Duo Amie | Limoges the Market - Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Arr. 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.
The original design by Hartmann upon which Mussorgsky based Limoges the Market Place is lost. Hartmann’s drawing supposedly showed a bustling market place with a group of market women in animated conversation, by their carts. The movement captures the bustling of the market place and hectic pace of the scherzo, with its irregular accents, and constantly running notes. The movement ends with an uninterrupted scamper, as if a run away horse or cart is careening through the market causing chaos until it is abruptly caught at the end.
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.
The original design by Hartmann upon which Mussorgsky based Limoges the Market Place is lost. Hartmann’s drawing supposedly showed a bustling market place with a group of market women in animated conversation, by their carts. The movement captures the bustling of the market place and hectic pace of the scherzo, with its irregular accents, and constantly running notes. The movement ends with an uninterrupted scamper, as if a run away horse or cart is careening through the market causing chaos until it is abruptly caught at the end.
Duo Amie Presents Melodic Canvases
Julie Reimann, Cello
Ellyses Kuan, Piano
Recorded on November 3, 2018 at Longyear Museum
