Duo Amie | Hut on Fowls Legs - Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Arr. for cello & Piano by Charles Schiff @DuoAmie | Uploaded March 2020 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Pictures at An Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
Despite now being his most well-known work, at the time of Mussorgsky’s death, his Pictures at an Exhibition had been neither published nor performed. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakove finished the manuscript and it was published in 1886. Based on ten drawings/watercolors by his friend Victor Hartmann (many of which have unfortunately been lost), the piece was originally written for piano solo. Ravel arranged the piece for orchestra in 1922. Several additional arrangements for various instruments have also been created, including this one for cello and piano by Charles Schiff.
Hartmann’s original watercolor for Hut on Fowl's Legs survived. It was a design for a clock made to look like Baba Yaga’s hut in the woods, which according legend, is built on chicken legs. According to Hartmann’s friend Stasov, Hartmann was fascinated by the witch Baba Yaga, The beginning of the movement could be thought of as the striking of the clock, followed by the frenzied terror of children being chased by Baba Yaga. The terror and chaos build until stilled by the gloriously majestic sounds of the last movement, the Great Gate of Kiev.
Duo Amie Presents Melodic Canvases
Julie Reimann, Cello
Ellyses Kuan, Piano
Recorded on November 3, 2018 at Longyear Museum
Pictures at An Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
Despite now being his most well-known work, at the time of Mussorgsky’s death, his Pictures at an Exhibition had been neither published nor performed. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakove finished the manuscript and it was published in 1886. Based on ten drawings/watercolors by his friend Victor Hartmann (many of which have unfortunately been lost), the piece was originally written for piano solo. Ravel arranged the piece for orchestra in 1922. Several additional arrangements for various instruments have also been created, including this one for cello and piano by Charles Schiff.
Hartmann’s original watercolor for Hut on Fowl's Legs survived. It was a design for a clock made to look like Baba Yaga’s hut in the woods, which according legend, is built on chicken legs. According to Hartmann’s friend Stasov, Hartmann was fascinated by the witch Baba Yaga, The beginning of the movement could be thought of as the striking of the clock, followed by the frenzied terror of children being chased by Baba Yaga. The terror and chaos build until stilled by the gloriously majestic sounds of the last movement, the Great Gate of Kiev.
Duo Amie Presents Melodic Canvases
Julie Reimann, Cello
Ellyses Kuan, Piano
Recorded on November 3, 2018 at Longyear Museum
