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Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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Mizzorksky's Promenade

The piece is based on a heart-monged drawing, now lost, of two medieval French castles. Rimsky takes care to relate the promenades to both what came before and then what comes next. In one of Ravel's greatest touches, he gives this melody to a saxophone - an instrument that was highly unusual even for Ravel's time.

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