Sonorous portraits in sound: An exhibition in memory of his late friend, the painter Victor Hartmann, inspired Mussorgsky to create his piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition. In five Promenades he guides the listener from one picture to the next, from the grotesquely disjointed “Gnomus” to a featherweight ballet of unhatched chicks, an afternoon in the Tuileries, the sinister witch’s hut on fowl’s legs and the majestic tones of the Great Gate of Kiev. Orchestral arrangements have made the work world-famous: the world of Mussorgsky’s fertile imagination is depicted in all its scintillating colours and is transmuted into an intense listening experience.

01 Mussorgsky/Gortchakov : Pictures at an Exhibition : Promenade I  - Kurt Masur
02 Mussorgsky/Gortchakov : Pictures at an Exhibition : 1. Gnomus  - Kurt Masur
03 Mussorgsky/Gortchakov : Pictures at an Exhibition : Promenade II  - Kurt Masur
04 Mussorgsky/Gortchakov : Pictures at an Exhibition : 2. The Old Castle  - Kurt Masur
05 Mussorgsky/Gortchakov : Pictures at an Exhibition : Promenade III  - Kurt Masur
06 Mussorgsky/Gortchakov : Pictures at an Exhibition : 3. Tuileries  - Kurt Masur
07 Mussorgsky/Gortchakov : Pictures at an Exhibition : 4. Bydlo  - Kurt Masur
08 Mussorgsky/Gortchakov : Pictures at an Exhibition : Promenade IV  - Kurt Masur
09 Mussorgsky/Gortchakov : Pictures at an Exhibition : 5. Ballet of the Unhatched Chickens  - Kurt Masur
10 Mussorgsky/Gortchakov : Pictures at an Exhibition : 6. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle  - Kurt Masur
11 Mussorgsky/Gortchakov : Pictures at an Exhibition : Promenade V  - Kurt Masur
12 Mussorgsky/Gortchakov : Pictures at an Exhibition : 7. The Market Square  - Kurt Masur
13 Mussorgsky/Gortchakov : Pictures at an Exhibition : 8. Catacombae . Sepulchrum romanum  - Kurt Masur
14 Mussorgsky/Gortchakov : Pictures at an Exhibition : Cum mortuis in lingua mortua  - Kurt Masur
15 Mussorgsky/Gortchakov : Pictures at an Exhibition : 9. The Hut on Hen's Legs  - Kurt Masur
16 Mussorgsky/Gortchakov : Pictures at an Exhibition : 10. The Great Gate of Kiev  - Kurt Masur
17 Prokofiev : Symphony No.1 in D major : I Allegro  - Kurt Masur
18 Prokofiev : Symphony No.1 in D major : II Larghetto  - Kurt Masur
19 Prokofiev : Symphony No.1 in D major : III Gavotte - Non troppo Allegro  - Kurt Masur
20 Prokofiev : Symphony No.1 in D major : IV Finale : Molto vivace  - Kurt Masur