

Beschreibung
To some of his contemporaries, Mussorgsky was 'insane' and 'a perfect idiot'. Borno into a wealthy land-owning family, what drove this tormented man and why did he suffer with psychological breakdowns and alcoholism? How did he achieve a command of the realist...| 1 | Introduktion | 00:09 | |
| 2 | Bilder einer Ausstellung (für Klavier) (Auszug) | 00:09 | |
| 2 | 4. Cattle | 00:51 | |
| 3 | Recalling his time spent in Berlin in the 1830s, the Russian literary critic Pavel Annenkov declared: "Every Russian... | 02:40 | |
| 4 | Kamarinskaja (Fantasie über 2 russische Volkslieder) | 00:54 | |
| 5 | If Glinka was the fountainhead of Russian music, his offspring - in a musical sense - included Mily Balakirev, César... | 04:23 | |
| 6 | Intermezzo in modo classico (Version 2, 1867) | 01:31 | |
| 7 | Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was born on 21 March 1839 into a wealthy, land-owning family in the provincial town of... | 01:49 | |
| 8 | Porte-enseigne ("Ensign") Polka | 01:08 | |
| 9 | After being commissioned an officer in the elite Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Imperial Guards, Mussorgsky met a... | 01:54 | |
| 10 | Scherzo in cis-moll | 01:13 | |
| 11 | Another personal crisis appears to have occured a couple of years later, in the summer of 1860, while Mussorgsky was... | 02:07 | |
| 12 | Bilder einer Ausstellung (für Klavier) (Auszug) | 02:07 | |
| 12 | 8. The Catacombs (Roman Tomb) | 00:51 | |
| 13 | Another extract from Mussorgsky's pictures at an exhibition, this a movement titled catacombs. | 01:49 | |
| 14 | Der Seminarist | 01:24 | |
| 15 | The following year, 1867, Mussorgsky finished an orchestral project that he seems to have had in mind for several... | 01:09 | |
| 16 | Eine Nacht auf dem Kahlen Berge (Sinfonische Dichtung) | 00:46 | |
| 17 | That Mussorgsky never heard this tone-poem in performance is perhaps not surprising, given the work's immediate... | 02:27 | |
| 18 | Zhenit'ba ("The Marriage") | 02:27 | |
| 18 | Vot tak nachnyosh etak ("Here is how you start...") (1. Akt, Szene 1) | 01:41 | |
| 19 | Despite his bold proclamation of his compositional intentions in Marriage, Mussorgsky would go on to call the opera a... | 04:14 | |
| 20 | Boris Godunow (Oper in 4 Akten) (Auszug) | 04:14 | |
| 20 | Introduktion (Prolog, Szene 1) | 01:14 | |
| 21 | A final passage from Boris Godunov furnishes another example of a folk-inspired musical style. | 01:01 | |
| 22 | Boris Godunow (Oper in 4 Akten) (Auszug) | 01:01 | |
| 22 | Flow, bitter tears (4. Akt, Szene 1) | 01:58 | |
| 23 | Here at the end of the opera, Mussorgsky paints a sorrowful picture. | 02:57 | |
| 24 | Khovanshchina (Auszug) | 02:57 | |
| 24 | Introduktion. Dawn on the Moscow River (1. Akt) | 02:20 | |
| 25 | At the time Mussorgsky was working on Khovanshchina, Boris finally premiered at the Mariinsky. | 02:12 | |
| 26 | Bilder einer Ausstellung (für Klavier) (Auszug) | 02:12 | |
| 26 | 1. Promenade 1 | 01:15 | |
| 27 | In between the seemingly happenstance occurrences of Mussorgsky's Promenade theme are movements that function as... | 00:45 | |
| 28 | Bilder einer Ausstellung (für Klavier) (Auszug) | 00:45 | |
| 28 | 2. The Old Castle | 00:47 | |
| 29 | Yet, as with Boris Godunov, Pictures at an Exhibition features contrasting styles. | 00:34 | |
| 30 | Bilder einer Ausstellung (für Klavier) (Auszug) | 00:34 | |
| 30 | 5. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks | 01:14 | |
| 31 | 1874 was a busy year: besides working on the Pictures suite and Sunless songs, Mussorgsky started another musical... | 03:07 | |
| 32 | Lieder und Tänze des Todes Nr. 1-4 (Auszug) (bearb. für Stimme und Orchester von E. Denisov) | 03:07 | |
| 32 | Nr. 3 Trepak | 01:53 | |
| 33 | Mussorgsky started work on his Songs and Dances of Death in the first half of 1875, but the cycle was not finished... | 02:07 | |
| 34 | Lied des Mephistopheles (Flohlied) | 00:59 | |
| 35 | Following Mussorgsky's dismissal from government service on 13 January 1880, the composer made further appearances as... | 05:48 | |
| 36 | Bilder einer Ausstellung (für Klavier) (Auszug) | 05:48 | |
| 36 | 10. The Great Gate of Kiev | 02:07 |