Pictures at an Exhibition - Piano Concerto Version (arranged by Lawrence Leonard)
Two Interludes from Kovantchina (orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov & Leopold Stokowski)
Gopak from Sorochinsky Fair (orchestrated by Anatol Liadov)
Pictures from the Crimea (orchestrated by Anatol Liadov)
Scherzo in B flat (orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov)
A Tear-Drop (orchestrated by Hans Kindler)
Night on Bald Mountain (orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov)

Australian conductor Geoffrey Simon is resident in London and has appeared there with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra and English Chamber Orchestra.

Internationally, he has appeared with the Adelaide, Atlanta, Bournemouth, Canberra, City of Birmingham, Fort Worth, Melbourne, Milwaukee, Queensland, Sapporo, Shanghai, St Louis, Sydney, Tasmanian, Vermont and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, the Israel, Moscow, Munich and New Japan Philharmonic Orchestras, the American Symphony, the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and the Australian Opera.

Written after Mussorgsky had met Russian artist and designer Viktor Hartmann, Pictures at an Exhibition is by far Mussorgsky’s most played work. The piece was written when Hartmann gave Mussorgsky two ‘pictures.’ Hartmann very suddenly died aged 39; following his death, a memorial exhibition was put on in St. Petersburg. Mussorgsky donated the two ‘pictures’ which Hartmann had given him before he died. Mussorgsky is said to have based the piece on his experiences at this exhibition, which was in memory of Hartmann. The concerto version is performed here by Tamas Ungar in an arrangement by Lawrence Leonard.

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Recording: All Hallows Church, Gospel Oak, London: February 21-24, April 8-10, 1992; All Saints’ Church, Tooting, London (Night on Bald Mountain): April 16, 1986. Piano for Pictures at an Exhibition supplied by Steinway & Sons, London.