Emerson Lake & Palmer – Pictures At An Exhibition
(Manticore Records K33501)
Matrix No’s: A3/B3
Gatefold Sleeve in Nr MINT- condition
– some slight wear to edges
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970. The band consisted of keyboardist Keith Emerson, singer, bassist and producer Greg Lake and drummer and percussionist Carl Palmer. With nine RIAA-certified gold record albums in the US, and an estimated 48 million records sold worldwide, they were one of the most popular and commercially successful progressive rock bands in the 1970s, with a musical sound including adaptations of classical music with jazz and symphonic rock elements, dominated by Emerson’s flamboyant use of the Hammond organ, Moog synthesizer, and piano (although Lake wrote several acoustic songs for the group).
Pictures at an Exhibition is an album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1971 as a live album and re-released in 2001 as a remastered edition including both live and studio versions of Modest Mussorgsky’s classical piece Pictures at an Exhibition. The original live album was recorded at Newcastle City Hall in North East England. The opening track of the album was played on a Harrison & Harrison pipe organ which was installed in the City Hall in 1928. The organ console is some way above stage level, at the top of a stepped terrace used for choral performances. The drum roll connecting the opening track to the next served to cover Emerson’s dash back down to the stage.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Promenade” | Mussorgsky | 1:58 | |
| 2. | “The Gnome” | Mussorgsky/Palmer | 4:18 | |
| 3. | “Promenade” | Mussorgsky/Lake | 1:23 | |
| 4. | “The Sage” | Lake | 4:42 | |
| 5. | “The Old Castle” | Mussorgsky/Emerson | 2:33 | |
| 6. | “Blues Variation” | Emerson/Lake/Palmer | 4:22 | |
| 7. | “Promenade” | Mussorgsky | 1:29 | |
| 8. | “The Hut of Baba Yaga” | Mussorgsky | 1:12 | |
| 9. | “The Curse of Baba Yaga” | Emerson/Lake/Palmer | 4:10 | |
| 10. | “The Hut of Baba Yaga” | Mussorgsky | 1:06 | |
| 11. | “The Great Gates of Kiev” | Mussorgsky/Lake | 6:37 | |
| 12. | “The End: Nutrocker“ | Tchaikovsky/Fowley | 4:26 |
Personnel
- Keith Emerson – pipe organ, Hammond C3 and L100 Organs, Moog Modular Synthesizer, Ribbon controller, Clavinet
- Greg Lake – bass, acoustic guitar, vocals
- Carl Palmer – percussion, drums
Production
- Producer: Greg Lake
- Engineer: Eddie Offord
- Remastering: Joseph M. Palmaccio
- Arrangers: Keith Emerson, Greg Lake
- Cover design: William Neal
- Cover painting: William Neal
- Artwork: William Neal
- Photography: Nigel Marlow, Keith Morris
- Lyrics: Greg Lake, Richard Fraser
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