00:24 Promenade I 02:04 The Gnome 04:36 Promenade II 05:35 The Old Castle 09:33 Promenade III 10:05 Tuileries 11:06 Cattle (Bydło) 14:00 Promenade IV 14:46 Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks 16:04 Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle ----:---- Promenade V (Omitted) 18:34 Limoges: The Market Square 19:59 Catacombs 22:12 With the Dead in a Dead Language 24:06 The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba-Yaga) 27:33 The Great Gate of Kiev 37:28 Rákóczi March - Berlioz

@mouschiu

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for replacing my old comment for timestamps. You've done the people a great service.

@josuerodriguez6971

3 жыл бұрын

Pp

@dielotosblume1205

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@somecunninglinguist

2 жыл бұрын

Literally the biggest regret of my life is that the high school band teacher that was teaching us this had to leave and his replacement didn’t continue because he wanted to start fresh. Heartbreaking

@annacostello5181

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏

Mussorgsky at his best. Ravel at his best. CSO at its best. Solti at his best. The audience at its best.

I’ve heard shouts of praise and bravos but never a death cry! That dude deserves an applause for best intro to an applause.

The most captivating performance I heard, even on cell phone. Humane, poignant and monstrous. A testament to composer, the era he endured, and its masterful resurrection by Ravel.❤

This masterpiece will quench the dryness of the soul

So many great things about this recording: written by a Russian composer, played by a Midwestern American orchestra, conducted by a Hungarian, and performed in Japan. Thank you for posting!

@teepee431

3 жыл бұрын

Orchestrated by a Frenchman.

@joshliu4428

3 жыл бұрын

@@teepee431 Yes, and Ravel! XD

@silentbranch

2 жыл бұрын

Literally doesn’t get any better

@judyglasel5870

2 жыл бұрын

….and orchestrated by Maurice Ravel, a Frenchman !

@e.conboy4286

2 жыл бұрын

Music is universal, hum?

34:19 Bud Herseth, a legend, and the crowd knew (of course)!

One of the top 10 composed pieces of music of all time!!!!!

@bohemoth1

3 жыл бұрын

And transcends beyond time and eternity....

@StocksIn60Seconds

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, absolutely.

@whatitoya1015

2 жыл бұрын

And one of best performances

My favorite Work, favorite Conductor, favorite Orchestra and favorite Principal Trumpet Player! Herseth, Vosburgh, Scarlett and Kent were a powerhouse especially on the Great Gate of Kiev at the end.

@dogwoodservicesinc.2972

6 ай бұрын

What an insightful comment. I’m a fan of this work, of CSO and of Herseth. Tremendous.

This is a work at the center of my being. Solti's performance with his brilliant ensemble strikes to the very core of my soul. This music and these musicians are why life is worth living.

@michaelmichelz3349

2 жыл бұрын

Agree totally.....

@spikespa5208

4 ай бұрын

Dare I say....ditto.

@jeffwatkins352

4 ай бұрын

@@spikespa5208 You dare, you dare! And I'm not even Russian. But Mussorgsky speaks to me in some special language that won't let me go. I call that a good thing, don't you.

@jeffwatkins352

4 ай бұрын

@@spikespa5208 I only got to hear Solti conduct live one time: Covent Garden, Salome with Grace Bumbry. I'll never forget it.

Herseth was an absolute monster! Even on the Monette!

@daet.4570

3 жыл бұрын

really beautiful

@michaelrotman8523

2 жыл бұрын

I met him at a master class

@michaelrotman8523

2 жыл бұрын

When did they abandon the classic set of of Bach Cs made specially for them? Looks like he's playing it here

@michaelrandall9034

10 ай бұрын

Even?

The best of best. I haven't heard such briliant performance of this piece, and I will never hear this level of performing live again in possibly my entire life.

Just listened in my car. I've heard a number of different versions of this piece, which I love. This was by far the most vibrant and expressive version I've ever heard. Lot of grey heads in that orchestra, and the composer too. Apparently it was an advantage, because that was a badass jam

@michaelfoxbrass

2 жыл бұрын

Badass jam indeed! Widely considered one of the the US’s top (or at least in the top 3), the CSO brass section sizzles and shines, the winds sing, chirp, and flutter, and the strings glide and float over a rowdy but disciplined percussion section!

have to play this today Feb 2022 out of respect fo the like last days of Ukraine..I played this years ago in another live when I was a violinist. My grandfather was a German soldier in WW 1 who marched through that region and into the Crimea, was captured and was marched ot the Russian Gulags. History seems to repeat itself at times. Love the Russian composers Mussorsky, Thichowsky and Prokofiev... just can not spell their names

This is the best orchestrated version of it I've seen, the instruments are so in tune with each other! This definitely needs to be remastered

@brucekuehn4031

3 жыл бұрын

It is a colorful orchestration and these colors are vivid indeed!

@ditto1958

2 жыл бұрын

The best orchestra/conductor ever

@spikespa5208

2 жыл бұрын

32 years ago and this performance of The Great Gate Of Kiev still overpowers me. And the reaction of the audience at the end is incredible.

@iconic0794

2 жыл бұрын

@@spikespa5208 fr

Mussorgsky, Ravel, Solti. I am so sorry they cannot feel our gratitude or know how much delight they have given and continue to give us.

This is by far my favorite recording ever of Mussorgsky’s pictures at an exhibition. It’s home to me, I compare this recording to every other one I listen too. Every time I try to turn this on for background music for doing homework I can’t help but stop and watch this amazing orchestra perform. It just gives me this indescribable feeling. Damn it, I love this video so much.

@russlehman2070

4 ай бұрын

I agree. This is my favorite performance of my favorite classical comoposition.

Nothing on the planet better than mature professional musicians!!!

@michaelmichelz3349

2 жыл бұрын

GOT THAT RIGHT

That shout says it all.........absolutely brilliant!

My wife and I watched the CSO play this in 2018 and I distinctly remember the conductor adding a sudden drop to piano on the V chord they blast out at 32:30 in this video and I swear they literally ripped a hole in the roof of symphony center on one of the loudest crescendos I've ever heard to the downbeat of the next bar. We literally gasped in the audience, the ending was absolutely immaculate - sounds I've never heard in my life, percussion just unleashing, brass singing out over the top of the sound. It was a moment I will never forget.

These great performers and this conductor are the Alchemists of Mussorgsky‘s music This masterpiece their splendid performers and incomparable conductor with exquisite skill and breathtaking technique is a magnificent Requiem for Mussorgsky's late friend . This performance is beyond description , inspirational , graceful and comfortable to the ear and the mind There is something extraordinary in this specutacular performance From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

Japonese audience; so respectful, attentive...(not a sound, no "soffio").... Must be a pleasure, and honor, to perform for them.

@spikespa5208

6 ай бұрын

Respectful. But still lose it in exuberance at the end of The Great Gate Of Kiev..

@austinhan6998

2 ай бұрын

@@spikespa5208 Japanese classical music audiences popping off like it's Wrestlemania, love to see it

a colorful orchestra and a giant conductor: the result is such a superb performance. Thanks to people who has uploaded this unforgettable record

Uffda....I'm a big Bud Herseth fan (being from MN). Solti was on very lucky guy to hear them every day for years!

Imagine what it feels to be the first trumpet...

Possibly the best orchestral brass section I've ever heard! Unbelieveable! And kudos to the production crew for recording them so well!

One of the most fun pieces to play in an orchestra. Features almost every section.

There will never be as great as a combination as Georg Solti and the CSO.

@marykellyklein

Жыл бұрын

I agree!

Welcome to the big time, Mr. Pokorny! You did good!!!!!

Genial y emocionante. Viva Solti, el mejor director. Viva Adolph Herseth, el gran trompeta que enrojecía de esfuerzo y emoción.

これは、１９９０年のサントリーホールでのライブですね。懐かしいですね。確か、ベートーヴェンの運命も、ありましたね。 ショルティらしい、テンポで、エネルギッシュな演奏ですね。シカゴ交響楽団も、特に、金管楽器の輝かしい響きがいいですね。

Sir George poured everything into his conducting . CSO is truly world class .

The scream at the end says it all!

Mussorgsky is an Alchemist of the soul, Ravel is an Alchemist of the arrangement Mussorgsky says 「 Thanks to great Ravel ！ And this masterpiece is my heartfelt Requiem for my late friend , and will be full of your tribute and deep impression」

@stevetatchell5571

2 жыл бұрын

Great comment!

Thank you good sir. It is a masterpiece

I played The Hut of Baba Yaga & Great Gate of Kiev in 1986 at NYU during a high school orchestra competition on euphonium. Still my favorite piece of classical music to this day…and very challenging to play as well.

You can see a recording of this song performed in Tokyo on KZread. It's the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Karajan. To be honest, it seems to me that Solti's performance is of a much higher standard. Their ability to play brass instruments has reached the ultimate level.

Comments from memory: Back when I could say 'my symphony orchestra could kick your symphony orchestra's ass' Many comments about the legendary musicians in this tape. Unfortunately, I can not name them.

@Windband1

3 жыл бұрын

Adolph Herseth, the greatest principal trumpet of the 1900s. :)

@julianruiz8524

3 жыл бұрын

Principal Clarinet, Larry Combs. Amazing clarinetist who also plays in the World Orchestra for Peace

@ANF97

3 жыл бұрын

One comment I always remember: "There isn't one brass player who won't tell you they love 32:15 more than their own mother."

@Windband1

3 жыл бұрын

@@ANF97 LOL. Wow that's such a slow interpretation there. He's milking it hard. LOL.

@ANF97

3 жыл бұрын

@@Windband1 I've heard and played multiple interpretations of this piece, and frankly, Solti does it best.

What the greatest brass section ever sounded like

The comfort of this performance is off the charts, and far superior splendor.

A superb live performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, under the passionate direction of Maestro Solti! A great close recording to evenly capture clear and well balanced instrumental sounds produced by the orchestra. What an incredible brass ensemble and performance during the playing of The Great Gate of Kiev, and visually, a magnificent display of maturity, professionalism and love of art by every member of this world renown symphonic orchestra. One of my favorite recordings, ever!

A superb performance by CSO and Solti! And great to see all the super musicians, especially Bud Herseth and Ray Still in the orchestra. I can only think of another performance of this magnificent music that can compare and that´s the 1957 RCA recording with Fritz Reiner and CSO. And with Bud and Ray playing on both performances!

@violinhunter2

2 жыл бұрын

And Dale Clevenger?

@waltertheus3467

2 жыл бұрын

And Arnold Jacobs on tuba. My counselor at Brevard Music Center when I was 14 had an lp of the CSO under Ozawa with Pictures and the Britten Young Person's guide. He was a tuba player. The brass as a whole blew me away. I was studying piano with Lee Luvisi.

@DennisDoubleday

2 жыл бұрын

@@waltertheus3467 That's Gene Pokorny on tuba, though. Jacobs retired a couple of years before this.

@DennisDoubleday

2 жыл бұрын

And Jay Friedman, trombone, is still there to this day. He got the job in 1964!

@DennisDoubleday

2 жыл бұрын

And Larry Combs, clarinet.

This Pictures is one of the best

Listened to WRTI today, classical music station in philadelphia. It reignited an interest in this piece. Solti and CSO what a great performance!

I seem to remember that the original recording had a comment from the son of one of the horn players, who told the audience that that was his father playing.. I thought that was so cool!!

Huge Fan of Sir Georg Solti's recording work of the Classics!

This's just one of masterpieces among many fantastic performance by Sir George Solti.

33:10 THAT SCREAM

@acerjuglans

3 жыл бұрын

Legend tells this scream is still heard around the world to this day.

@trevorrobertsondoublebass4233

3 жыл бұрын

acerjuglans it’s true, I just heard it just now!

@user-js4iz7cr7m

3 жыл бұрын

Must be Rob Halford

Thanks to Keith Emerson ( ELP ) too, who introduced me to this extraordinary author

@spikespa5208

6 ай бұрын

Ditto.

The sound quality is awesome as well! Thank you so much!

Thank you, Pisaster Archive. I also love "Pictures at an Exhibition" and am glad that, thanks to you, I have heard this distinctive and charming interpretation.

Being from Boston doesn't stop me from regarding this as one of the most magnificent orchestras....anywhere.....Impecible Brass section......

I would never have known about this had it not been for Emerson Lake and Palmer. I like both productions though.

@andrewhooper6705

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. EL did a good job

@lesleyhalkett5675

2 жыл бұрын

Same. They did Modest proud.

Mussorgsky , who died in poverty at the young age of 42, sublimated regret , sorrow , suffering and a friend's memories into this masterpiece From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵 ..

@annacostello5181

2 жыл бұрын

Omg I never heard his tragic end.

@shin-i-chikozima

2 жыл бұрын

@@annacostello5181 Thankyou I hope you are well

@colleencupido5125

2 жыл бұрын

Mussorgsky: Nobody sounded like him before he started to compose. And Nobody sounded like him after he died. How could they? He was one-of-a-kind! ///History is littered of Artists who come to sad ends- some of their own making ( and definitely some Not of their own making!) For every present-day idiot who thinks Artists are loafers who don't perform honest work and sponge of others for a livlihood; There are countless others who realize many great Artists basically sacrificed whatever could have made them really happy- for the sake of creating their Art. And they DID have a choice! How often have I heard "If only Mozart wrote the music expected of him- like everybody else's- he could have been wealthy and had a long life" 🙄 DUH!!! And what about the millions who have loved his music for hundreds of years? And to some gave their life the greatest happiness?/// From what I do know Mussorgsky had a bona-fide drinking problem. But Thank God 🙏 Almighty in Heaven that he lived!!!(even if he MIGHT not have been always pleasant to be around)

@shin-i-chikozima

2 жыл бұрын

@@colleencupido5125 Thankyou your wonderful comment Please live well You and I am the proud Mussorgskyists

@colleencupido5125

2 жыл бұрын

@@shin-i-chikozima You are quite welcome. Aren't you the one I responded to weeks ago for your poetic estimation of Alfred Brendel playing Schubert at the piano?

Probably the best suite of music ever composed. Thanks to Mussorgsky, but also Ravel !

This is truly one of the finest brass sections ever assembled flexing its muscle. Only under Solti though would it be so. Too many performances are played at too fast a tempo. Particularly the Gate of Kiev. The slower tempo really allows the might of this brass section to truly shine. Simply incredible.

@stanley2004

Жыл бұрын

Unbelievable brass section ! ! !

@spikespa5208

Ай бұрын

31:18 through to the end. My system speakers begging for mercy.

So I get to this via Emerson Lake and Palmer..then Tomita..and this is simply awesome, the original is best!

@anthonydewitt7674

2 жыл бұрын

me too and that was many years ago

Great performance, thanks.

Thank you for reuploading this! I was so upset when I found out it was private :(.

OMG top that, magnificent

A little background information: Chicago's Solti symphony orchestra toured to Japan twice prior to this recording. This was the third. One of nine performances in 15 days, this was hosted in Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Yokohama. I couldn't find any literature on the tour, beside a schedule. It is likely these writings are either in Japanese, or simply do not exist on the internet. It appears "192bps Sound" taped a Japanese broadcast of the performance, which explains the subtitles.

@frankkolton1780

3 жыл бұрын

A few minor corrections sir. While the CSO did perform this at Kenmin Hall that tour, this was definitely filmed and recorded at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the main hall has a somewhat unique design. They performed 3 nights at Suntory, April 11, 15, and 26th of 1990. Solti conducted the Mussorgsky/Ravel shows for the first two, Barenboim conducted a Brahms program the 26th. I believe this was recorded the evening of the 15th at Suntory by Sony, for Japanese TV and for eventual release on VHS. The CSO did a total of 12 shows over 15 nights on the Japan tour. The tour cost just over $ 2 million at that time. Motorola Corp. helped sponsor the tour with a contribution of just under $800 thousand, the state of IL and Chicago contributed some funds and $900 thousand was generated from the contracted concert fees. Daniel Barenboim, who was to be the replacement music director for the soon to be retiring Solti, was co-director for this tour.

@annacostello5181

2 жыл бұрын

Thank u for posting

DALE!!! Looked so young back then...

Quel orchestre et quel chef d'orchestre ! Une des meilleures versions jamais entendue.

старина Мусоргский, гордимся тобой...

This masterpiece has a healing effect,

outstanding!

How good was that 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 now going to listen to it by ELP but that was. Superb

Fantastic!!

This is such beautiful music😌

amazing

Outstanding, Bravo 😮

Saw Maestro Ricardo Muti and the CSO perform this live in Sarasota last evening! Exhilarating! Of course they received a SO, as they did for Beethoven’s Eighth and a beautiful opera piece by encore demand of the very fortunate audience who attended.

One of the most legendary performances of the great gate of Kiev

The euphonium in bydlo is so beautiful

@brucekuehn4031

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Jay Friedman who began with Chicago as a trombonist in 1962. I saw something from him where he said that during COVID he was working to improve his sound. Never stop trying to improve!

FANTASTIC !

Un día desperté y la sinfonía que solían tocar las aves sonaba amorfa, sin ritmo y melodía. Solti había partido de este mundo. ¡Gracias Maestro!

Pure Solti.

Amo la música alemana e intaliana, pero la rusa siempre me lleva a otro plano universal, toda suena apoteosica, grande, inmensa, llena de una pureza armónica y melodica sublime, tenemos a Chaikovsky, Rimsky Korsakov, Chostakovik, Stravinsky, Rachmaninov y podria mencionar muchos mas, es simplemente EXCELSA. En este caso doy gracias a Ravel por tremenda transcripción de tan monumental obra pianistica.

Magnifica esecuzione! Pelle d'oca!!!!!!

Today July 14, the French Bastille Revolution friends, wishing everybody enjoy a nice French inspiration, sooner or later powerful men that believe themselves untouchables, they pay the price. This is a Russian composition in French Ravel interpretation, yeah the true power of music when it becomes a multi national asset, great concerto indeed, great fantasy, let's dedicate it those who need to become your supporters from now on, long live music power friends

LOVE the remix and reprise of themes @ the end. Kinda Chicago styling the show.

Remarcable performance fans, EPIC, wish you never forget, this is the Maurice Ravel version of Musorgsky composition and as he wanted to give his own personalized interpretation, other orchestra conductors could improve, most of all those concerts that are not same lucky to get important audience and bringing classical music to those who are not your fans yet is never enough, until this main dope will be the only one requested, l am addicted of a lifetime, instead of poisoning and burning the brain its regenerating and stimulating mostly when great performers are making of it such a heavenly delight 🤗🤗🤗🤗💕💕💕💕🥂🥂🥂🥂😍😍😍🍾🍾🍾🍷🍷🤩🤩🤩🥳🥳🥳🥰🥰🥰🥰🎺🎺🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

Esta interpretação é inesquecível, com músicos fantásticos com seu grande representante Herseth, e Sir George Solti impecável, marcante e inspirador.

Marvelous!!!!!! 👏 👏 👏 👏

Greg Lake said my Father Composer Ever was Mussorgsy , no doubt , he said in Montreal to a journalist in Montreal Live Stade Olympic

Great Gate of Kiev is 27:33

@joshliu4428

3 жыл бұрын

You mean the 1812 overture?

@joshliu4428

2 жыл бұрын

​@@matteocaiti4878 and you got the wrong joke. Jk ofc I know. They sound similar

@matteocaiti4878

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshliu4428 calling a music piece and calling it by another name just because it sounds similar is not a joke.

@joshliu4428

2 жыл бұрын

@@matteocaiti4878 Lol take it easy, I was just having a sense of humor. Composers influence/borrow all the time. Sure it's epic, but I'm also not the only one who thought this sounds like Tchaik.

@matteocaiti4878

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshliu4428 sorry. Is that every time i go on classical music videos (little einsteins included) i always find comments like that

I'm here because George Hrab (kzread.info) recommended this video. It's a work I have always loved, from ELP's cover to the 8-bit version in Frontier: Elite II. Superb rendition. Thank you for sharing.

This is a mandatory retirement piece... It has to end on the last note of Great Gate of Kiev

The best.

The man he scream at the end me like

My favourite movements are "the old castle" "Bydło", "the hut on chicken legs" and "the great gate of Kiev"

Found it at last !

Incredible low brass.

I can't believe this was in 1990

@lemau8458

Жыл бұрын

32 years ago

@spikespa5208

Ай бұрын

Don't know who the sound engineer on this recording was but he knew his s___ .

yay!

this brass section...

Keith Emerson foi um gênio que peça linda!!!!!!

The comfort of Promenade is irreplaceable The solemnity of the Gate of Kiev is irreplaceable

33:11 - ROAAAR!

Mussorgsky is my soul brother