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"The performance was consistently brilliant ... an incisive account of Ravel's extraordinary Trio in A minor ... dangerous and radical." -- New York Times A number of years ago, Jon Klibonoff made an arrangement of the work for piano trio and clarinet (including bass clarinet), thus retaining the string and wind colorations of the piece. The daring decision to arrange it for piano trio was made collaboratively by the ensemble in many long sessions where each member carefully examined his or her part for possibilities in the process of transcription. Includes all fifteen movements of Ravel's orchestration and what has now become the accepted version of Mussorgky's original piano composition. Mussorgsky's inspiration for Pictures at an Exhibition was the paintings of his brilliant young artist and architect friend Victor Hartmann, whose early death at thirty-nine so grieved Mussorgsky that he decided to write a piece in his memory. Ravel's Piano Trio in A minor, recognized as one of the greatest chamber works of the twentieth century, premiered in Paris in 1915.