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Pictures at an Exhibition
by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Robert Schumann, Emmanuel Chabrier, Modest Mussorgsky, Eiji Oue, Minnesota Orchestra
Product Group: Music
Studio: Reference Recordings
ISBN: B0000015AF
EAN: 0030911107925
UPC: 030911107925
Audio CD
Release Date: 1997-09-23
SKU: 07090383
Condition: New New
Comments: New audio CD with remainder hole in case sealed by factory tape and shrink wrap.
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Customer Reviews
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You'll hear why Oue didn't last long
Rating  (2)
Date: 2005-09-18
0 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
I guess the Minnesota orchestra hoped to get the next Ozawa when they hired oue, but he has vanished, never to reaappear. He isn't up to professional conducting in many technical regards, and although the sonics here are really demonstration quality, the readings don't come close to rivaling even the average Pictures at an Exhibition.
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Pictures of an Exhibition
Rating  (5)
Date: 2002-05-22
1 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
One of the best classic classicals. Orchestation is superior.
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HDCD
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-03-24
Like most recent Minn Symp Orch Reference recordings this is a 20-bit HDCD playable on regular 16-bit CD players
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Magnificent and Lush! Oue is amazing!
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-06-03
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Eiji Oue conducts this compilation of turn-of-the-century pre-modernist meditations with superb diction and clarity. He is a truly gifted conductor and gets more out of the Minnesota Orchestra than I ever imagined possible. Cut 23, "The Great Gate at Kiev," is simply magnificent. Mussorgsky captures the essence of standing in front of a work of art-the sense of being awed, then puzzled, then enlightened. Oue follows his lead by capturing the essence of a world poised to leap into a new century: The fear, the magic, and the optimism. It's lush and absolutely gorgeous.
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Reference recording
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-08-04
12 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
If music is the tonal expression of thought than Ravel was one of the greatest minds in music of the twentieth century. His experiments have lifted music out of impressionism into expressionism in the same way as in literature and painting. The lesser-known Overture to Shéhérazade is wonderful in its intimacy and so different from the interpretation of the fairytale by Rimsky-Korsakov (although you should listen to the performance under Bernstein). The Pictures of an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky are lively and impressive, especially the last movement with resounding bells and a triumphant brass-section. I think the compilation is well chosen, all pieces sound rather French in style, even the Schumanns. The sound quality is immaculate, full of little details, sound stage is perfectly balanced.
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