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Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

WORKS OF MODEST MUSSORGSKY

Stage Works (operas)

1872    Boris Godunov (second version)

1880    Khovanshchina (left incomplete)

1880    Sorochintsy Fair (left incomplete)

Orchestral

1858    Scherzo in Bb

1861    Alla marcia notturna

1867    Night on Bald Mountain (rev. 1872)

1880    The Capture of Kars (March)

Piano

1852    Porte-enseigne polka

1857    Souvenir d’enfance

1858    Two Sonatas (Eb and F# minor) lost

1858    Scherzo in Bb

1859    Impromptu passionné

1859    In the Corner (scherzo)

1862    Intermezzo in modo classico

1865    From Memories of Childhood

1865    Reverie

1871    The Seamstress

1874    Pictures at an Exhibition

1879    Storm on the Black Sea (lost)

1880    On the Southern Shore of the Crimea

1880    In the Country

Song Cycles

1868-70   The Nursery

1874    Sunless

1875    Songs and Dances of Death

Songs

Mussorgsky composed around 65 songs (also known as art songs or "romances"). These songs cover a wide range of themes, including Russian folk life, historical events, and deeply personal emotions.

  

Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)

Mussorgsky/Ravel

PROGRAM NOTES & COMMENTARY

In the years around 1850, with the spirit of nationalism sweeping through Europe, several young Russian artists banded together to rid their native art of foreign influence  in order to establish a distinctive character for their works. At the front of that movement was a group of composers known as The Mighty Handful, or The Five, whose members included Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, César Cui and Mily Balakirev….

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CYS Performance History

Works by Modest Mussorgsky and the Mighty Five

MUSSORGSKY

1996     Pictures at an Exhibition

2004     Pictures at an Exhibition

2007     Night on Bald Mountain

2011     Night on Bald Mountain (AO)

2013     Pictures at an Exhibition

2017     Night on Bald Mountain (AO)

2022     Night on Bald Mountain (AO)

2024     Pictures at an Exhibition

BORODIN

2000     Polovetsian Dances

2009     Polovetsian Dances (AO)

2013     Polovetsian Dances (AO)

2016     Polovetsian Dances

2018     Polovetsian Dances (AO)

2022     Polovetsian Dances (AO)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

1994     Scheherazade 

1999     Capriccio Espagnole

2001     Scheherazade

2002     Capriccio Espagnole

2008     Scheherazade

2010     Capriccio Espagnole (AO)

2013     Scheherazade

2015     Capriccio Espagnole (AO)

2019     Capriccio Espagnole (AO)

2021     Scheherazade (4th mvt.)

2024     Capriccio Espagnole (AO)