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Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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The Dead in a Dead Language

Morsseur-Sach gave a Latin title with the dead in a dead language. This is the first movement where the promenade melody is now folded into one of the pictures. It alternates between these imposing cries of pain, with the echoes returning back. The creative spirit of the departed Hartmann leads me toward the skulls and addresses them. A pale light radiates from the interior of the skulls.

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