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Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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Mizzorexie's the Promenade

Pictures at an Exhibition by Mizzorexie is a perfect introduction to the composer. The music reminds one of bells, in fact in Ravel's orchestration he adds church bells here to complete the effect. I really do understand what Rimsky-Korsakov and other composers complained about - the music is rough and it lacks polish. But all of these things are only vices in the carefully controlled world of the rules of Western classical music.

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