Pictures At An Exhibition
Year
1971
Genre
Rock
Style
Prog Rock, Symphonic Rock
Label
Island Records
Producer
Greg Lake
Album Summary
Pictures at an Exhibition is a piano suite in ten movements, plus a recurring and varied Promenade theme, written in 1874 by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. It is a musical depiction of a tour of an exhibition of works by architect and painter Viktor Hartmann put on at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, following his sudden death in the previous year. Each movement of the suite is based on an individual work, some of which are lost.
Tracklist
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A1 Promenade
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A2 The Gnome
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A3 Promenade
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A4 The Sage
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A5 The Old Castle
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A6 Blues Variation
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B1 Promenade
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B2 The Hut Of Baba Yaga
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B3 The Curse Of Baba Yaga
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B4 The Hut Of Baba Yaga
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B5 The Great Gates Of Kiev
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B6 The End
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B7 Nutrocker
Total Runtime: 0:00
Most Popular Members
Keith Emerson
Greg Lake
Carl Palmer
