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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

Composer of the Week: Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881): Episode 5: Twice-Hatched Chicks; Mussorgsky arranged

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

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Episode 5: Twice-Hatched Chicks; Mussorgsky arranged

Twice-Hatched Chicks; Mussorgsky arranged

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Twice-Hatched Chicks; Mussorgsky arranged

A pair of masterpieces refracted through the eyes of two very different composers.

Donald Macleod explores the music of Mussorgsky, focusing on his songs. A pair of masterpieces refracted through the eyes of two very different composers.

This week Donald Macleod explores the music of Mussorgsky, with a particular focus on his songs. Today, a pair of masterpieces refracted through the eyes of two very different composers: Songs and Dances of Death, as arranged almost 90 years after its composition by Mussorgsky's compatriot Dmitri Shostakovich; and one of the most frequently arranged and orchestrated works in the entire repertoire, Pictures from an Exhibition, in the famous version commissioned by the conductor Serge Koussevitsky from that master of orchestral colour Maurice Ravel.


Songs and Dances of Death (orch. Shostakovich)
Ferruccio Furlanetto, bass
Mariinsky Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, conductor

Pictures from an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Berlin Philharmonic
Claudio Abbado, conductor.

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Donald Macleod explores Mussorgsky's music, with the spotlight on his songs

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