Posted by Rick Denney on September 09, 2003 at 12:18:33:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Omigosh, Look what I've... posted by Useful Answer on September 09, 2003 at 09:01:11:
More specifically, it is in one movement of Ravel's famous orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. There have been something like a couple of dozen orchestrations of this work, and Ravel's gets the most airplay. Other arrangers have used different instruments to portray the oxcart, which suggests to me that Mussorgsky's music isn't crystal clear on the subject. Mussorgsky wrote it for piano four-hands, as I recall (I have a recording of the original, plus a recording of the deservedly obscure Funcek orchestration.)
Rick "who finds the other solos for tuba in Ravel's Pictures more characteristic and more fun" Denney