Pictures at an Exhibition: Esa-Pekka Salonen (4 of 4)

I love the bassoon solo at 1:03 I love playing bassoon! I love impish stuff like that!

If you look carefully into the bell of the trombone you can see Mussorgsky seated at a piano holding his ears while being flogged by Ravel.

First of all - wonderful, wonderful performance. Really like the conductor, and he's wonderful to watch.
A few criticisms; at 5:40 the tempo seems twice as fast as Georg Solti's with the Chicago Symphony. It's such a beautiful section when played slowly. And the violins are so low in the mix! And is that a stray bass drum hit at 7:17?
But overall...heaven.

thats in the score? isnt it?
when the symphony i played it in played this, it was there...

@sstrunks5555 LOL i know, he plays it like, twice, and thats all he does...once at the end of the "Gnomus" movement and in this.

That's because it isn't in the score. He doesn't have to play there.

this was i kind of performance which i could rate as "divine"...

Why is the tempo so fast jeez, does he have a wife in labor that he has to get to? holy crap. ive never heard the hut on fowl's legs played this fast

i loved the great gate of kiev though

Well Orpheus1356, although it was a tad too fast during Fowl's Legs,i think they compensated this 'mishap' on Great Gate Of Kiev. Still it was overall a marvellous show put up by them =D

I don't feel like the tempo's too fast in Fowl's Legs. I mean, it sounds great anyway, so who cares? Orchestra is good enough to play this fast.