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Category: The Return of Music
Elleventh film, the final part of the English version of “Pictures at an exhibition”. “The Great Gate of Kiev”.
Mussorgsky “Passions” are over. Today is exactly one year since we started shooting the first series with Arseny. Just one year. And before us is the result of our collective labor. Great drama, ununderstood by people of the entire world during one and a half century, “Pictures at an exhibition.” We returned them to the…
Tenth part of English version of “Pictures at an exhibition”
“The Hut on Fowl’s Legs” (Baba Yagá). Russian evil in music. Distled. Eternal. Needs no comments. Enjoy! AG
Ninth part of English version of “Pictures at an exhibition”
Central dramatic point of Mussorgsky’s masterpiece. “Catacombs”. Where Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky using his music as a “time machine” and the tool of sending most dramatic intimate and subconscious emotions in the ocean of time-space. Using very original, unusual for his time innovative technique of psychedelic improvisation which will come to our planet only a century…
Seventh part of English version of “Pictures at an exhibition”
Psychologic look at social conflict through the prism of “eternal dialog” between rich and poor. In case of Mussorgsky’s “Pictures” – two Jews. Rich and poor. After this “pictures” comes back Modest Petrovich himslf in his full autopotrait – “Promenade”. Almost as in the beginning but more and more confident and decisive. Enjoy. AG
Sixth part of English version of “Pictures at an exhibition”
Funniets piece of serious piano music literature. “Ballet of Unhached Chiks”. Comments are superfluous. Laugh and enjoy Modest Mussorgsky’s cosmic all-encompassing genius. Enjoy. AG
Fifth part of English version of “Pictures at an exhibition”. “Bydlo”
Where Modest Petrovich gives metaphisical picutere of humanity carrying the burden of life. Rising above personal experience and narrow artistic look he shows us in this music the “whole Mother Russia”, somber, heavy, drunk and dark, doomed to carry the hard and cruel path of its historic destiny. But Mussorgsky rises even higher than that…
English version. AG Mussorgsky video series “Pictures at an exhibition” part IV “Tuileries”
Fourth part of English version of “Pictures at an exhibition” is ready. “Tuileries”. The part where Modest Petrovich shows his Slavic nature on a subconscious, “genetic” level. Where we can observe and enjoy something what has long ago disappeared from our planet. Real Russian soul undisturbed by any influence of historical circumstances of the Christian…
English version. AG Mussorgsky video series “Pictures at an exhibition” part III “The Old Castle”
Third part of English version of “Pictures at an exhibition” is ready. “The Old Castle”. One of the most misenterpreted of all “Pictures” for 140 years since Mussorgsky wrote his epic work. Wrong tempo, wrong content, “wrong everything” was in all “interpretations” before our jorney into the concseousness of Modest Petrovich. That’s why the “talk…
English version. AG Mussorgsky video series “Pictures at an exhibition” part II “The Gnome”
Dima’s next jewelry work in promoting the series “Pictures at an Exhibition” in English. It took 10 hours of hard work on language and music synchronization. As Dmitry modestly said to me. I know it takes more time. This is a very difficult job, as it strains many areas of the brain in parallel —…
AG UCM Mussorgsky “Pictures at an exhibition” part I. In English
Dear fellow musicians. Please watch carefully and change your mindset towards “interpretation”. We can interpret differently only cerain composer’s mesagges and statements, pictures and and emotional states. But ONLY when we know exactly, precisely what every tone tells to us. Which particular information it carries. One have carefully decipher this information. Study, study and study….
AG UCM Mussorgsky “Pictures at an exhibition” part I. In English.
Aware people and aware music making. We are entering into a new era of aware musicians. One has to prove he fully understands music in a new form of a very high level “philosophical performance” consisting from all “components” of the “music content” – philosophy, literature, poetry, music analyses, history of peoples, history of culture,…
TV Show: Mussorgsky
Первая проба. Доработка, необходимая для снятия языкового барьера с наших сериалов, оказалась технически возможной. Диме удалось убедительно и органично вмонтировать английский язык в русскоязычные музыкально-философские путешествия в сознании композиторов. Теперь можно будет сделать весь сериал о Мусоргском начисто-набело и отчуждение, которое неизбежно возникает от иностранного языка, исчезнет для миллионов людей, владеющих английским. Это прекрасная вдохновляющая…
Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XlO4IxFTks Promenade [00:00] In this first piece Mussorgsky makes his presence known through this motivic musical self-portrait: this main theme and its motives are at once wonderful, ironic, sad and at the same time funny, bitter and at the same time sweet. The whole work is devoted to portraying his “physiognomy,” with this title theme outlining…
ANDREI GAVRILOV 