Mussorgsky Wood Pictures at an Exhibition Complete Proms Performance

Sir Henry Wood s version of Pictures at an Exhibition dates from 1915. It was only the second orchestration of Mussorgsky s piano set, the first being that by Mikhail Tushmalov, a pupil of RimskyKorsakov. Like the Tushmalov version, Wood s is not complete, since he omits all but the first of the Promenades and makes considerable changes and abridgements to the music throughout. However, when the Ravel version appeared a few years later, Wood s disappeared from view while Ravel s became the preeminent