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Available on vinyl for the first time in decades, the recording that birthed a label: Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, with Rafael Kubelik conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra – the release which led Howard Taubman, chief music critic of The New York Times to write, ‘One feels one is listening to the living presence of the orchestra’. Incredible detail and fidelity, recorded with a single Neumann U-47 microphone in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, April 24, 1953.
Disc 1
1. Promenade (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. Gnome (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
3. Promenade (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. The Old Castle (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
5. Promenade (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Tuileries (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
7. Bydlo (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Promenade (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
9. Ballet of Unhatched Chicks (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Two Polish Jews – Rich and Poor (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11. Limoges – The Market Place (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
12. Catacombs (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
13. The Hut On Fowl’s Legs (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
14. The Great Gate at Kiev (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
1. Promenade (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. Gnome (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
3. Promenade (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. The Old Castle (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
5. Promenade (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Tuileries (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
7. Bydlo (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Promenade (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
9. Ballet of Unhatched Chicks (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Two Polish Jews – Rich and Poor (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11. Limoges – The Market Place (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
12. Catacombs (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
13. The Hut On Fowl’s Legs (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
14. The Great Gate at Kiev (Modest Mussorgsky) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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