Review of Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain

Pictures at an Exhibition is fairly excellent, especially the portion representing the witch Baba's Yaga's house on chicken legs. I can really see that thing tromping through the Russian forest!
However, Night on Bald Mountain is what sells it for me. This music will make anything nefarious, even the act of brewing your morning coffee. This is stuff for malicious and supernatural doings in the dead of night. In fact, this is the soundtrack for the night the Clown God of insanity paid a visit to Madame Fognozzle's Home for Wayward Orphans. And yes, I cackle when I hear it. Who doesn't?