EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Pictures At An Exhibition OR UK N MINT LP PINK ISLAND PROG
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EMERSON LAKE & PALMER: Pictures At An Exhibition
ORIGINAL UK ISLAND RECORDS (HELP 1) FIRST PRESSING (November 1971) OF ELP's' SUPERB, "Pictures At An Exhibition" LP
PRESSED ON QUALITY HEAVY WEIGHT VINYL WITH THE BLACK ISLAND LABELS WITH LARGE PINK i
FIRST PRESS MATRIX: HELP 1 A-1U (etched 'PORKY') / HELP 1 B-1U (etched 'PECKO')
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL HEAVYWEIGHT CARD, MATT GATEFOLD SLEEVE MADE BY "Howards Printers (Slough) Ltd."
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED ISLAND COMPANY INNER SLEEVE WITH PINK ISLAND i LOGO.
RECORD AND GTEFOLD SLEEVE ARE IN NEAR MINT CONDITION.
Pictures at an Exhibition was one of the seminal documents of the progressive rock era, a record that made its way into the collections of millions who never heard of composer Modest Mussorgsky and knew nothing of Russia's Nationalist "Five" or artist/architect Victor Hartmann, whose work was the inspiration for Mussorgsky.
Chronologically, it was Emerson, Lake & Palmer's third LP release (they didn't regard it as an "official" album, as it was comprised of only part of a longer live performance)
It worked on several levels that allowed widely divergent audiences to embrace it, it teased the brain with its mix of melody and heavy rock, and for anyone with some musical knowledge, serious or casual, it was a sufficiently bold use of Mussorgsky's original to stimulate hours of delightful listening.
It wasn't the first treatment of a classical piece in this manner by any means -- Keith Emerson had done several previously with his earlier group the Nice -- but it was the first to reach a mass audience or get heavy radio play (at least of excerpts), and introduced the notion of "classical rock" to millions of listeners, including the classical community, most of whose members regarded this record as something akin to an armed assault.
Those with less hidebound sensibilities appreciated Emerson's rollicking and delightful "Blues Variations" -- which bridged the gap between Tarkus and Trilogy -- and Greg Lake's lyrical adaptations of "Promenade," "The Sage," and "The Great Gates of Kiev." It does some violence to Mussorgsky in the process, but it is also the most concise, energetic, and well-realised live release in ELP's catalogue
SIDE 1: Promenade / The Gnome / Promenade / The Sage / The Old Castle / Blues Variation
SIDE 2: Promenade / The Hut of Baba Yaga / The Curse of Baba Yaga / The Hut of Baba Yaga / The Great Gates of Kiev (The End) / Nut Rocker
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