Pictures at an Exhibition

Leonard Slatkin conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra at the BBC Proms 1991. This is his 1st pastiche for "Pictures at an Exhibition".
This excerpt includes :
Promenade III & Tuileries (orch. Leonidas Leonardi)
Bydlo (orch. Sir Henry Wood)
Promenade IV (orch. Lucien Cailliet)
Ballet of the unhatched chicks (orch. Lucien Cailliet)
2 Polish-Jews, One Rich, the other Poor (orch. Sergei Gorchakov)

Allow me to introduce to you all LEONIDAS LEONARD (a.k.a Leon Leonardi, or Leonid Leonardi)! Leonidas Leonardi was a pupil of Maurice Ravel. A new version of "Pictures" was commissioned by the publishers of Mussorgsky's piano original (W. Bessel & Co., Paris) since they were quite taken aback by the enormous success of the Maurice Ravel version following its premiere in 1922 under Sergei Koussevitzky's direction. They had assumed that Koussevitzky's commission would not be a success so they asked an orchestration pupil of Ravel himself, Leonidas Leonardi (1901-1967) to provide them with an orchestral version of their own which would out-do Ravel's. Leonardi duly obliged, dedicated his arrangement to Igor Stravinsky, and conducted the premiere himself with the Lamoureux Orchestra in Paris on 15 June 1924. The US Premiere took place when the New York Symphony Orchestra played it on 4 December 1924 under the baton of Walter Damrosch. In spite of that, the Leonardi version has remained an obscurity eversince, and NO recording exists for it!
Leonidas Leonardi's orchestration requires massive symphonic forces: 2 flutes & 1 piccolo, 2 oboes & 1 cor anglais, 2 clarinets & 1 bassclarinet, 2 bassoons & 1 contra-bassoon, 1 soprano saxophone, 1 alto saxophone, 1 tenor saxophone -- 8 horns, 4 trumpets & 2 cornets, 3 trombones, 2 bass tubas -- 2 harps, piano, glockenspiel, celeste, bells, clashed cymbals, suspended cymbals, snare-drum, triangle, tam-tam, bass drum, timpani and strings.
http://www.lucksmusic.com/catdetailview_symph.asp?CatalogNo=08431
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u197/Aggelos_05/Leonardi.jpg
THEREFORE WE MUST CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT LEONIDAS LEONARDI! THERE MUST BE RECORDING(S) FOR LEONIDAS LEONARDI.
Rachmaninoff-Leonardi : Chanson Georgienne Op 4 No 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0FQYf78NcY

A Clinton Nieweg Chart for Orchestrations and Arrangements on MOLA. A must-have!
http://www.mola-inc.org/Nieweg%20Charts/MussorgskyPictures.pdf

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