Arturo Llamas: >Hi Dear List members: I would like to know just a little more about >Mussorgsky's "Pictures" I mean how many orchestrations are? Just two? >I mean Ravel & Gortschakov only? By the way, who was Gortschakov? Any >good on-line source? Any excelent recording? Thanks in advance. I love this work. Years ago, I read about the orchestrations of it. I dimly recall a figure at that time around 30. The first arrangement was by a Russian by Tushmalov, a Rimsky pupil. This has been recorded, but I don't know whether it was ever transferred to CD. I've heard arrangements by Hamilton Harty, Tomita, Stokowski, Ravel (of course), Gortschakov, and even Ward Swingle. When I was taking orchestration classes, selections from Pictures were always popular choices with students. Steve Schwartz