Blessed with a fantastical imagination, yet cursed with a predilection for alcohol, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was the archetypal tortured genius. Mussorgsky was one of music’s great originals.
This week would have been the 128th birthday of one of Russian’s most famous composers, Modest Mussorgsky. Some of you might know him as the composer of Pictures at an Exhibition, but all of you know ...
The Irish Times: Modest Mussorgsky Unorthodox Music review – Treasure trove of vivid storytelling
“Unorthodox” is a description you could apply to much of the music by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky (1839-81). He was born into wealth (fellow composer Borodin once called him “an elegant ...
The Guardian: Modest Mussorgsky: Unorthodox Music review – operatic vividness and tremendous panache
A ‘cradle-to-grave songspiel’ describing the arc of a woman’s life is brilliantly conceived by soprano Booth and pianist Glynn Modest Mussorgsky is indisputably one of the greatest of 19th-century ...
Modest Mussorgsky was a composer close composerA person who writes music. from Russia. He was born in 1839 and died in 1881. One of his most famous pieces is called 'Pictures at an Art Exhibition'. It ...
Mussorgsky's Pictures Audio will be available later today. Conductor Gunther Herbig leads the Saarbrucken Symphony Orchestra in "Pictures at an Exhibition," by Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881).
Do lords or mobs shape the lives of nations? Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, which compresses seven gruesome years of Russian history into four and a half glorious hours, abounds with both. The ...
Gramophone: Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (orch Ravel): a guide to the best recordings