… the work takes in a range of emotional energies, and it sounds somewhat American in flavor and timbre, especially in its use of counterpoint, a David Diamond specialty. Agitated strings play against brass punctuations of “fateful” motivic allusions…
… The skittish Presto maintains a sarcastic tone, along with a compositional prowess that suggests toccata for orchestra…
… The Largo provides a D Major song, a paean that will likely provide a movie soundtrack eventually; maybe it is the love-music if someone remakes On the Waterfront…
Nashville Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin has just released a new recording of Pictures at an Exhibition with each movement transcribed for orchestra by a different arranger.
Some of the arrangers, like Vladimir Askhenazy and Leopold Stokowski are well known, others are not.
But all have been moved by Mussorgsky’s music, and all have created brilliant arrangements.
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