Pictures At An Exhibition: The Paintings Of Bob Peak
Leonard Slatkin & Los Angeles Film Orchestra
Pictures At An Exhibition: The Paintings Of Bob Peak is a 2026 Warner Classics album that reimagines Mussorgsky’s famous gallery‑walk concept for the world of film art, pairing Leonard Slatkin and the Los Angeles Film Orchestra with ten contemporary composers. Across 11 tracks, the program places Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (in orchestral form) alongside ten brand‑new movements, each inspired by a different painting or illustration by Bob Peak, the legendary movie‑poster artist behind West Side Story, Superman, Apocalypse Now, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, various Olympic images, and more.
The new “pictures” are penned by a who’s‑who of film composers—Michael Abels, Jeff Beal, Marco Beltrami, Bill Conti, Mychael Danna, Ihab Darwish, Don Davis, Harry Gregson‑Williams, Maria Newman, and Marc Shaiman—each translating a specific Peak image (Audrey Hepburn, Mother Teresa, Jack Nicklaus, Jesse Owens, the New York World’s Fair, and others) into a distinct orchestral character piece. Recorded in Los Angeles in 2024, the album aims for a vibrant, cinematic sound: critics note the virtuosity and vivid engineering, and emphasize how the pieces collectively form a modern, film‑inflected counterpart to Mussorgsky’s original, turning the project into a cross‑disciplinary celebration of orchestral color, visual imagination, and the shared language of film and concert music.
Pictures At An Exhibition: The Paintings Of Bob Peak
Leonard Slatkin & Los Angeles Film Orchestra
Pictures At An Exhibition: The Paintings Of Bob Peak is a 2026 Warner Classics album that reimagines Mussorgsky’s famous gallery‑walk concept for the world of film art, pairing Leonard Slatkin and the Los Angeles Film Orchestra with ten contemporary composers. Across 11 tracks, the program places Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (in orchestral form) alongside ten brand‑new movements, each inspired by a different painting or illustration by Bob Peak, the legendary movie‑poster artist behind West Side Story, Superman, Apocalypse Now, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, various Olympic images, and more.
The new “pictures” are penned by a who’s‑who of film composers—Michael Abels, Jeff Beal, Marco Beltrami, Bill Conti, Mychael Danna, Ihab Darwish, Don Davis, Harry Gregson‑Williams, Maria Newman, and Marc Shaiman—each translating a specific Peak image (Audrey Hepburn, Mother Teresa, Jack Nicklaus, Jesse Owens, the New York World’s Fair, and others) into a distinct orchestral character piece. Recorded in Los Angeles in 2024, the album aims for a vibrant, cinematic sound: critics note the virtuosity and vivid engineering, and emphasize how the pieces collectively form a modern, film‑inflected counterpart to Mussorgsky’s original, turning the project into a cross‑disciplinary celebration of orchestral color, visual imagination, and the shared language of film and concert music.