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that are positive and love the ones that are negative,
so it's very complicated. But so far I have been
pleased with both the recording and the
performances, and the reviews have been positive.
That's the short answer.
I think you're a bit hard on yourself, but if you
could start off by maybe describing a little bit
about Pictures at an Exhibition, and what you see
the piece to be.
Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is one of the
greatest, one of the most iconic, one of the most
statuesque, but also one of the most complex pieces
of music in classical music. It was recently voted at
number 10, the tenth most popular piece in classical
music. Which is an enormous testament to the fact
that not only did it speak to people when it was
written, but it speaks to people equally today. It's a
piece that comprises nine distinct movements (I
think it's nine, I haven't actually counted them,
you'd think that I would have counted them) and it's
a piece that is many things, it's not just one thing. It
is the love of visual art, the love of good visual art
but through the eyes of a musical genius; it's also an
illustration of the culture at a particular point in
time. It's an illustration of a culture that is really like
a person who is stepping on a borderline, it's the old
world meets the new, and Mussorgsky in 1875 was
poised at this meeting point, at this chasm, between
the old world and the new. But it's also a testament
and an illustration to humanity in general, it's