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Tomita - Pictures At An Exhibition flac album
  • Performer Tomita
  • Title Pictures At An Exhibition
  • Date of release 1975
  • Country Canada
  • Style Modern Classical, Ambient
  • Other formats VOX AIFF MP3 VQF WMA AHX DXD
  • Genre Electronic
  • Size MP3 1270 mb
  • Size FLAC 1126 mb
  • Rating: 4.4
  • Votes: 520

Complete your Tomita collection. Moussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - Tomita ‎(LP, Album).

Moussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - Tomita ‎(LP, Album). Pictures At An Exhibition ‎(LP, Album). The most complex, deepest, grandioso electronic album ever. Nothing come closer technicalwise. Incredible taste and power, unparalelled character. HIGHEST recommendation!!! Avoid remasters! The early German is far the most precise and clean and informative sounding CD of all. Reply Notify me 3 Helpful.

Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite of ten pieces (plus a recurring, varied Promenade) composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. The suite is Mussorgsky's most famous piano composition and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists. It has become further known through various orchestrations and arrangements produced by other musicians and composers, with Maurice Ravel's arrangement being by far the most recorded and performed.

Tomita's "Pictures at an Exhibition" sounds like something composed for four dimensions by chrome angels from the future, created from an alternate reality for some new plane of consciousness. Thirty years later, it's still relevant. This electronic realization magnifies the vision and emotions evoked in the original Mussorgsky piano compositions, interprets them with bolder imagery. He has another album just as accomplished in my estimation, Tomita: Firebird. For some reason, as unarguably good as it is, it's been out of circulation for years, and you'd have to pay with a vital organ to procure a copy. Its surreal spacial quality was bounded by a more recognizable earthbound deference to melody than "Pictures at an Exhibition. But the Tomita's rendition of "Night on Bald Mountain" had the best of all worlds. Clearly Mussorgsky's music lends itself easily to electronic interpretation.

Pictures at an Exhibition (Emerson, Lake & Palmer album). Pictures at an Exhibition is a live album by the English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in November 1971 on Island Records. It is a recording of the band's arrangement of Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, performed at Newcastle City Hall on 26 March 1971. Emerson wished to arrange the piece after seeing an orchestral performance of it several years before

He adds much of his own personality to the new arrangements so they are not straight technical knockoffs. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition takes on new meanings under Tomita 's sensitive and sensible rendering. He is not re-inventing the wheel so all of the original drama and humor is there but the new hooks and riffs have moxy and their own senses of drama and humor. The ambient atmospheres and sci-fi textures give this version an outer space persona.

Tracklist

A1 Promenade 1:30
A2 The Gnome 3:12
A3 Promenade 1:02
A4 The Old Castle 5:18
A5 Promenade 0:34
A6 Tuileries 0:55
A7 Bydlo 3:17
A8 Promenade 1:00
A9 Ballet Of The Chicks In Their Shells 1:05
B1 The Two Jews 3:04
B2 Limoges/ Catacombs 3:56
B3 Cum Mortuis In Lingua Mortua 2:06
B4 Baba Yaga (Hut On Fowls' Legs) 3:50
B5 Great Gate Of Kiev 6:14

Credits

  • Artwork By [Cover Bas-relief] – Gene Szafran
  • Composed By [Original] – Modest Mussorgsky
  • Performer [Electronically Created By] – Isao Tomita*

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
ARL1-0838 Tomita Pictures At An Exhibition ‎(LP, Album) RCA Red Seal ARL1-0838 Canada 1975
RCALP3010 Tomita Moussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - Tomita ‎(LP, Album) RCA RCALP3010 UK 1975
ARL1-0838 Tomita Pictures At An Exhibition ‎(LP, Album) RCA ARL1-0838 Israel 1975
ARL1-0838 Tomita Pictures At An Exhibition ‎(LP, Album, RE) RCA Red Seal ARL1-0838 Canada Unknown
ARL1-0838 Tomita Cuadros De Una Exposición ‎(Cass, Album, RE) RCA ARL1-0838 Spain 1977

Tracklist

A1 Promenade 1:30
A2 The Gnome 3:12
A3 Promenade 1:02
A4 The Old Castle 5:18
A5 Promenade 0:34
A6 Tuileries 0:55
A7 Bydlo 3:17
A8 Promenade 1:00
A9 Ballet Of The Chicks In Their Shells 1:05
B1 The Two Jews 3:04
B2 Limoges / Catacombs 3:56
B3 Cum Mortuis In Lingua Mortua 2:06
B4 Baba Yaga (Hut On Fowls' Legs) 3:50
B5 Great Gate Of Kiev 6:14

Companies, etc.

  • Manufactured By – RCA Limited
  • Distributed By – RCA Limited
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – RCA Records
  • Copyright (c) – RCA Records
  • Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Smiths Falls, Ontario
  • Lacquer Cut At – RCA Studios, Toronto

Credits

  • Artwork [Cover Bas-relief] – Gene Szafran
  • Composed By [Original] – Modest Mussorgsky
  • Performer [Electronically Created By], Liner Notes – Isao Tomita*
  • Producer – Plasma Music, Inc.

Notes

Similar to Tomita - Pictures At An Exhibition, but with following differences on back cover:
- Price code (DG) added at bottom-right of notes section.
- Manufacturing credits in English and French, all capitals:

MANUFACTURED AND DISTRIBUTED IN CANADA
BY RCA LIMITED, RECORD DIVISION
101 DUNCAN MILL ROAD, DON MILLS, ONTARIO
FABRIQUE ET DISTRIBUE AU CANADA PAR
RCA LIMITEE — DIVISION DE DISQUES
101 DUNCAN MILL ROAD, DON MILLS, ONTARIO

Jacket: © 1975, RCA Records, New York, N.Y.
Labels: ℗ 1975 - RCA Records.

On the label, the numbering of tracks on side B is misleadingly written as follows:
"2. Limoges 3. Catacombs; 3:56
Cum Mortuis In Lingua Mortua 2:06"
Track B5 is called "Great Gat Of Kiev" on the label.

Use of "RCA Records", vs. "RCA, Inc." on later versions, suggests a release between 1975 and 1979.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, etched): ARL1-0838 A² TX
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched): ARL1-0838-B³ TX
  • Price Code: DG

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
ARL1-0838 Tomita Pictures At An Exhibition ‎(LP, Album) RCA Red Seal ARL1-0838 Canada 1975
RCALP3010 Tomita Moussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - Tomita ‎(LP, Album) RCA RCALP3010 UK 1975
ARL1-0838 Tomita Pictures At An Exhibition ‎(LP, Album) RCA ARL1-0838 Israel 1975
ARL1-0838 Tomita Pictures At An Exhibition ‎(LP, Album, RE) RCA Red Seal ARL1-0838 Canada Unknown
ARL1-0838 Tomita Cuadros De Una Exposición ‎(Cass, Album, RE) RCA ARL1-0838 Spain 1977