Isao Tomita
Pictures at an Exhibition
RCA
RCCD-102
(1975)
Electronic
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LP, 11
Tracks, 37:16
Length
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| 01 |
Promenade; Gnomes |
Modest Mussorgsky |
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04:46 |
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| 02 |
Promenade; The Old Castle |
Modest Mussorgsky |
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06:21 |
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| 03 |
Promenade; Tuileries |
Modest Mussorgsky |
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01:28 |
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| 04 |
Bydlo |
Modest Mussorgsky |
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03:18 |
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| 05 |
Promenade; Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells |
Modest Mussorgsky |
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02:06 |
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| 06 |
Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle |
Modest Mussorgsky |
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03:07 |
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| 07 |
The Market Place at Limoges |
Modest Mussorgsky |
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01:14 |
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| 08 |
Catacombs |
Modest Mussorgsky |
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02:39 |
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| 09 |
Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua |
Modest Mussorgsky |
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02:10 |
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| 10 |
The Hut of Baba Yaga |
Modest Mussorgsky |
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03:45 |
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| 11 |
The Great Gate at Kiev |
Modest Mussorgsky |
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06:22 |
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| Packaging |
Standard LP sleeve |
| Sound |
Stereo |
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| Synthesizer |
Isao Tomita |
| Cover by |
Gene Szafran |
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| Index |
#
3465 |
| Owner |
Dave |
| Tags |
Modern Classical, Experimental, Ambient |
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Isao Tomita has a real talent for transcribing classical music on the synthesizer. 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. It has become a stroll through an art gallery deep in the Milky Way. This is not quite Tomita's best work but it is close. -- Jim Brenholts (allmusic.com)
