By Leonard Slatkin's count, there are over 80 different orchestrations of Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." He tapped into 15 of them to create a unique version of the work. He leads the Nashville Symphony in a performance of it at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Modest Mussorgsky: Scherzo in C-sharp Minor
Pianist Brigitte Engerer
Naftule Brandwein: "Terkishe Yale V'yove Tantz" and "Der Heyser Bulgar"
Clarinetist Alan Kay and Trio Solisti
Modest Mussorgsky: "Pictures at an Exhibition"
The Nashville Symphony with conductor Leonard Slatkin
Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville
Reynaldo Hahn: "Anthony van Dyck" and "Antoine Watteau" from "Four Portraits of Painters after Poems by Marcel Proust"
Pianist Jeffrey Swann
International Keyboard Institute and Festival, New York City
Hour 2
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Old French Melody" and "Song of the Lark" from "Children's Album," Op. 39
Pianist Michael Ponti
Traditional Irish: "The Lark in the Clear Air"
Violinist Geraldine O'Grady and pianist Margaret O'Sullivan
Grigoras Dinicu: "The Lark"
Flutist Michael Martin Kofler and the Sebastian String Quartet
Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, Zagreb, Croatia
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op. 64, No. 5 ("The Lark")
The Talich Quartet
The Frick Collection, New York City
Bela Bartok: Second movement from Concerto for Orchestra
The Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela with conductor Gustavo Dudamel
Symphony Hall, Boston
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B-Flat, K. 191
Bassoonist Kenneth Munday with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and conductor Joseph Swensen
Royce Hall, Westwood, California
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