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 ...

Imaginary Pictures is the title Kirill Gerstein gives his slightly unexpected pairing of Mussorgsky and Schumann. It's an odd choice for a disc that includes Pictures at an Exhibition – whose ...

Violinist Julian Rhee, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s second “Artist of Distinction” for its 2025-26 season, solos in Benjamin Britten’s “Violin Concerto” with the orchestra and conductor Geoffrey ...

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 ...

Most have heard the famous opening of Mussorgsky/Ravel’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” with its regal brass chorale used in films, TV, video games, and even as WWE entrance music. This year, we mark ...

Here's our guide to 10 of the finest recordings of Mussorgsky's music, from the ever-popular Pictures from an Exhibition to the hidden treasure of the Nursery songs We have been writing about ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...