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A true celebration is to welcome the New Year with one of the best orchestras in the world. The Gala from Berlin 2007 presents the outstanding Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle with works by the Russian composers Alexander Borodin and Modest Mussorgsky – including his most well-known piece “Pictures at an Exibition”. PROGRAMME: Alexander Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from “Prince Igor”, Symphony No. 2 in B minor; Modest Mussorgsky: Prelude to the opera “Khovanshchina”, Pictures at an Exhibition (Orchestrated by Ravel)