The Washington Post, April 5th, 2000
The Washington premiere of Emile Naoumoff's transcription of "Pictures at an Exhibition," a two-piano work based on Mussorgsky's classic, proved to be the weakest link in an otherwise rewarding program Monday at Lisner Auditorium, a recital by Malinee Peris and Tzvetan Konstantinov. "Pictures" is one of music history's most transcribed compositions. Written in 1874 for solo piano, it has evolved into an orchestral tour de force and is best known in Maurice Ravel's symphonic arrangement. A largely self-taught composer, Modest Mussorgsky was both a genius and a charlatan, and he wrote strikingly...
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