Ormandy: Rachmaninoff & Mussorgsky/Ravel — Symphony No. 3 & Pictures at an Exhibition

Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 by Sergei Rachmaninoff is paired with Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky in Maurice Ravel’s orchestration, with Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra.

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The program brings together Rachmaninoff’s late symphonic writing and Ravel’s celebrated orchestral transformation of Mussorgsky’s piano cycle.

Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra

The two works demand very different control of orchestral color: in the Third Symphony the discourse alternates drive and lyricism; in Pictures at an Exhibition, Ravel’s orchestration gives each picture a distinctive timbre, register and density.

Available formats

File PCM 44.1kHz • 16bit — CD Resolution.

Tracklist

01 — Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3, Op. 44: I. Lento — Allegro moderato
02 — II. Adagio ma non troppo
03 — III. Allegro
04 — Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition — Promenade
05 — Gnomus
06 — Il vecchio castello
07 — Tuileries
08 — Bydło
09 — Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells
10 — Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle
11 — Limoges: Le marché
12 — Catacombae: Sepulchrum Romanum
13 — Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
14 — La cabane sur des pattes de poule
15 — La grande porte de Kiev

Credits

Composers: Sergei Rachmaninoff; Modest Mussorgsky
Orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition: Maurice Ravel
Conductor: Eugene Ormandy
Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra
Format: File PCM 44.1kHz • 16bit — CD Resolution

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