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Most listeners are familiar with Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, in either the original version for piano or the popular orchestration by Maurice Ravel. Yet there have been several attempts to render the suite orchestrally, often by conductors who wanted to put their own stamp on the music. Peter Breiner presents his own take on Pictures with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and it is an innovative interpretation that exploits the sonorities of the 21st century orchestra, though without recourse to conventional combinations. Breiner mixes and matches instruments with considerable liberty and ingenuity, and creates timbres that are often exotic and unexpected. There is also a corresponding freedom in his adaptation of the piano music, which fits more naturally in the orchestral layout. Especially notable is Breiner's heavy reliance on percussion, for which he seems to employ every available instrument to create a nearly kaleidoscopic effect. Included in this all-Mussorgsky program are Breiner's orchestrations of Songs & Dances of Death, and The Nursery, in which the vocal lines are incorporated within the orchestration, sometimes divided between instruments, but usually assigned to one instrument when the melody calls for such treatment. The performances of these works by Breiner and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra are dazzling, vibrant, and energetic, and the sound of the digital recording is open and spacious, which gives the massive orchestra room to stretch out.
© TiVo
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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. P. Breiner) (Peter Breiner)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
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New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
Pesni i plyaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death) (arr. P. Breiner for orchestra) (Peter Breiner)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
Detskaya (The Nursery) (arr. P. Breiner for orchestra) (Peter Breiner)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Peter Breiner, Composer, Conductor
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
Album review
Most listeners are familiar with Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, in either the original version for piano or the popular orchestration by Maurice Ravel. Yet there have been several attempts to render the suite orchestrally, often by conductors who wanted to put their own stamp on the music. Peter Breiner presents his own take on Pictures with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and it is an innovative interpretation that exploits the sonorities of the 21st century orchestra, though without recourse to conventional combinations. Breiner mixes and matches instruments with considerable liberty and ingenuity, and creates timbres that are often exotic and unexpected. There is also a corresponding freedom in his adaptation of the piano music, which fits more naturally in the orchestral layout. Especially notable is Breiner's heavy reliance on percussion, for which he seems to employ every available instrument to create a nearly kaleidoscopic effect. Included in this all-Mussorgsky program are Breiner's orchestrations of Songs & Dances of Death, and The Nursery, in which the vocal lines are incorporated within the orchestration, sometimes divided between instruments, but usually assigned to one instrument when the melody calls for such treatment. The performances of these works by Breiner and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra are dazzling, vibrant, and energetic, and the sound of the digital recording is open and spacious, which gives the massive orchestra room to stretch out.
© TiVo
Details of the original recording : 78:23 - DDD - Enregistré du 7 au 9 février 2012 au Michael Fowler Centre - Notes en anglais
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 27 track(s)
- Total length: 01:18:13
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Peter Breiner
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Naxos
- Genre: Classical
2013 Naxos 2013 Naxos
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