He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period.
He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity,
often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.
Composition : "Modest Mussorgsky - 6 Lieder (1856-1867) "
in the transcription for voice and orchestra .
I. Kolïbel'naya Pesnya (Cradle Song) (1856)
II. Strekotun'ya beloboka (The Magpie) (1867) [4:35]
III. Noch '(Night) (1864) [6:30]
IV. Gde Ti, Zvezdochka? (Where art thou, Little Star?) (1864) [10:21]
V. Ozornik (The Street Urchin) (1867) [14:38]
VI. Pesn 'Yaremi, "Na Dnepre" (Yarema's Song, "On the Dnieper") (1867) [16:24]
Performed :『
【Conductor】Igor Markevitch / Russian State Symphony Orchestra』
【Soprano】Galina Vishnevskaya
Russian State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Igor Markevitch.
Cover image: painting by Rafail Levitsky.
