“Isms” do not work In great music. I was always confused by the fact of “attributing” Debussy and Ravel to the “Impressionists”. Even in the fine arts, where everything is subject to “currents” and “manners,” “packaging” on the shelves takes place in hindsight and with great deal of “generalization”….. (Read more) And how did Ravel…
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Complete Mussorgsky “Pictures” in English.
It should be played at all worlds TV music stations. Every year. In order to remind feral and retarded modern people what is the best of music and culture.
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
Our level of music understanding / Чтобы вы понимали – как “обстоит дело с музыкой” на нашей планете
Our level of music understanding. Without verbalization of each musical phrase, sentence, even the meaning of a single tone (!), The performer cannot filtr out music through his intellect. This means – “he / she / it only “feels” but does not understand what is he doing. He plays by his/her belly. And remains an…
The “piano performing era”
A small message from the near future to today’s monkey pianists, monkey conductors and “other musicians”. Very soon, people would laugh in universities and music schools of the nearest future at the “piano performing era”. They will look at our time, as we look now, with humor and sympathetic irony, at the savages of the…
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…
Eighth part of English version of “Pictures at an exhibition”
Another masterpiece of Modest Petrovich. A stunning sketch of humanity in a negative light – arrogant, vulgar, stupid, self-satisfied. Satire in music. The rarest example of musical literature. Unsurpassed. Many composers tried to embody humor and satire in music. From ancient poets-musicians to Shostakovch and Prokofiev. But no one had such a natural gift of…
Robert Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13 (Live from Vilnius)
I am very happy that Mussorgsky has rightfully become the darling of our community. For 140 years (in the “hypostasis” of Pictures), he “was known as the“ grave Russian ”populist” with the avian imagination of a junior schoolchild of an elementary Soviet school. But he turned out to be a “rocker”, a psychedelic musical…
Awareness in music making
Musicians of all ages have a paucity of practical professional tools for increasing their knowledge and understanding of musical works. Generally, they are guided by their teachers’ intuition, “traditions”, book knowledge, and copying performances from audio recordings; unfortunately, these sources and methods fail to adequately help students understand the music’s inherent meanings. Students would greatly…
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…
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