Colourful Performance Dmitrij Kitajenko conducts Mussorgsky and Prokofiev - heard by STEPHEN FRANCIS VASTA 'Vladislav Sulimsky sings with feeling in a compact, reasonably firm baritone ...'

This is a major program, although its declension precisely reverses what you'd expect.

If you think you know Night on Bald Mountain, brace yourself. Mussorgsky's original version, presented here, is an altogether different animal from the popular Rimsky-Korsakov edition. The phrase structures are irregular, the harmonies more elaborately dissonant, the timbral contrasts starker...

MODEST MUSORGSKY

SERGEI PROKOFIEV

OEHMS CLASSICS

GERMANY

RUSSIA

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

VOCAL MUSIC