Ravel’s vivid orchestration of Mussorgsky’s gallery has long eclipsed the piano original in popularity. Mark Pullinger ranges across 10 decades in his search for the finest recording
Trompe l’oeil: Visual illusion in art, especially as used to trick the eye into perceiving a painted detail as a three-dimensional object. — Dictionary
Since time unremembered, artists and creative types have often had some sort of muse, something that gives them inspiration and pushes them beyond their own creative limits to put forth works of genius. Artists over the century have been inspired and fueled by dreams, people, places, events, and sometimes even voices in their head or