Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel); Night on a Bare Mountain; Khovanshchina; Gopak; Balakirev: Tamara
May 25, 2016At the time of its release – 1960 – Ansermet’s stereo recording of the Mussorgsky-Ravel ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ was demonstration worthy, and it still, today, retains its sense of space and impact. Much of the remainder of the program makes its first international appearance on CD, and the ‘Dance of the Persian Slaves’ (from […]