It should be noted that the Mussorgsky work was originally composed for piano and only orchestrated later by Maurice Ravel.

I think I first heard Baba Yaga when I was about 7 or 8 and with no idea of the folklore, the music still scared the shit out of me

I lived in Soviet union as a child. I used to see an animated film based on "Pictures at an exhibition". This is how I get known Musorgskij. Very good way of introducing children to classical music. The same way I learned "Nutcracker" - an animated film without words, just music. I still find those films amaizing!

It's amazing !! It's make me cry that emotion cause I remember when my mom was here ,on Earth and when I was a child and we went to Teatro Municipal during a festivities about classical músic and we ears this wonderful piece. I was 12 years old. Today 59th. Probably I'm crazy, sorry.

I played this piece before. I agree that the gate is magical, especially the ending :)

the great gates of kiev though, that gets me every time.

I got to play both of these with my college orchestra, and it was one of the most fun couple pieces I've ever gotten to play. I burned through probably about 1/4 - 1/3 of my bow hair by the time we had finished with rehearsals and the concert because I went absolutely ham. I was first chair violist in my orchestra, and I've rarely felt as exhilarated playing these two pieces as I did at that concert. Absolutely incredible.

When I was in my senior year of my High School Orchestra, we had the unfortunate shock of the death of our Music Director Mrs. Lottie Toben. She had arranged for us to play THE GREAT GATE OF KEIV with POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE for our graduation march. Our principal told me to give the piano to my girlfriend Lynn and for me to be the Conductor and I was to combine the Band with the Orchestra. We used a series of Gongs and Kettle Drums for the Finale. I fell in love with this piece of music. During the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico I went to the Pawn Shops and told the owners that I would protect their musical instruments from looters if they let me borrow them to teach the children in my community how to play musical instruments and Vocal. One of the owners was very concern about an Orchestral sized Baldwin Baby Grand Piano. Since I lived on top or a mountain that was fortified, he said that I could safeguard the piano. So, the night before the hurricane hit us, I gathered up all of the musical instruments and sheet music and took them to the Bunk House on my farm. From September to February Puerto Rice was without electricity, tap water, the internet and phone service. I taught the children and lots of the adults how to play musical instruments, read music and sing. In November we play Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Beethoven's Sixth and Ave Maria for Thanksgiving. I have but one regret when it comes to this fantastic Masterpiece of Music. I was born with just two arms and ten fingers which consist of two thumbs. With that being said this video deserves A GAZILLION THUMBS UP ALL AROUND!

Theres no place in the world better, for me, than in the middle of an orchestra holding a tuba- belting out the baba yaga and beholding the great gate. Russian Masterpiece!!!!

Pictures at an exhibition is my absolutely fav symphony.

a spirited conductor it's fun just watching him the Great Gate is a glorious piece of music

terrifying and majestic..paints a musical picture..the beginning of Baba Yaga,,,fearsome drums!

I played both of these pieces in a high school orchestra. That was yearssssssssss ago!

orchestration by Ravel is great indeed !

Mussorgsky sublimated regret , sorrow , suffering and a friend's memories into this masterpiece . From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

These are two of my favourite classical songs. Wonderful to listen to!

I FREAKING LOVE THIS PIECE!!!!!

I want to be a gong player. I think I could handle that.

My orchestra's playing this. Such an amazingly well-written piece!

To me these two pieces of music embody terror and awe without any visual support like no other compositions, it is paradoxical that the name of the composition is "Pictures at an exhibition". I hope that some day this could be played on a renewed beautiful and happy Kiev in the future.

My CD 30 years ago had Night On Bald Mountain after this. My ex wife got it in the divorce split and my newer CD had some dances or something after this. I could never get used to it. Now I have to cue Night On Bald Mountain on GoogleTubes to run right after this and I'm OK again. Re-synchronized.

I just am intoxicated by this overwhelming performance . There is nothing else to add From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

This was a fun one as a tuba player. I finally got some time to be heard

Very wonderful music ❤️

Una dintre cele mai bune interpretari ascultate.O orchestra de adevarati profesionist.Bravo.

That was truly fantastic. Beautifully played. =)

I first heard this in the mid 1960s as a small boy. I have never forgotten it.

Sweet, I am playing this in May and I came here to check it out.

so beautiful.

Mussorgsky’s “The Great Gate of Kiev” is beautiful, epic, majestic, and awe-inspiring. It would definitely describe the majestic beauty of the painting and gates that it is named after.

Amazing!!!

It s fantastic

Thanks Guys! The conductor himself is happy!

Thank you for this video, more interesting..

I first heard Promenade and these two songs together on Animusic 2.

Percussions sounds AMAZING!!!!!

Thank you.

Wood end juniors school took us here as a school trip i neer forgot the experience im 24 nw and was about 11 12 then

I played this piece with my youth symphony in hs! Lordy it was difficult but damn it was so much fun

Catherine has appeared. It's the killer. Do not die.

Amazing

This is AWESOME!!!!!!

My high school played a version of Pictures for our Halftime show this year, Baba Yaga and Great Gate of Kiev are the closing part, the Catacombs and Parts of the promenade are the second part, and the First part of our show is entirely based on the promenade.

BRAVOOO!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏BRAVOOO!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

いいよねえ！素晴らしいね！うまいね！迫力あるね！ These are the peak of this work . Excellent and powerful performance . 🍎 Deep impression was reaching my soul .

Very beautiful

Thank-you very much to the climax of this work from effulgent Tokyo in profound Japan 🍎

We played this for our high school band concert. I play the flute and I had to play the main melody because we don't have any strings. This piece really gave me a run for my money. But in the end, our band director cried over out performance. We played Pictures At An Exhibition and all of The Second Suite in F by Gustav Holst.

Awesome! original interpretation!!

@5:06- @5:38 is pretty tough on the piano version, esp. when they overlap.

Best song i have heard

wonderful music

Great orchestra, they preformed this piece very well. :D

Excellent 👌🏻

Fabulous.

yeah, the great gate IS that theme being developed further. that theme occurs in between each of the movements in the suite to represent walking in between the pictures at the exibition. so the great gate is the part being expanded further.

We are playing this in our high school orchestra but without the band

I love this 🎵

After listening to this wonderful performance , I might have a dream of Mussorgsky walking in the crowds of somecity in Mother Russia , talking to his late friend . I was certainly seeing Mussorgsky and his late friend in the crowds of somecity in Mother Russia I am a person who believes in reincarnation and the immortality of the soul . After listening to this masterpiece . I might have a dream of Mussorgsky's vexation when he died in poverty , That dream is the ultimate in bliss for me that deeply love and respect and long for Mussorgsky From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

Ah memories from the early 90's Frontier: Elite II. ^^

loved the organ

Brilliant! It is pretty hard to find orchestral (Ravel) version of this on You Tube!

Une œuvre légendaire et magnifique au plus au niveau

Such an oddly fluid transition between pieces...

... GREAT!!! .... i'm also never seen a percussion company up of a step of the orchestra .... very ... powerfull ... very ... good! ....

Sounds so cool

The Fennel arrangement for band is intensely difficult and amazing fun to play!

One of the better versions on youtube. :D

I cannot hear Great Gate of Kiev played without hearing Greg Lake's voice.

*sigh* I really miss playing in an Ensemble, my Guitar class played this in 2008.

lady baba or baby gaga and her late Babar, no glitz or glamour or sexy can ever come up to this Exhibit.

How amazing, what ELP accomplished with merely 3 men, their "wall of sound" to borrow a phrase, that it took a roomful of highly trained musical professionals to express. (Of course, 95% of the sound came from Keith, not to diminish the great excellence of Greg and Carl.)

I thought the video was sped up for a moment... it must be a very tiring however fun experience being in an orchestra.

played this in 7th grade symphony; wish it sounded as good as this orchestra. but it was so much funn

Great！

Russian Folklore: "exists" Mussorgsky: GIVE IT BOSS MUSIC!

Anybody here have heard Emerson lake and palmers cover?

ahh goosebumbs

Stier is a Legend. When he worked with the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie (in Görlitz, Saxony) I began listening to classical music and he strongly influenced my musical taste.

Awesomeness

ELP's version of Pictures at an Exhibition is better than original, but thanks to Mussorgsky for his beautiful music❤

Great !

É incrível como uma obra antes escrita apenas para piano, teve uma reinterpretação para orquestra com a grandiosidade como a que foi feita por Ravel. É extraordinária.

lOve th sOund Of th beautiful viOlin's in th music ..ihts absOlutely beautiful ;') .x

Hell for a bassoon...

Baba Yaga is BAE

Qué bonito cuento el de Baba Yaga...😮

To Jonathon Palmquist - if you listen to the original piano version of this piece, you can see why the conductor had the timpanist make the grace notes more separated, as the timpani takes the color of the lower register of the keyboard in the piece.

my eigth grade orchestra is going to attempt this, if we get anything to this i can cosider myself and my orchestra good

The great geat of kiev always brings a tear to my eye. I can't help it from happening. What an absolutely outstanding piece of music. The modern left wing youth claim that white people have no culture. I beg to differ.

@courtneysimpson88 Great! It is my pleasure! The conductor ;-)

I enjoyed That version of The great gates of kiev!

Came here by accident.. And found out where Madness of the Crowds by Helloween is "stolen" (probably on purpose as the intro is played exactly as it is here)! Maybe along with many other metal riffs! For those interested, check out this song and this great band..

I'm here because of Samael's song "Baphomet's Throne".

I think this guy was under some Baba-Yaga's spell... Great vid! ;)

The first time I heard this,40+ years ago,it was recorded by the London Festival Orchestra conducted by Stanley Black. The album was simply entitled RUSSIA.

I think that Mussorgsky’s “Hut on Hen’s Legs” sounds really spooky, scary and suspenseful. It is true and faithful to the legend of Baba Yaga.

2:50 is my favourite part. So fun to play

🌞 WUNDERSCHÖN.... ....danke, für den Wegweiser! 💫🕊👱‍♀️

Yes... These huge pipes in front are the biggest pipes you can see if you look at some big organs... They are about 64 feet tall and play very deep tones... (If you are familiar with organ stops, these are Gravissima 64' stops)...