weigle, Jörg-Peter; Plasson, Michel
Ensemble: ; Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra - Legendary Masterwork Recordings

8 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-10-14

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony no 3 in A minor, Op. 56 "Scottish"; Concerto for Violin in D minor; Anton Bruckner: Symphony no 6 in A major, WAB 106; Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Night ...
Performers: Adam, Theo; Hiltawsky, Kurt; Lang, Rosemarie; Moser, Edda; Oistrakh, Igor [Violin]; Schreier, Peter; Stöckigt, Siegfried; Zechlin, Dieter
Conductors: Konwitschny, Franz; Bongartz, Heinz; Markevitch, Igor; Sanderling, Kurt; Neumann, Václav; Masur, Kurt
Ensemble: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Night on Bald Mountain, etc / Paavo Järvi, Cincinnati SO

1 CD / Telarc / 2008-09-23

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Pictures at an exhibition; Khovanschina
Conductors: Paavo, Järvi

"[Jarvi] introduces a little twist in Ravel's orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition in that the original French published edition of 1929 is consulted for...continue...

4 Elements - Classical Music of Fire, Water, Air and Earth

4 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-09-09

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in G minor, Op. 8 no 2/RV 315 "L'estate"; Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 59 in A major, H 1 no 59 "Fire"; Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14; Georges ...
Performers: Adam, Theo; Kootz, Gunter; Laforet, Marc; Ousset, Cecile; Pistorius, Andreas; Rosel, Peter; Rucker, Fritz; Schmahl, Gustav; Zechlin, Dieter; Zehetmair, Thomas [Conductor/Violin]; Zoff, Jutta
Conductors: ; Haenchen, Hartmut; Kegel, Herbert; Weigle, Jörg-Peter; Neumann, Václav; Kempe, Rudolf; Suitner, Otmar; Rögner, Heinz; Berglund, Paavo; Koch, Helmut; Blomstedt, Herbert; Wiesenhutter,...
Ensemble: ; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra; C.P.E. Bach Chamber Orchestra; Camerata Bern; Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra; Dresden Staatskapelle; Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra

Basics - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Rösel, Markevitch, et al

2 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-09-09

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Scherzo for Piano in C sharp minor; Ein Kinderscherz; Une larme; Intermezzo for Piano in B minor "in modo classico"; Hopak; Night on the Bare Mountain
Performers: Rosel, Peter
Conductors: Markevitch, Igor
Ensemble: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

The successful 'Basics' series is expanding its range with 2-CD sets: repertory classics in magnificent recordings that should be in every CD collection - at...continue...

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, etc / Markevitch

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Night on the Bare Mountain
Conductors: Markevitch, Igor
Ensemble: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

All the way back in 1953 Igor Markevitch (1912-1983) recorded a classic performance of Pictures with the Berlin Philharmonic. Twenty years later he returned to...continue...

Russian Orchestral Music - Mussorgsky, etc / Weigle, et al

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Mikhail Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34; Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet; Alexander Borodin: ...
Performers: Bromsel, Ralf-Carsten; Hofmann, Karin; Koch, Nora; Lochner, Hans-Detlef
Conductors: Weigle, Jörg-Peter

At 35 Jorg-Peter Weigle became Principal Conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic and later the Stuttgart Philharmonic. He and the Dresden Orchestra give brilliant performances on...continue...

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, etc / Simon, et al

1 CD / Cala Records / 2008-07-01

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for piano & orchestra, orchestrated by Lawrence Le; Khovanschina; Gopak (Hopak), for orchestra, transcribed by Liadov from th...
Performers: Ungar, Tamas
Conductors: Simon, Geoffrey
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra