Ravel’s vivid orchestration of Mussorgsky’s gallery has long eclipsed the piano original in popularity. Mark Pullinger ranges across 10 decades in his search for the finest recording The 1881 portrait ...

A stunning suite written by Mussorgsky in honour of a painter friend. Mussorgsky wrote his Pictures at an Exhibition in honour of a friend - a painter called Vladimir Hartmann who had died at the peak ...

Mussorgsky’s “Khovanshchina” has been added onto by Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky and Shostakovich. Now, another composer gets to have his say. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown Reporting from Salzburg, Austria ...

A ‘cradle-to-grave songspiel’ describing the arc of a woman’s life is brilliantly conceived by soprano Booth and pianist Glynn Modest Mussorgsky is indisputably one of the greatest of 19th-century ...

It was as a teenager that the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky was first inspired to write his orchestral poem A Night on the Bare Mountain, in 1867. He was an ambitious young man with dreams to ...

Imagine a composition in which you hear a gnome, feel you are near a haunting castle, or hear cattle rumbling past pulling a heavy load. Classical music lovers have always been attracted to ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This week’s song takes us on a journey from 19th-century Russia to the dance floors of 1970s New York, via Walt ...

You can’t help but love Modest Mussorgsky; not only was he a brilliant composer, he was such a total, Dostoyevskian mess. This month, his great opera Khovanshchina is being performed by the Met after ...

Few of today's leading pianists have a wider range of repertory than Steven Osborne, and it's to the credit of Hyperion that he has been allowed to reflect that range in his discs, instead of being ...

This week would have been the 128th birthday of one of Russian’s most famous composers, Modest Mussorgsky. Some of you might know him as the composer of Pictures at an Exhibition, but all of you know ...