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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Kirov Orchestra has a venerable old concert hall not far from the Moscow River in St. Petersburg. And they were the ones to premiere Mussorgsky's opera Kovanshchina in 1886. So they have an ...

The real quality that is so apparent in Llyr Williams's direct, unfussy piano playing when heard live might not always transfer so effectively to disc, but in this perhaps unlikely combination of ...

If you were a teenager shopping for albums in late 1971, all you needed to know about Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”—a rock interpretation of Modest Mussorgsky’s 1874 work of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...