COMPOSERS: Mussorgsky
LABELS: Naxos
ALBUM TITLE: Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
WORKS: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Peter Breiner)
PERFORMER: New Zealand Symphony/P Breiner
CATALOGUE NO: 8.573016
Utterly different in feel and texture to Ravel’s celebrated orchestration of Pictures, Peter Breiner demonstrates a special empathy with Musorgsky’s startling world of Romantic primitivism. (JH)