Album Notes

Total Time: 43:09 minutes
CD "pressed" from master on Professional CD recorders, in sealed jewel case
All arrangements by Clint Jones
All tracks believed humanly playable

PRESENTATION

1 – Intro, Promenade 1, Gnomus (The Gnome) – 5:54 minutes
Begins with a solo piano introduction to “Pictures”. The orchestra then plays Promenade 1, followed by grand piano solo for “The Gnome”.

2 – Promenade 2, Il vecchio castello (The Old Castle) - 6:14 minutes.
Full orchestra plays “Promenade 2”, followed by choir, piano and orchestra for “The Old Castle”.

3 – Promenade 3, Tuileries (Children Quarrelling After Play) - 1:56 minutes.
“Promenade 3” begins with synthesizer then is accompanied by full orchestra, which continues through “Children Quarrelling After Play”.

4 – Bydlo (Cattle) - 3:09 minutes.
“Cattle” is played with grand piano and synthesizer and then played with orchestra.

5 – Promenade 4 - Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques (Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks) - 1:39 minutes.
“Promenade 4” is played with synthesizer and orchestra, followed with full orchestra for “Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks”.

6 – Samuel Goldberg und Schmuÿle - 4:52 minutes.
This is played with grand piano solo and then replayed with string/brass orchestra, choir, organ, and grand piano.

7 – Limoges. Le marchĕ (The Market Place – Important News) - 3:33 minutes.
Opens with grand piano and strings and then mirrored with full orchestra and piano.

8a – Catacombae (Sepulcrum romanum)/Catacombs (A Roman Sepulchre) - 5:35 minutes (total for 8a and 8b).
Catacombs is played with orchestra, choir, organ and grand piano.

8b - Cum mortuis in lingua mortua (With the Dead in a Dead Language).
Cum mortis is played with solo synthesizer/grand piano and then again with orchestra and organ.

9 – Baba Yaga / The Great Gate of Kiev - 10:14 minutes.
Baba Yaga is played throughout with orchestra and piano. The “Great Gate of Kiev” begins with Celeste and then is played throughout with full orchestra, choir, organ and piano.

SOURCES FOR THIS ARRANGEMENT

Orchestral Scores:
“Pictures at an Exhibition”, Conductor’s Score, M. Tushmalov and N. Rimsky-Korsakov. Publisher: Edwin F. Kalmus, Inc.
Mussorgsky-Ravel, “Pictures at an Exhibition”, for Orchestra. Publisher: Ernst Eulenburg Ltd.
Mussorgsky-Ravel, “Pictures at an Exhibition”, full orchestra score. Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes.

Piano Score:
“Pictures at an Exhibition”, Pavel Alexandrovich Lamm, Mussorgsky: Polnoe Sobranie Sochinenii. Public Domain
First scholarly edition solely based on the Author's manuscript. Notes in Russian and French.

COMMENTS

If this is the first time listening to "Pictures", would suggest beginning with Track 7 or 9 as these may be familiar.

Thanks, for dropping by,

Clint Jones