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Mussorgsky Pictures Revisited

Kristjan Randalu and Dave Liebman

Composer
Mussorgsky
Released
2020
Label
Budapest Music Center
Forces
Piano, Saxophone
Personnel
Kristjan Randalu and David Liebman

Randalu’s arrangement keeps all five Promenades and lets each return in a different guise; the opening is relatively direct, but the later walks become sites for fresh improvisation.

Liebman’s soprano saxophone can sing through the Old Castle, turn the Unhatched Chicks physical and push the final Great Gate towards something both monumental and spare.

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The classical side contains only the source pieces used on the album, in album order. The jazz side presents the complete album whenever a dependable copy can be embedded.

The originalsMussorgsky · classical source works

One complete performance of Pictures at an Exhibition represents the album, which follows all sixteen movements of the piano original, including the fifth Promenade that Ravel’s orchestration cuts.

Jazzed upKristjan Randalu and Dave Liebman · 2020
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Source works

The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.

  1. Promenade IPictures at an Exhibition: Promenade I
  2. GnomusPictures at an Exhibition: Gnomus
  3. Promenade IIPictures at an Exhibition: Promenade II
  4. Il Vecchio CastelloPictures at an Exhibition: Il vecchio castello
  5. Promenade IIIPictures at an Exhibition: Promenade III
  6. Les TuileriesPictures at an Exhibition: Tuileries
  7. BydloPictures at an Exhibition: Bydło
  8. Promenade IVPictures at an Exhibition: Promenade IV
  9. Ballet Of The Unhatched ChickensPictures at an Exhibition: Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
  10. Samuel Goldenberg And SchmuylePictures at an Exhibition: Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle
  11. Promenade VPictures at an Exhibition: Promenade V
  12. Limoges - The MarketPictures at an Exhibition: Limoges. Le marché
  13. CatacombaePictures at an Exhibition: Catacombae. Sepulcrum romanum
  14. Cum Mortuis In Lingua MortuaPictures at an Exhibition: Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
  15. Baba YagaPictures at an Exhibition: The Hut on Fowl’s Legs (Baba Yaga)
  16. The Heroic GatePictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate of Kiev