we unearthed a box of music CDs from the clutter in our room
for some reason, it also includes a 2001 copy of RollerCoaster Tycoon for Windows 95/98
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*rolls some dice*
okay, which one of these random CDs should we play for ourselves next?
(It looks like most of the Borodin and Mussorgsky were performed by the Vienna Philharmonic with Rafael Kubelík conducting, but two were performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with William Steinberg and three were performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra with Herbert von Karajan, André Cluytens, and Constantin Silvestri, once each.)
(We don't know who any of these people are.)
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...apparently we will find out what kind of music they get up to, though - Borodin and Mussorgsky it is!
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Alexander Borodin's Symphony No. 2 in B Minor (1876): I'm liking this so far. I don't think we have the vocabulary to talk about details, but we like the spaces this is creating.
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Yeah, that was a good choice. I think Borodin's Symphony No. 2 in B Minor was our favorite selection on the album - it was mostly Borodin, which makes us wonder a little if the Mussorgsky was in part included to attract audiences - but it was all nice to listen to. Thanks, y'all.
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@packbat That's not uncommon in classical music stuff--put a big-name composer in just to attract people and then mostly play the stuff by other composers that you want to play. Mussorgsky doesn't feel quite as well known as the composers this is usually done with (like bach, beethoven, mozart, schumann, brahms, etc) but he's definitely more well-known than borodin (whose music we are wholly unfamiliar with, should check it out sometime)
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@Felthry *nods!*
Looking at the label, it looks like this was a CD release collating several LPs from decades earlier, so it wasn't hard for them to stick a couple of Mussorgsky's hits on there.
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