Mussorgsky’s 1874 suite Pictures at an Exhibition, a tribute to the versatile artist Viktor Hartman, has proved perhaps the most popular of all the composer’s works, both in its original version for piano and in the colourful orchestral version of Ravel presented here. Linked by Promenades for the visitor to the exhibition, Mussorgsky represents in music a varied collection, from the Market of Limoges and the Catacombs to the final Great Gate of Kiev. This recording also presents two versions of the orchestral favourite Night on the Bare Mountain, an orchestral witches’ sabbath.