Night on Bald Mountain for 9-part Brass Ensemble
COMPOSER:
Modest Mussorgsky
PUBLISHER:
Cherry Classics Music
PRODUCT TYPE:
Set
INSTRUMENT GROUP:
Brass Ensemble
Mussorgsky’s iconic tone poem Night on Bald Mountain, completed by Rimsky-Korsakov, inspired by Russian folk literature and legend, conjures up spirits, witches, demons and monsters, but concludes with a happy sunrise ending. The composition was immortalized by Leopold Stokowski’s arrangement of it
Specifications
Composer | Modest Mussorgsky |
Arranger | Elliot Chasanov |
Publisher | Cherry Classics Music |
Instrumentation | 9-part Brass Ensemble |
Product Type | Set |
Instrument Group | Brass Ensemble |
Year of Publication | 2016 |
No. Pages | 42 |
No. | CCM2834 |
Description
Mussorgsky’s iconic tone poem Night on Bald Mountain, completed by Rimsky-Korsakov, inspired by Russian folk literature and legend, conjures up spirits, witches, demons and monsters, but concludes with a happy sunrise ending. The composition was immortalized by Leopold Stokowski’s arrangement of it in the 1940 Walt Disney film Fantasia. Elliot Chasanov has deftly scored the work for 9-part Brass Ensemble in an 8-minute arrangement for advanced performers. Instrumentation is for: Piccolo Trumpet in B-flat 2 Trumpets in B-flat Horn 3 Trombones Euphonium and Tuba