I lived in Soviet union as a child. I used to see an animated film based on "Pictures at an exhibition". This is how I get known Musorgskij. Very good way of introducing children to classical music. The same way I learned "Nutcracker" - an animated film without words, just music. I still find those films amaizing!
I'm a Filipino, and I also got introduced to "Pictures at an Exhibition" and Dvorak's "New World Symphony" at the age of 4, after watching a performance of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra on TV (the program was called "Concert at the Park," which was shown every Sunday afternoons on Channel 4, the State TV.)
Evidently, that's really similar to how I was introduced to this piece. A show called "Animusic" used a select few passages of "Pictures" and amped them up almost like some kind of rock concert! Look up "Cathedral Pictures" if you're interested ;)
true! so were many other works we associate with orchestra. for instance, Isaac Albéniz, Asturias (Leyenda) which was transcribed to guitar and orchestra.
Mussorgsky spent only three weeks working on Pictures, in June 1874. It wasn't initially received well by his closest circle of fellow-composers, so he abandoned publishing it; in favor of making progress on other big projects he had going on at the time. Five years after Mussorgsky's death, Rimsky-Korsakov published his arrangement of his good friend's manuscript. Ravel's orchestration came decades later. There have been several other editions before and since Ravel's, but his remains the standard generally.
When I was in my senior year of my High School Orchestra, we had the unfortunate shock of the death of our Music Director Mrs. Lottie Toben. She had arranged for us to play THE GREAT GATE OF KEIV with POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE for our graduation march. Our principal told me to give the piano to my girlfriend Lynn and for me to be the Conductor and I was to combine the Band with the Orchestra. We used a series of Gongs and Kettle Drums for the Finale. I fell in love with this piece of music. During the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico I went to the Pawn Shops and told the owners that I would protect their musical instruments from looters if they let me borrow them to teach the children in my community how to play musical instruments and Vocal. One of the owners was very concern about an Orchestral sized Baldwin Baby Grand Piano. Since I lived on top or a mountain that was fortified, he said that I could safeguard the piano. So, the night before the hurricane hit us, I gathered up all of the musical instruments and sheet music and took them to the Bunk House on my farm. From September to February Puerto Rice was without electricity, tap water, the internet and phone service. I taught the children and lots of the adults how to play musical instruments, read music and sing. In November we play Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Beethoven's Sixth and Ave Maria for Thanksgiving. I have but one regret when it comes to this fantastic Masterpiece of Music. I was born with just two arms and ten fingers which consist of two thumbs. With that being said this video deserves A GAZILLION THUMBS UP ALL AROUND!
Beautiful! They should make a movie about your great works. I'm so inspired right now I want to cry. Wow! Thank you for teaching them how to fish and not just eat. May God bless you and return the blessings you gave them, for the only way to keep any game or tradition alive, is by giving it away. One day those children will compose music and play in front of thousands just like in this video. Amen.
Theres no place in the world better, for me, than in the middle of an orchestra holding a tuba- belting out the baba yaga and beholding the great gate. Russian Masterpiece!!!!
I got to play both of these with my college orchestra, and it was one of the most fun couple pieces I've ever gotten to play. I burned through probably about 1/4 - 1/3 of my bow hair by the time we had finished with rehearsals and the concert because I went absolutely ham. I was first chair violist in my orchestra, and I've rarely felt as exhilarated playing these two pieces as I did at that concert. Absolutely incredible.
Baba Yaga and Great Gate of Kiev were two of my favorite pieces I've ever gotten to play on my viola and will forever be special to me because of how much absolutely raw energy you can put into playing them to make them sound out-of-this-world supreme and epic :)
To me these two pieces of music embody terror and awe without any visual support like no other compositions, it is paradoxical that the name of the composition is "Pictures at an exhibition". I hope that some day this could be played on a renewed beautiful and happy Kiev in the future.
Then ur school orchestra is really good! These two pieces are quite difficult(for strings at least).I played it at an Youth Orchestra outside of school but I don't think my high school orchestra is able to play the Pictures.
jaxxstraw bruh if you were a flute you would die for a lotta pieces. As important the percussion section is, it’s not that hard compared to flute. After songs you get lightheaded and it’s hard to get sound.
Honestly it’s the best gong part in any song ever. I wouldn’t be surprised if the reason most versions don’t show the gong is because the gong player is probably pissing himself like a tiny yappy dog when someone goes to pet it because he hets to hit the gong.
Mussorgsky’s “The Great Gate of Kiev” is beautiful, epic, majestic, and awe-inspiring. It would definitely describe the majestic beauty of the painting and gates that it is named after.
Это "Богатырские ворота " ! Мусоргский исконно русский композитор .Большинство его произведений построены на русском эпосе и русской истории ! "Картинки с выставки " Бали написаны по мотивам русских сказок и русского эпоса . "Хованщина " , "Борис Годунов " , это исторические произведения .
We played this for our high school band concert. I play the flute and I had to play the main melody because we don't have any strings. This piece really gave me a run for my money. But in the end, our band director cried over out performance. We played Pictures At An Exhibition and all of The Second Suite in F by Gustav Holst.
Stier is a Legend. When he worked with the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie (in Görlitz, Saxony) I began listening to classical music and he strongly influenced my musical taste.
My high school played a version of Pictures for our Halftime show this year, Baba Yaga and Great Gate of Kiev are the closing part, the Catacombs and Parts of the promenade are the second part, and the First part of our show is entirely based on the promenade.
After listening to this wonderful performance , I might have a dream of Mussorgsky walking in the crowds of somecity in Mother Russia , talking to his late friend . I was certainly seeing Mussorgsky and his late friend in the crowds of somecity in Mother Russia I am a person who believes in reincarnation and the immortality of the soul . After listening to this masterpiece . I might have a dream of Mussorgsky's vexation when he died in poverty , That dream is the ultimate in bliss for me that deeply love and respect and long for Mussorgsky From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
yeah, the great gate IS that theme being developed further. that theme occurs in between each of the movements in the suite to represent walking in between the pictures at the exibition. so the great gate is the part being expanded further.
The great geat of kiev always brings a tear to my eye. I can't help it from happening. What an absolutely outstanding piece of music. The modern left wing youth claim that white people have no culture. I beg to differ.
Elps rendition was my first exposure to pictures at an exhibition. I loved it and played it so much the vinyl wore thin. Years later, when I caught up with mussorgskys original work , it blew me away and still does.
É incrível como uma obra antes escrita apenas para piano, teve uma reinterpretação para orquestra com a grandiosidade como a que foi feita por Ravel. É extraordinária.
How amazing, what ELP accomplished with merely 3 men, their "wall of sound" to borrow a phrase, that it took a roomful of highly trained musical professionals to express. (Of course, 95% of the sound came from Keith, not to diminish the great excellence of Greg and Carl.)
Came here by accident.. And found out where Madness of the Crowds by Helloween is "stolen" (probably on purpose as the intro is played exactly as it is here)! Maybe along with many other metal riffs! For those interested, check out this song and this great band..
I just listened to the Douglas Gamley transcription of the Great Gate of Kiev, made a few choice comments about its superfluity, and now listening to this, back with Ravel, I must say, that no matter the performance, it is an absolute pleasure to hear the work in its proper guise as it should be presented. The details of this performance are not concerning me right now.
I agree with you on the Douglas Gamley transcription, the only thing I liked about it is the Viktor Gartman's design for the Kiev City Gate. He was a friend of Mussogsky. A year after is early death his paintings were exhibited, over which the master composed Pictures at an Exhibition.
The first time I heard this,40+ years ago,it was recorded by the London Festival Orchestra conducted by Stanley Black. The album was simply entitled RUSSIA.
To Jonathon Palmquist - if you listen to the original piano version of this piece, you can see why the conductor had the timpanist make the grace notes more separated, as the timpani takes the color of the lower register of the keyboard in the piece.
Yes... These huge pipes in front are the biggest pipes you can see if you look at some big organs... They are about 64 feet tall and play very deep tones... (If you are familiar with organ stops, these are Gravissima 64' stops)...
You know I love classical music but mostly the common composers who are German or English. But about 6 years ago I started to listen to Dvorak and I found this composition by searching the origin of the entrance music of The King from WWE.
I lived in Soviet union as a child. I used to see an animated film based on "Pictures at an exhibition". This is how I get known Musorgskij. Very good way of introducing children to classical music. The same way I learned "Nutcracker" - an animated film without words, just music. I still find those films amaizing!
Im german and got introduced to Mussorgksy with Promenade at age 4. Still got memories from my grandparents back then when I hear this piece.
I'm a Filipino, and I also got introduced to "Pictures at an Exhibition" and Dvorak's "New World Symphony" at the age of 4, after watching a performance of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra on TV (the program was called "Concert at the Park," which was shown every Sunday afternoons on Channel 4, the State TV.)
Evidently, that's really similar to how I was introduced to this piece. A show called "Animusic" used a select few passages of "Pictures" and amped them up almost like some kind of rock concert! Look up "Cathedral Pictures" if you're interested ;)
It should be noted that the Mussorgsky work was originally composed for piano and only orchestrated later by Maurice Ravel.
Pictures at an exhibition was even orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski.
Thank you for sharing that!! I had no idea!! I always assumed it was an orchestral piece.
Thomas Thompson And Rimsky-Korsakov.
true! so were many other works we associate with orchestra. for instance, Isaac Albéniz, Asturias (Leyenda) which was transcribed to guitar and orchestra.
Mussorgsky spent only three weeks working on Pictures, in June 1874. It wasn't initially received well by his closest circle of fellow-composers, so he abandoned publishing it; in favor of making progress on other big projects he had going on at the time. Five years after Mussorgsky's death, Rimsky-Korsakov published his arrangement of his good friend's manuscript. Ravel's orchestration came decades later. There have been several other editions before and since Ravel's, but his remains the standard generally.
I think I first heard Baba Yaga when I was about 7 or 8 and with no idea of the folklore, the music still scared the shit out of me
Same
Check out the history of Baba Yaga by Sibelan Forrester.
First time I heared it from ELP.
When I was in my senior year of my High School Orchestra, we had the unfortunate shock of the death of our Music Director Mrs. Lottie Toben. She had arranged for us to play THE GREAT GATE OF KEIV with POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE for our graduation march. Our principal told me to give the piano to my girlfriend Lynn and for me to be the Conductor and I was to combine the Band with the Orchestra. We used a series of Gongs and Kettle Drums for the Finale.
I fell in love with this piece of music.
During the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico I went to the Pawn Shops and told the owners that I would protect their musical instruments from looters if they let me borrow them to teach the children in my community how to play musical instruments and Vocal. One of the owners was very concern about an Orchestral sized Baldwin Baby Grand Piano. Since I lived on top or a mountain that was fortified, he said that I could safeguard the piano. So, the night before the hurricane hit us, I gathered up all of the musical instruments and sheet music and took them to the Bunk House on my farm.
From September to February Puerto Rice was without electricity, tap water, the internet and phone service. I taught the children and lots of the adults how to play musical instruments, read music and sing.
In November we play Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Beethoven's Sixth and Ave Maria for Thanksgiving. I have but one regret when it comes to this fantastic Masterpiece of Music. I was born with just two arms and ten fingers which consist of two thumbs. With that being said this video deserves A GAZILLION THUMBS UP ALL AROUND!
A fascinating heartwarming story.
That was incredibly kind of you. i did the muses proud.
Omg thank you so much for sharing that!
Beautiful! They should make a movie about your great works. I'm so inspired right now I want to cry. Wow! Thank you for teaching them how to fish and not just eat. May God bless you and return the blessings you gave them, for the only way to keep any game or tradition alive, is by giving it away. One day those children will compose music and play in front of thousands just like in this video. Amen.
Theres no place in the world better, for me, than in the middle of an orchestra holding a tuba- belting out the baba yaga and beholding the great gate. Russian Masterpiece!!!!
Hail, Tuba Brother!
The basest of the earth.
Get down. Then get further down...
@@geraldfrost4710 based
the great gates of kiev though, that gets me every time.
I got to play both of these with my college orchestra, and it was one of the most fun couple pieces I've ever gotten to play. I burned through probably about 1/4 - 1/3 of my bow hair by the time we had finished with rehearsals and the concert because I went absolutely ham. I was first chair violist in my orchestra, and I've rarely felt as exhilarated playing these two pieces as I did at that concert. Absolutely incredible.
Congratulations! It's a great piece!
My brass quintet got first place at the sanJuan music educators associations competitions with this song.
The trumpet part mimics the viola!
I played this piece before. I agree that the gate is magical, especially the ending :)
Baba Yaga and Great Gate of Kiev were two of my favorite pieces I've ever gotten to play on my viola and will forever be special to me because of how much absolutely raw energy you can put into playing them to make them sound out-of-this-world supreme and epic :)
a spirited conductor
it's fun just watching him
the Great Gate is a glorious piece of music
Pictures at an exhibition is my absolutely fav symphony.
terrifying and majestic..paints a musical picture..the beginning of Baba Yaga,,,fearsome drums!
orchestration by Ravel is great indeed !
These are two of my favourite classical songs. Wonderful to listen to!
Yes
To me these two pieces of music embody terror and awe without any visual support like no other compositions, it is paradoxical that the name of the composition is "Pictures at an exhibition". I hope that some day this could be played on a renewed beautiful and happy Kiev in the future.
I played both of these pieces in a high school orchestra. That was yearssssssssss ago!
So did I. The auditorium was a wide V shape and they projected the pictures described in the music one the auditorium walls.
Then ur school orchestra is really good! These two pieces are quite difficult(for strings at least).I played it at an Youth Orchestra outside of school but I don't think my high school orchestra is able to play the Pictures.
I FREAKING LOVE THIS PIECE!!!!!
I want to be a gong player. I think I could handle that.
priceless !
jaxxstraw bruh if you were a flute you would die for a lotta pieces. As important the percussion section is, it’s not that hard compared to flute. After songs you get lightheaded and it’s hard to get sound.
Gotta be able to count rests accurately.
Honestly it’s the best gong part in any song ever. I wouldn’t be surprised if the reason most versions don’t show the gong is because the gong player is probably pissing himself like a tiny yappy dog when someone goes to pet it because he hets to hit the gong.
I had a gig playing triangle for a reggae band, I stood at the back and ting.
My orchestra's playing this. Such an amazingly well-written piece!
This was a fun one as a tuba player. I finally got some time to be heard
Mussorgsky’s “The Great Gate of Kiev” is beautiful, epic, majestic, and awe-inspiring. It would definitely describe the majestic beauty of the painting and gates that it is named after.
Это "Богатырские ворота " ! Мусоргский исконно русский композитор .Большинство его произведений построены на русском эпосе и русской истории ! "Картинки с выставки " Бали написаны по мотивам русских сказок и русского эпоса . "Хованщина " , "Борис Годунов " , это исторические произведения .
I just am intoxicated by this overwhelming performance .
There is nothing else to add
From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
Russian Folklore: "exists"
Mussorgsky: GIVE IT BOSS MUSIC!
Mussorgsky sublimated regret , sorrow , suffering and a friend's memories into this masterpiece .
From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
thank you bro!
Una dintre cele mai bune interpretari ascultate.O orchestra de adevarati profesionist.Bravo.
I first heard Promenade and these two songs together on Animusic 2.
Me To
I Like Animusic
+Zachery Rondo ANIMUSIC YESSSSS
Lmao same
I first heard this in the mid 1960s as a small boy. I have never forgotten it.
Very wonderful music ❤️
Thanks Guys! The conductor himself is happy!
We played this for our high school band concert. I play the flute and I had to play the main melody because we don't have any strings. This piece really gave me a run for my money. But in the end, our band director cried over out performance. We played Pictures At An Exhibition and all of The Second Suite in F by Gustav Holst.
I played this piece with my youth symphony in hs! Lordy it was difficult but damn it was so much fun
いいよねえ！素晴らしいね！うまいね！迫力あるね！
These are the peak of this work .
Excellent and powerful performance . 🍎
Deep impression was reaching my soul .
That was truly fantastic. Beautifully played. =)
Percussions sounds AMAZING!!!!!
Catherine has appeared.
It's the killer.
Do not die.
Stier is a Legend. When he worked with the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie (in Görlitz, Saxony) I began listening to classical music and he strongly influenced my musical taste.
No words anymore!🎉
Thank-you very much to the
climax of this work from effulgent Tokyo in profound Japan 🍎
My high school played a version of Pictures for our Halftime show this year, Baba Yaga and Great Gate of Kiev are the closing part, the Catacombs and Parts of the promenade are the second part, and the First part of our show is entirely based on the promenade.
so beautiful.
After listening to this wonderful performance ,
I might have a dream of Mussorgsky walking in the crowds of somecity in Mother Russia , talking to his late friend .
I was certainly seeing Mussorgsky and his late friend in the crowds of somecity in Mother Russia
I am a person who believes in reincarnation and the immortality of the soul .
After listening to this masterpiece .
I might have a dream of Mussorgsky's vexation when he died in poverty ,
That dream is the ultimate in bliss for me that deeply love and respect and long for Mussorgsky
From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
yeah, the great gate IS that theme being developed further. that theme occurs in between each of the movements in the suite to represent walking in between the pictures at the exibition. so the great gate is the part being expanded further.
Sweet, I am playing this in May and I came here to check it out.
Ah memories from the early 90's Frontier: Elite II. ^^
+Henrik Friberg Amen brother, Custom TH-cam playlist for Elite:Dangerous Sessions :)
@@chrisoldfield9614 Dangerous is but a faded shadow of Frontier.
@@iamjimgroth aient it just!
@5:06- @5:38 is pretty tough on the piano version, esp. when they overlap.
ELP's version of Pictures at an Exhibition is better than original, but thanks to Mussorgsky for his beautiful music❤
The great geat of kiev always brings a tear to my eye. I can't help it from happening. What an absolutely outstanding piece of music. The modern left wing youth claim that white people have no culture. I beg to differ.
Anybody here have heard Emerson lake and palmers cover?
Just did, thanks to you ^^
Yes! So good. I used to listen to it at work or at the gym because they make 45 minutes fly by
Elps rendition was my first exposure to pictures at an exhibition. I loved it and played it so much the vinyl wore thin. Years later, when I caught up with mussorgskys original work , it blew me away and still does.
Wood end juniors school took us here as a school trip i neer forgot the experience im 24 nw and was about 11 12 then
Thank you for this video, more interesting..
Une œuvre légendaire et magnifique au plus au niveau
It s fantastic
Brilliant! It is pretty hard to find orchestral (Ravel) version of this on You Tube!
BRAVOOO!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏BRAVOOO!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
É incrível como uma obra antes escrita apenas para piano, teve uma reinterpretação para orquestra com a grandiosidade como a que foi feita por Ravel. É extraordinária.
How amazing, what ELP accomplished with merely 3 men, their "wall of sound" to borrow a phrase, that it took a roomful of highly trained musical professionals to express. (Of course, 95% of the sound came from Keith, not to diminish the great excellence of Greg and Carl.)
What is ELP? Oh I figured it out from Google. Emerson Lake and Palmer
Great orchestra, they preformed this piece very well. :D
Thank you.
Amazing!!!
One of the better versions on youtube. :D
Came here by accident.. And found out where Madness of the Crowds by Helloween is "stolen" (probably on purpose as the intro is played exactly as it is here)! Maybe along with many other metal riffs! For those interested, check out this song and this great band..
coool
i saw this band where ther was a saxiphony instrument playing with the piano
IT WAS HORRIBLE
but it was the same peice
I just listened to the Douglas Gamley transcription of the Great Gate of Kiev, made a few choice comments about its superfluity, and now listening to this, back with Ravel, I must say, that no matter the performance, it is an absolute pleasure to hear
the work in its proper guise as it should be presented. The details of this performance are not concerning me right now.
I agree with you on the Douglas Gamley transcription, the only thing I liked about it is the Viktor Gartman's design for the Kiev City Gate. He was a friend of Mussogsky. A year after is early death his paintings were exhibited, over which the master composed Pictures at an Exhibition.
... GREAT!!! .... i'm also never seen a percussion company up of a step of the orchestra .... very ... powerfull ... very ... good! ....
Best song i have heard
The first time I heard this,40+ years ago,it was recorded by the London Festival Orchestra conducted by Stanley Black. The album was simply entitled RUSSIA.
played this in 7th grade symphony; wish it sounded as good as this orchestra. but it was so much funn
Those 32' organ pipes look AWESOME. lol
To Jonathon Palmquist - if you listen to the original piano version of this piece, you can see why the conductor had the timpanist make the grace notes more separated, as the timpani takes the color of the lower register of the keyboard in the piece.
an ad... during the transition... why ):
Alright I got it! Alright I got it! Alright I got it! EDGE EDGE EDGE EDGE EDGE
*sigh* I really miss playing in an Ensemble, my Guitar class played this in 2008.
The Fennel arrangement for band is intensely difficult and amazing fun to play!
I cannot hear Great Gate of Kiev played without hearing Greg Lake's voice.
And his bass.
I think this guy was under some Baba-Yaga's spell...
Great vid!
;)
🌞 WUNDERSCHÖN....
....danke, für den Wegweiser! 💫🕊👱♀️
This is AWESOME!!!!!!
We are playing this in our high school orchestra but without the band
C. Jones my band played this without the orchestra. Haha!
Amazing
I think that Mussorgsky’s “Hut on Hen’s Legs” sounds really spooky, scary and suspenseful. It is true and faithful to the legend of Baba Yaga.
Hut on hen’s legs
Such an oddly fluid transition between pieces...
Yes... These huge pipes in front are the biggest pipes you can see if you look at some big organs... They are about 64 feet tall and play very deep tones... (If you are familiar with organ stops, these are Gravissima 64' stops)...
lady baba or baby gaga and her late Babar, no glitz or glamour or sexy can ever come up to this Exhibit.
Awesome! original interpretation!!
Baba Yaga is BAE
+Aidan Chung agreed
wut r u duing in these wuuds?!?
HOLY CRAP IT'S BEEN ALMOST A YEAR WOW
@@ellispipermusic time to bring up memories from long past. it has been now 4 years. welcome to the past my friend
Thugasaurus Rex :O thanks for tagging me!! i would have never remembered i was here, lol
I love this 🎵
Very beautiful
my eigth grade orchestra is going to attempt this, if we get anything to this i can cosider myself and my orchestra good
To the UA students who got here from the Russian class, I applaud you for having a good ear for symphonic orchestra music.
You know I love classical music but mostly the common composers who are German or English. But about 6 years ago I started to listen to Dvorak and I found this composition by searching the origin of the entrance music of The King from WWE.
I thought the video was sped up for a moment... it must be a very tiring however fun experience being in an orchestra.
Why didn't they include some of those melodies in John Wick's movie?
I was hoping for something too. I also would have liked the Emerson Lake and Palmer version!
lOve th sOund Of th beautiful viOlin's in th music ..ihts absOlutely beautiful ;')
.x
wonderful music
Fabulous.
Excellent 👌🏻
Qué bonito cuento el de Baba Yaga...😮
@courtneysimpson88 Great! It is my pleasure! The conductor ;-)
ahh goosebumbs
"This will be our reply to violence:
to make music more intensely,
more beautifully,
more devotedly than ever before.”
― Leonard Bernstein
loved the organ
The timpani starts crossed like a shoe in a box. "Good neighbor": he crosses paths often...hahahaha