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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Kegel

Berlin Classics x Tower Record  0302951BC

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral

Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bald Mountain*, Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)**
Prokofiev: Love for 3 Oranges Suite**, Scythian Suite***

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin*
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig**
Staatskapelle Berlin***
Oleg Durjan*, Herbert Kegel** & Witold Rowicki*** (conductors)

All

Recording

Analogue recording

Works (4)

• Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain - Symphonic Poem (1867) (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)
• Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition for Orchestra (1874) (arr. Ravel)
• Serge Prokofiev: Scythian Suite for Orchestra, Op. 20
• Serge Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges - Symphonic Suite, Op. 33bis