Tracklist:

1. Introduction [00:10]
2. Pictures at an Exhibition: IV. Bydlo (excerpt) [00:51]
3. Recalling his time spent in Berlin in the 1830s the Russian literary critic Pavel Annenkov decla... [02:40]
4. Kamarinskaya (excerpt) [00:55]
5. If Glinka was the fountainhead of Russian music his offspring - in a musical sense - included Mi... [04:24]
6. Intermezzo in modo classico (1867 version for piano) (excerpt) [01:31]
7. Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was born on 21 March 1839 into a wealthy land-owning family in the p... [01:49]
8. Porte-enseigne Polka (Ensign-Polka) (excerpt) [01:08]
9. After being commissioned an officer in the elite Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Imperial Guards ... [01:55]
10. Scherzo in C-Sharp Minor (excerpt) [01:14]
11. Another personal crisis appears to have occurred a couple of years later in the summer of 1860 ... [02:08]
12. Pictures at an Exhibition: VIII. Catacombae (Sepulcrum romanum) (excerpt) [00:52]
13. Another extract from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition this a movement titled Catacombs… [01:49]
14. Seminarist (The Seminarist) (excerpt) [01:25]
15. The following year 1867 Mussorgsky finished an orchestral project that he seems to have had in ... [01:10]
16. St. John's Night on Bald Mountain "A Night on the Bare Mountain" (original version) (excerpt) [00:46]
17. That Mussorgsky never heard his tone-poem in performance is perhaps not surprising given the wor... [02:27]
18. Zhenit'ba (The Marriage) Act I Scene 1: Vot tak nachnyosh etak (Here is how you start) [01:42]
19. Despite his bold proclamation of his compositional intentions in Marriage Mussorgsky would go on... [04:15]
20. Boris Godunov Prologue Scene 1: Introduction (1869 version) (excerpt) [01:14]
21. A final passage from Boris Godunov furnishes another example of a folk-inspired musical style… [1:01]
22. Boris Godunov Act IV Scene 1: Lejtes' lejtes' slëzy gor'ki (Flow bitter tears) (1869 version) [01:58]
23. Here at the end of the opera Mussorgsky paints a sorrowful picture… [02:58]
24. Khovanshchina Act I: Introduction (excerpt) [02:21]
25. At the time Mussorgsky was working on Khovanshchina Boris finally premiered at the Mariinsky… [02:12]
26. Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade [01:15]
27. In between the seemingly happenstance occurrences of Mussorgsky's Promenade theme are movements t... [00:45]
28. Pictures at an Exhibition: II. Old Castle (excerpt) [00:48]
29. Yet as with Boris Godunov Pictures at an Exhibition features contrasting styles… [00:34]
30. Pictures at an Exhibition: V. Ballet of the Chickens in their Shells [01:14]
31. 1874 was a busy year: besides working on the Pictures suite and Sunless songs Mussorgsky started... [03:08]
32. Pesni i plyaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death): No. 3. Trepak (arr. E. Denisov for voice and ... [01:54]
33. Mussorgsky started work on his Songs and Dances of Death in the first half of 1875 but the cycle... [02:07]
34. Pesnya Mefistofelya v pogrebke Auerbakha (Mephistopheles's Song in Auerbach's Cellar) "Song of t... [01:00]
35. Following Mussorgsky's dismissal from government service on 13 January 1880 the composer made fu... [05:48]
36. Pictures at an Exhibition: X. The Great Gate at Kiev (excerpt) [02:07]