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Eide plays Pictures at an Exhibition, Part 1 (Mussorgsky)

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Uploaded on May 29, 2008

Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, Pål Eide - piano, from the concert programme "Piano Pictures" (Check out his new cd with Bach and Rachmaninov at Amazon.com). Richter called Pictures at an Exhibition "the greatest russian work for piano".

Content Part 1:
- Promenade I
- Gnomus (The Gnome)
- Promenade II
- Il Vecchio Castello (The Old Castle)

Mussorgsky was inspired to write his masterpiece at an posthumous exhibition of paintings and drawings by the architect and illustrator (who had been Mussogsky´s friend), Victor Hartmann. The music describes the pictures and the composers state of mind as he is walking between the pictures...

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