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PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITIONEmerson Lake & PalmerSymphonic Prog3.85 | 870 ratings |
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strayfromatlantis
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The famous live album - a stroke of genius or a sacrileg? Well, best of both worlds, I'd hope. Let the
offended be offended - if ELP hadn't took on the works of Bartok, Mussorgsky, Copland, Ginastera,
Janacek etc., I'd never had focused my attention on the originals. Therefore I am really thankful they did
what they did. And they surely brought more kids to classical music then all of the snobs and self
proclaimed connaisseurs yelling "trivialization".The album: I think they've overdone Promenade a bit and some other parts of Mussorgsky's original work might have sounded interesting in ELP's interpretation (e.g. Bydlo). Some songs are indespensible 5 star tracks. The rest are 3-4 stars. Sums up to a total of 4 stars. Favourite Tracks: THE OLD CASTLE/BLUES VARIATIONS, THE HUT OF BABA YAGA Suite and THE GREAT GATE OF KIEV.
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