Mariss Jansons - Strawinsky & Mussorgsky (2015)

Two well-known masterpieces of Russian music complement each other perfectly on the latest CD of Mariss Jansons and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Firstly, Stravinsky's ballet music "Petrushka" in its 1947 version which, with its smaller orchestra and more prominent piano part (played by Lukas Maria Kuen), is more of an instrumental work, or "a kind of concert piece"; and secondly, Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." Originally written in 1874 as a piano cycle, it can be heard here in the colourful, universal and engaging orchestral version of 1922 by Maurice Ravel, which made it world-famous.

The recordings were made in November 2014 (Mussorgsky) and April 2015 (Stravinsky) at concerts in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz and in the Philharmonie im Gasteig.

Tracklist:
Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka, Tableau I
1. Tableau I: The Shrovetide Fair
2. Tableau I: Russian Dance
Petrushka, Tableau II
3 Tableau II: Petrushka's Room
Petrushka, Tableau III
4.Tableau III: The Moor's Room
5. Tableau III: Waltz
Petrushka, Tableau IV
6. Tableau IV: The Shrove-Tide Fair and the Death of Petrushka
7. Tableau IV: Wet Nurses' Dance
8. Tableau IV: Peasant and Bear
9. Tableau IV: Dance of the Gipsy Girls
10. Tableau IV: Dance of the Coachmen and Ostlers
11. Tableau IV: The Masqueraders
12. Tableau IV: The Scuffle (Blackamoor and Petrushka)
13. Tableau IV: Death of Petrushka
14. Tableau IV: Police and the Juggler
15. Tableau IV: Apparition of Petrushka's Double
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. M. Ravel)
16. Promenade I
17. I. The Gnome
18. Promenade II
19. II. The Old Castle
20. Promenade III
21. III. Tuileries
22. IV. Bydlo
23. Promenade IV
24. V. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
25. VI. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
26. VII. The Market Place at Limoges
27. VIIIa. Catacombae. Sepulchrum romanum
28. VIIIb. Con mortuis in lingua mortua
29. IX. The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga)
30. X. The Great Gate of Kiev