Pictures at an Exhibition - Bydlo (orch. Gorchakov)

ORCHESTRATED BY SERGEI PETROVICH GORCHAKOV. (Сергей Горчаков) Kurt Masur conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Gewandhausorchester). Recorded in 1993. Картинки с выставки -- Воспоминание о Викторе Гартмане GORTCHAKOV, Sergei (Gorchakov, Sergei Petrovich, b. Moscow 10 Feb. 1905; d. 4 July 1976) (family name Tsveifel [Zweifel] per LC ) Musorgski, Modest: Pictures at an Exhibition; Bilder Einer Ausstellung (Gortschakow, Sergej) (orch. 1954). Duration 29’ to 31’ mins Instrumentation : 3[] 3[] 4[ ] 3[] — 4 3 3 2 — tmp 5 perc (bd, chimes, cym, glock, sd, tam-tam, tri, wdblk, xyl) — hp — cel — str. Published by Sikorski (1955) Score and Parts on rental. Also listed in the C. F. Peters Corporation, Glendale, NY rental catalog Allow me to introduce to you all LEONIDAS LEONARD ( Leon Leonardi, or Leonid Leonardi)! Leonidas Leonardi was a pupil of Maurice Ravel. Maurice Ravel’s orchestration for Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition“ was a tremendous success back in 1923. W. Bessel & Co. Paris, publishers of Mussorgsky’s music, wanted something to strike back and so they approached a precoscious 21-years-old pianist named Leonidas Leonardi who was studying orchestration with Maurice Ravel himself at that time. Leonidas Leonardi obliged to orchestrate the work. He dedicated his orchestration to Igor Stravinsky, and conducted the premiere himself with the Lamoureux Orchestra in Paris on 15 June 1924. The US Premiere took place when the New York Symphony Orchestra performed it on 4 December 1924 under the baton of Walter Damrosch. In spite of that, the Leonardi version has remained an obscurity eversince, and NO recording exists for it! Only conductor Leonard Slatkin “revived“ Leonidas Leonardi in the early ’90s, and he used in his first compilation (of “Pictures at an Exhibition“) an excerpt of Leonardi’s orchestration (Promenade III & Tuileres). MUST WATCH VIDEOS!! LEONIDAS LEONARDI FEATURED!!!! As far as I am concerned, Leonidas Leonardi has the following Orchestral Transcriptions : -J.S. Bach / Leonidas Leonardi: Overture from Cantata XXVI, Ach wie fluchtig, ach wie nichtig BWV 26 [Elkan-Vogel Inc. ] -J.S. Bach / Leonidas Leonardi: Prelude and Fugue In E Minor “Cathedral“, BWV 533 [Elkan-Vogel Inc. ] -J.S. Bach / Leonidas Leonardi: Toccata & Fugue In D Minor, BWV 565 [Elkan-Vogel Inc. , c1936] -J.S. Bach / Leonidas Leonardi : Chaconne for 9 solo instruments and orchestra [Elkan-Vogel Inc.] -Dietrich Buxtehude / Leonidas Leonardi : Prelude BuxWV 142 In E minor [Fleisher Collection, 1935] -Scheidt Samuel / Leonidas Leonardi : Cantiones sacrae, Vater unser im Himmelreich [Fleisher Collection] -Johann Nicholas Hanff / Leonidas Leonardi : Two chorale-preludes, for strings (Auf meinen liben Gott -- Ein’ feste Burg) [Fleisher Collection, 1935] -J.K. Vogler / Leonidas Leonardi : Jesu Leiden, Pein und Tod [Fleisher Collection] -Johann Gottfried Walther / Leonidas Leonardi : Lobe den Herren, den machtigen Konig der Ehren [Fleisher Collection] -Frescobaldi Girolamo / Leonidas Leonardi : Concerto in G Minor for Orchestra [Elkan-Vogel Inc.] -Rachmaninoff / Leonidas Leonardi : “Do Not Sing, My Beauty“ in A Minor, Op.4 No4 [Breitkopf & Haertel, c1923] -Rachmaninoff / Leonidas Leonardi : “Christ is Risen“ in F Minor, Op. 26 No6 [Breitkopf & Haertel, c1923] -Rachmaninoff / Leonidas Leonardi : “I Have Grown Fond of Sorrow“ in G Minor, Op.8 No4 [Breitkopf & Haertel, c1923] -Rachmaninoff / Leonidas Leonardi : “The Island“ in G Major, Op. 14, No2 [Breitkopf & Haertel, c1923] -Rachmaninoff / Leonidas Leonardi : “How Painful for Me“ in G Minor, No12 [Breitkopf & Haertel, c1923] A Chart for Orchestrations and Arrangements!! Charts/