Pictures at an Exhibition/Mussorgsky/Leibowitz/RPO/Part-3 (o

Rare. Rene Leibowitz conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in this fantastic performance of Pictures (Ravel Orchestration), from 1962.

An incredible record (RCA) with Pictures on one side and Night on Bare Mountain on the other (sorry the album cover art is blurry). (Both on YouTube)

This is my favorite version of Pictures and Rene Leibowitz is my favorite composer/conductor.

Enjoy!

Rene Leibowitz (1913-1972) was born in Warsaw but moved to Paris in his teens and there began a long, illustrious conducting career. Particularly interested in contemporary music, he studied with Webern and Schoenberg and wrote a detailed analysis of twelve-tone music. A keen ear for instrumental coloration (Ravel was his orchestration teacher) was evident in his kaleidoscopic transcriptions of such works as Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C (for double orchestra!). But he is best known for his often highly personal renditions of many staples of the Classical and Romantic repertoire.

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[miakaal]

This is so wonderful, and brings many happy memories. great post!!

[hgjfkd12345]

@MamboCat84 well at the end of the cadenza there is are cymblas which sound like tv static, and then, to me anyway, it freezes and does a woodpecker noise, and then goes to the GG

[MamboCat84]

um, is it just me or is there some funky scratching going on before the Great Gate of Kiev?

[dissent666]

This is my favourite version too. I used to have this album, but I lost it. Thanks for posting this.

[fob199]

Where can I get this album?

[wab4100]

In der Tat eine höchst bemerkenswerte Interpretation.