I am originally from Odessa , Ukraine . I have heard Pictures at an Exhibition many times . This performance is absolutely the best . I thank you for posting this video . Spasiby . Dyakuyie .
As a Ukrainian, you'll maybe like my humble version of the closing piece in the video "The Great Gate of Kiev - By my MIDI Virtual Orchestra" on CZcams that I created with all my affection and empathy for the Ukrainian people.
Epic in every way. I felt that Myung-Whun Chung was not 'just' conducting. He felt every note from each member of the orchestra. A spiritual experience, way beyond mere entertainment or enjoyment. Thank you to every player and to all the staff associated with the Orchestra. Slava Ukraine. D
I really like him as a conductor. I especially like the fact he uses his hands and not a baton, as his hands are very expressive, and helpful to the orchestra, as is his facial expressions. Both the Ravel orchestration and the original piano, are both beautiful in thier own way.
Lovely moment at 3:20 when the orchestra goes silent except the horns. Poor old tuba even has a brief solo, earlier. Maestro graciously applauds his orchestra before turning to face the audience. Nicely done!
Agreed! It is one the greatest passages in all orchestral classical (the genre as opposed to the era/style) music! Without getting too technical, part of the reason is because of Mussorgsky's unusually broad harmonic palette (esp. for the 1870's) which creates tension by moving through distantly related keys! It never ceases to amaze me! Mussorgsky paved the way for Debussy, Stravinsky, and much of early 20th century music!
If it’s true what is said, “art washes away the dust of life” then listening to Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” is like standing naked in a car wash.
Our high school band director had us play "Great Gate" for a baccalaureate. I love this piece because it was the only time I ever got to play first trumpet. Of course, we sounded nowhere this good.
Just watching how the music flows through this conductor brings tears to my eyes. This performance of The Great Gate of Kyiv is absolutely, stunningly brilliant. It is very doubtful that Mussorgsky ever heard a better performance of The Great Gate of Kyiv than this.
One of the All Time Great classical masterpieces. It’s influence is obvious in almost all Russian music that followed it. God Bless Ravel for his fantastic orchestration. He put a great big cherry on top of the sundae.
Модест Мусоргский проникновенно говорит о душе. Я считаю его великим столпом русской культуры. Идеальный мелодист. В "Картинках с выставки" он завещал нам свой шедевр, возвеличивающий эту великую страну. Мы желаем, чтобы он никогда не был забыт своими соотечественниками, и надеемся, что в этой великой колыбели великих композиторов родится еще больше таких великих выразителей на радость нам.
I dont know why this makes me cry! Am I the only one who noticed a slower tempo ? I usually hear it played faster but I am no expert...just incredibly moved by this performance. Thanks for sharing it.
This seems the right tempo to my knowledge. I've played it a few times and its great to hear the grandeur and pride but not have it turn into a dirge or a gallop. I loved the way he allowed the music to breathe.
I was so lucky to have earned first clarinet playing this piece! We weren’t great in HS but Im pretty sure I damn near perfected my part! 😩😩💖 I would play 5 hours a day sometimes!!! 💋
This is the orchestral music I want played at my funeral memorial. So much more dynamic with Ravel''s rendition than Mussorgsky's original piano version.
My dad took me to Carnegie Hall when I was 11. It was my first live concert. Bernstein conducted Pictures. I was startled by the Great Gate's explosive finale! From that point forward classical music has never left my life. Chung's interpretation is amazing. I have 3 recordings of the piece and I don't remember any more spirited than this one. I absolutely love it. I'll go back and listen and compare them to this, but I don't feel I'll find one better. Before I read the Notes here, I thought that the emotion of the performance was driven by the current Russian invasion of the Ukraine. Not! The recording was made in 2011. This conductor is incredible and I'm assuming his style here is his style. Time to expore!
It`s an unbelievable masterpiece, from the maestro and the orchestra. He seems not to conduct by hands an gestures but as if he holds hundrets of strings directly to the musicians, and play the instruments himself through them.... Compliments
Does anyone remember ELPs live album from 1972 ? Emereson said that he wanted to turn young folks on to classical music ! And it worked marvelous for myself !
This piece of music was originally written for piano. Maurice Ravel wrote the score for orchestra!!!! It is beautiful, powerful and moving!!!! Bravo!!!!
A Russian composer aboute a Ukranian city. Music unites people all over the world. I also love the lyrics that Emerson Lake and Palmer added to this wonderful piece of music, because the lyrics give hope [Verse 1] Come forth, from love's pyre Born in life's fire Born in life's fire Come forth, from love's fire In the burning, all are yearning For life to be [Refrain] And in pain there will be gain Blasts of new life! Stirring in, salty streams And dark hidden seams Where the fossil sun gleams [Verse 2] They were, sent from the gates Ride the tides of fate Ride the tides of fate They were, sent from the gates In the burning all are yearning For life to be [Instrumental Break: 1:46 - 4:13] [Verse 2 Reprise] They were, sent from the gates Ride the tides of fate Ride the tides of fate They were, sent from the gates In the burning all are yearning For life to be Oh, to be To be! [Outro] There's no end to my life No beginning to my death Death is life
@@arrowman9 First of all, Ukraine was independent in 1918. Second, Ukraine was a separate republic within the USSR with its own Constitution and language, a republic distinct from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Ukraine along with Belarus is one of the founding members of the UN (1945). It existed long before 1991.
*Death isn't life if your sin isn't paid for. Either Jesus Christ paid for your sin on the cross or you're going to bear your sin forever. Today is the day of salvation, only the fool boasts of tomorrow.*
My mother played this suite on the piano many times in public, as a concert pianist in the 1950s-1980s. She's watching over my shoulder as I type this ;-)
The greatness of Ravel's arrangement's ability is beyond description , immeasurable , unfathomable and inspirational Without Mussorgsky and Ravel , and their great performers , the classical music world would have been very lonely and insipid , and the classical music would have been very less . 「the Great Gate of Kiev 」 is a magnificent Requiem for Mussorgsky's departed friend . From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun
Belle interprétation de cette œuvre de Moussorgski et de l'orchestration de Ravel! Beautiful interpretation of this work Mussorgsky and Ravel orchestration! Красивые интерпретации этой работы Мусоргского и Равеля оркестровки!
I once heard the Liverpool Phil play Wagner's Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde. The silence after the final chord seemed to go on forever. It was powerful and perfect. An unforgettable moment.
I don't really know where else this had happened, but in Lang Lang's performance of Horowitz's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 they clap half way through the piece.
If ever there was a piano composition that was in need of orchestration ,it was this. Thank you Ravel..If you're not standing up on the outside at the end of this,you're standing on the inside. .
I appreciate the comment about how Kim Ci Deok was feelig every note. I also remember when I played the tuba, during our GJHS Band performance at Montreal Expo 67. I am so glad I was able to intensly feel the harmony, because it changed my perception of balance, and harmony forever.
At 3:22 when I hear that big shift, I've always thought that this part of the work should be given the Heinrich Biber "Colossal Baroque" treatment a' la Missa Salisburgensis. It is such majestic piece of music that it should be arranged as such.
Saw this performed live at St. George’s Hall, Bradford, England, West Yorkshire a couple of years ago. Had a great seat just above the percussion. Just thrilling
@@truckjos Yes, because this was composed for his friend who was a painter, not for the glory of the Russian Empire. Remember that a government and its people are not the same
This short excerpt of this great work should be played every morning and every night to remind the world of Ukraine's plight! God bless the Ukrainian people! May the great gate never fall....or be destroyed by Putin's nonsensical missles!
The stunning transition from this awesome to majestic and solemn and sorrowful melody is breathtaking and deep moving. I am just intoxicated by this magnificent performance
What a fantastic, emotional and musical performance. I especially like the Concertmaster and at least 3 other violinists coming off their chairs at 3:00 minutes in. Bravo!
I am originally from Odessa , Ukraine . I have heard Pictures at an Exhibition many times . This performance is absolutely the best . I thank you for posting this video . Spasiby . Dyakuyie .
As a Ukrainian, you'll maybe like my humble version of the closing piece in the video "The Great Gate of Kiev - By my MIDI Virtual Orchestra" on CZcams that I created with all my affection and empathy for the Ukrainian people.
I love it when the orchestra takes the rising end of "Baba-Yaga" and goes right into "Kiev" with no pause in between.
The feeling when you're looking at one picture then your eyes dart over to the next
If anybody on that stage has the most fun, it's the conductor
The timpanist and trombonists are having just as much
Trombone part is pretty fun, can’t deny that
@@Txdcblues Tuba part in the quiet middle session is pretty fun also.
The very best Myung!
I think the conductor’s style is ridiculous
Epic in every way. I felt that Myung-Whun Chung was not 'just' conducting. He felt every note from each member of the orchestra. A spiritual experience, way beyond mere entertainment or enjoyment. Thank you to every player and to all the staff associated with the Orchestra. Slava Ukraine. D
I really like him as a conductor. I especially like the fact he uses his hands and not a baton, as his hands are very expressive, and helpful to the orchestra, as is his facial expressions. Both the Ravel orchestration and the original piano, are both beautiful in thier own way.
Modest Mussorgsky was Russian. Wishing the best for both the Russians & Ukrainians.
Get to know the Lord God Almighty if you think a piece of music is a spiritual experience :)
"Slava Ukraine" to music composed by a Russian at a time when a "Ukraine" didn't even exist lol
@@advokata Oh it very much existed back then, maybe not as a country but as a people.
I cry every time. Every single time.
Me too. From the very first time I ever heard it.
In my mind ,if you don't, there's something wrong with you....an unbelievable piece of music
Lovely moment at 3:20 when the orchestra goes silent except the horns. Poor old tuba even has a brief solo, earlier. Maestro graciously applauds his orchestra before turning to face the audience. Nicely done!
7:31 through 8:06 is one of my all-time favorite passages in classical music . . . it never gets old!
I feel like that passage is a little tribute by Mussorgsky to his late friend Hartmann - the painter - who died prematurely.
Its not classical music....
Agreed! It is one the greatest passages in all orchestral classical (the genre as opposed to the era/style) music! Without getting too technical, part of the reason is because of Mussorgsky's unusually broad harmonic palette (esp. for the 1870's) which creates tension by moving through distantly related keys! It never ceases to amaze me! Mussorgsky paved the way for Debussy, Stravinsky, and much of early 20th century music!
... 6:00-6:30 to me
I really love that passages... so elegant!!!
DUUUUUUDe!!!!!!! THIS IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUSLY AMAZING. Great recording
Sensational performance and that brilliant conductor, Terrific !!!!!
If it’s true what is said, “art washes away the dust of life” then listening to Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” is like standing naked in a car wash.
Our high school band director had us play "Great Gate" for a baccalaureate. I love this piece because it was the only time I ever got to play first trumpet. Of course, we sounded nowhere this good.
From Memphis Tennessee, Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler!
When ever this is played on the radio they never play the chaotic opening which is to me is so important to this wonderful piece of music.
That part is the end of the previous baba yaga piece, then comes the final grand gate of Kiev.
Amen to that!
Just watching how the music flows through this conductor brings tears to my eyes. This performance of The Great Gate of Kyiv is absolutely, stunningly brilliant. It is very doubtful that Mussorgsky ever heard a better performance of The Great Gate of Kyiv than this.
Unless you’ve been in an orchestra at least a fraction of this size- you don’t know what joy there is in a happy conductor-!!! It’s HARD 🤤
One of the All Time Great classical masterpieces. It’s influence is obvious in almost all Russian music that followed it. God Bless Ravel for his fantastic orchestration. He put a great big cherry on top of the sundae.
Модест Мусоргский проникновенно говорит о душе. Я считаю его великим столпом русской культуры. Идеальный мелодист. В "Картинках с выставки" он завещал нам свой шедевр, возвеличивающий эту великую страну. Мы желаем, чтобы он никогда не был забыт своими соотечественниками, и надеемся, что в этой великой колыбели великих композиторов родится еще больше таких великих выразителей на радость нам.
This needs several views these days ❤❤
Outstanding version
I dont know why this makes me cry! Am I the only one who noticed a slower tempo ? I usually hear it played faster but I am no expert...just incredibly moved by this performance. Thanks for sharing it.
This seems the right tempo to my knowledge. I've played it a few times and its great to hear the grandeur and pride but not have it turn into a dirge or a gallop. I loved the way he allowed the music to breathe.
This sounds right to me. We played this in concert around 1970. Today I pray for all of Ukraine and the incredibly courageous people there.
It makes me cry, too. So beautiful
Who is looking for this during the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
Me!
FROM MEMPHIS TENNESSEE, JERRY THE KING LAWLER 🤴
We played this as our closer for our field show this year, oh the feeling of that final push!
This may very well be my favourite piece of music, ever. And a very beautiful, masterful version, too.
Thank you for uploading this.
I was so lucky to have earned first clarinet playing this piece! We weren’t great in HS but Im pretty sure I damn near perfected my part! 😩😩💖 I would play 5 hours a day sometimes!!! 💋
4:34 was my fav
Weep for Kiev 🙏
This is the orchestral music I want played at my funeral memorial. So much more dynamic with Ravel''s rendition than Mussorgsky's original piano version.
I' go crazy for orchestra music.
My dad took me to Carnegie Hall when I was 11. It was my first live concert. Bernstein conducted Pictures. I was startled by the Great Gate's explosive finale! From that point forward classical music has never left my life. Chung's interpretation is amazing. I have 3 recordings of the piece and I don't remember any more spirited than this one. I absolutely love it. I'll go back and listen and compare them to this, but I don't feel I'll find one better. Before I read the Notes here, I thought that the emotion of the performance was driven by the current Russian invasion of the Ukraine. Not! The recording was made in 2011. This conductor is incredible and I'm assuming his style here is his style. Time to expore!
The dynamics in this piece are stupendous!
It`s an unbelievable masterpiece, from the maestro and the orchestra. He seems not to conduct by hands an gestures but as if he holds hundrets of strings directly to the musicians, and play the instruments himself through them.... Compliments
Does anyone remember ELPs live album from 1972 ? Emereson said that he wanted to turn young folks on to classical music ! And it worked marvelous for myself !
Yup
When the whole orchestra played one note at 8:22, that was perfect.
Fuck yeah!
BRAVI !
They all dug that note out!
Really great!
Musical frisson
This piece of music was originally written for piano. Maurice Ravel wrote the score for orchestra!!!! It is beautiful, powerful and moving!!!! Bravo!!!!
A Russian composer aboute a Ukranian city. Music unites people all over the world. I also love the lyrics that Emerson Lake and Palmer added to this wonderful piece of music, because the lyrics give hope
[Verse 1]
Come forth, from love's pyre
Born in life's fire
Born in life's fire
Come forth, from love's fire
In the burning, all are yearning
For life to be
[Refrain]
And in pain there will be gain
Blasts of new life!
Stirring in, salty streams
And dark hidden seams
Where the fossil sun gleams
[Verse 2]
They were, sent from the gates
Ride the tides of fate
Ride the tides of fate
They were, sent from the gates
In the burning all are yearning
For life to be
[Instrumental Break: 1:46 - 4:13]
[Verse 2 Reprise]
They were, sent from the gates
Ride the tides of fate
Ride the tides of fate
They were, sent from the gates
In the burning all are yearning
For life to be
Oh, to be
To be!
[Outro]
There's no end to my life
No beginning to my death
Death is life
Russian tsar build the Great gate of Kiev.
TBH when it was written Kiev was perceived as Russian as Moscow or Tver or Novgorod.
@@arrowman9 First of all, Ukraine was independent in 1918. Second, Ukraine was a separate republic within the USSR with its own Constitution and language, a republic distinct from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Ukraine along with Belarus is one of the founding members of the UN (1945). It existed long before 1991.
*Death isn't life if your sin isn't paid for. Either Jesus Christ paid for your sin on the cross or you're going to bear your sin forever. Today is the day of salvation, only the fool boasts of tomorrow.*
the last time I heard this live, I got so choked up at the end. I love this piece so much and the ending really gets me (from about 7:07 onwards)
My mother played this suite on the piano many times in public, as a concert pianist in the 1950s-1980s. She's watching over my shoulder as I type this ;-)
She must be a very skilled pianist then... Original piano version is my preferred one! Congratulations to your mother! :-)
@@giannipellegrini2178 Thank you. Credit her teacher Jacob Gimpel, since her teens.
3:22 to 4:22 - From Memphis, TN, weighing 234 lbs., Jerry "The King" Lawler!
🙌🏾
I still remember playing this in band back in high school. It was epic then, and it is epic now.
This composer gives me chills..... this is someone who lives what he does, not someone going through the motions for a paycheck
Don't forget that the first piece is the Baba Yaga tacet into Le Grande Port de Kiev! Gorgeous pieces, love this performance
The greatness of Ravel's arrangement's ability is beyond description , immeasurable , unfathomable and inspirational
Without Mussorgsky and Ravel , and their great performers ,
the classical music world would have been very lonely and insipid ,
and the classical music would have been very less .
「the Great Gate of Kiev 」 is a magnificent Requiem for Mussorgsky's departed friend .
From
Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun
Belle interprétation de cette œuvre de Moussorgski et de l'orchestration de Ravel!
Beautiful interpretation of this work Mussorgsky and Ravel orchestration!
Красивые интерпретации этой работы Мусоргского и Равеля оркестровки!
Don’t be the guy who claps immediately after the final chord. Just don’t.
I once heard the Liverpool Phil play Wagner's Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde. The silence after the final chord seemed to go on forever. It was powerful and perfect. An unforgettable moment.
I don't really know where else this had happened, but in Lang Lang's performance of Horowitz's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 they clap half way through the piece.
Haaa that was ME!!!
ok
thank you for posting this
excellent conductor
maybe the best of our time
Emerson Lake and Palmer's rendition of this great piece was spot on.
If only music could rule the world fans, let it sound just this good, what a wonderful world this could be, think about it
I have played the tuba and bass trombone parts before, they are difficult but man are they fun.
This soulful conductor and wonderful orchestra‘s performance Ís by far the best, and beyond compare
From
A corner ofcherry blossoms scented Tokyo
If ever there was a piano composition that was in need of orchestration ,it was this. Thank you Ravel..If you're not standing up on the outside at the end of this,you're standing on the inside. .
I appreciate the comment about how Kim Ci Deok was feelig every note. I also remember when I played the tuba, during our GJHS Band performance at Montreal Expo 67. I am so glad I was able to intensly feel the harmony, because it changed my perception of balance, and harmony forever.
awesome
thanks for leaving it up
The percussion, the bell. Spine tingling
So great to *_not_* have the bell drowned out. All the way to the end.
0.00 through 10.00 minutes is sheer perfection
Prophetic track fans, what a great performance, only music is our salvation fans
The struggle but the ultimate glory of this piece I hope inspires all to support Ukrain and Ukrainians. God bless them. 🙌
Excelente calidad de la orquesta, obra maravillosa y el Director vive la obra ,mil gracias
СПАСИБО!!!
Heard this recently at Royal Festival Hall- exhilerating!
only pity with this is that you can't hear the bass drum very well. and it's always so thrilling to hear it booming!
До чего же прекрасно знать, что ты соотечественник такого великого композитора
THE GREAT GATE OF KIEW IS MY MOST LIKED PART OF PICTURES ::: ITS SO EPHIC; IT ALWAYS BLOWS ME AWAY:
At 3:22 when I hear that big shift, I've always thought that this part of the work should be given the Heinrich Biber "Colossal Baroque" treatment a' la Missa Salisburgensis. It is such majestic piece of music that it should be arranged as such.
Tchaikovsky was quoted as saying Mussorgsky had more natural musical talent than anyone he had ever met. This music here shows why
No sound machine no beat machine no auto tune just pure majic love it
Best ever version, what I'd been looking for. I can't listen except maestro Chung's
That good beginning of this masterpiece of Modest Mussorgsky , stiil not been really the as begins this sublime jewel of the music.
Without doubt ..perfection...
Have not seen this conductor for a very long time , thank you .
I wonder how many of us played this in school, and in recent days have been concerned about "The Great Gate of Kiev".
I've watched a half-minute of this and I love how the conductor's intensity matches the music he is helping to produce!
In solidarity
this is just insane... wow!!!
Muziek is emotie,maar met dit orkest en Super dirigent is dit het meest mooiste van de muziek.
El minuto 5.00 y el 8.22 rozan la perfección. Son geniales. Qué maravilla! ¡Qué vigor! ¡Viva Myung-Whun Chung!
TFW an ad pops up right at The Great Gate of Kiev
Saw this performed live at St. George’s Hall, Bradford, England, West Yorkshire a couple of years ago. Had a great seat just above the percussion. Just thrilling
このご時勢、感情移入してしまう。
excelent conductor
Utterly brilliant.
//amaziing the Sviatoslav Richter's 1958 piano performance packs more emotion than a full orchestra
***
LONG LIVE KYIV. LONG LIVE UKRAINE! Let the beautiful passage from 7:30 to 8:50 be a tribute to the besieged people of KYIV !
The gates shall not fall.
Mussorgsky was a Russian; do you still love the piece?
@@truckjos Yes, because this was composed for his friend who was a painter, not for the glory of the Russian Empire. Remember that a government and its people are not the same
@@javierlatorre480 Yes. Thank you.
This short excerpt of this great work should be played every morning and every night to remind the world of Ukraine's plight! God bless the Ukrainian people! May the great gate never fall....or be destroyed by Putin's nonsensical missles!
Beautiful. I enjoyed this immensely.
One of the best (abbreviated) performances of one of the finest pieces of music ever written
Magnificent.
0:45 and YOU get a violin and YOU get a violin and YOU get a...
This is AMAZING
Sencillamente sublime.
¡Maravillosa interpretación!
Myung-Whun Chung is my favorite conductor.
The stunning transition from this awesome to majestic and solemn and sorrowful melody is breathtaking and deep moving.
I am just intoxicated by this magnificent performance
God bless our Ukraine brothers
@@arrowman9 però si sentono diverdi. E Allora?
Conductor is beyond great
Bravo!!!!
What a fantastic, emotional and musical performance. I especially like the Concertmaster and at least 3 other violinists coming off their chairs at 3:00 minutes in. Bravo!
Love the trombone.
Magnificent!
Very good performance. Every section has a significant place. Unison changes from section dialogues.
I personally like Chung’s conducting style
esta melodia de musorgski me encanta me tranpaso a la historia como si estuviera hace 1000 años viendo en carne propia la gran puera de kiev
The ending gives goosebumps