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Night on Bare Mountain

Composer: Modest Mussorgsky
Performers: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Donald Runnicles
Recording date: 25 September 2014
Date of broadcast: 25 September 2014

Although composed by Mussorgsky, it was Rimsky-Korsakov who arranged the music which became the famous masterpiece. Listen out for the thundering percussion and violent strings depicting the stormy heights of the dark mountain and the Witches' Sabbath.

Composer: Modest Mussorgsky
Performers: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Donald Runnicles
Recording date: 25 September 2014
Date of broadcast: 25 September 2014

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