 | St. John's Night On Bare Mountain by Mussorgsky
Buy used from: $50.03 A Penguin Guide rosette disc and 'key' recording. Includes the very rare Rimsky arrangement for chorus/bass soloist of 'Night on Bare Mountain.' The BPO plays magnificently! Pure digital opulence...
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 | Modest Mussorgsky: St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain
Buy used from: $12.98 A different listing of the above Sony CD -- it doesn't matter which you order, but you must order one!
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 | Claudio Abbado Conducts Mussorgsky
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $7.08 A rosette disc in the '99 Penguin Guide. Has Mussorgsky's original version of 'Night on Bare Mountain' (pre-Rimsky) -- however, most of this disc is duplicated on the next CD w/ the BPO. Or get both!
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 | Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Buy new: $32.99 / Used from: $6.99 Listed in the Gramophone Guide, which considers this disc to supersede the preceding LSO disc b/c of the glorious BPO. You must hear 'Joshua,' a minor masterpiece -- it's sublime, glorious, beautiful!
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![Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole; La Valse [Germany]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4114J86V2CL._SL75_.jpg) | Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole; La Valse [Germany] by Mussorgsky
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $4.94 Some like this LSO version of 'Pictures,' but I think the preceding BPO disc is preferable. Still, Abbado always worked well with the LSO -- a fine recording.
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 | Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov / Kotscherga, Ramey, Lipovsek, Larin, Leiferkus, Langridge, Abbado by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Buy new: $34.47 / Used from: $22.97 Most seem to prefer Gergiev's two-version, 5-disc set of this opera, but I still prefer Abbado with the unsurpassed BPO in full cry -- the greatest Russian opera, and this is still the best recording.
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 | Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina - Abbado
Buy new: $59.98 / Used from: $30.00 Yes, this opera was subsequently completed by Shostakovich and Stravinsky (not too shabby), but don't let that deter you -- the old Mussorgsky magic is here in full, and Abbado realizes all of it!
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