Pictures at an Exhibition

I have enjoyed listening to Boyk, Pictures at an Exhibition on Performance Recordings PR-7.  Its available in vinyl or CD.  The release issued in 1990 and was mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab.  It is advertised as all analog and that it uses all tube electronics before the recorders.  I see it available used on Discogs and it is mostly inexpensive.  James Boyk was in the music department at Cal Tech. 

I’ve always enjoyed Eiji Oue and the Minnesota Orchestra on Reference Recordings.

I like this one for it's cover art by Josef Albers:

A really impressive and intriguing take on the work is by Khatia Buniatishvili.

An extraordinarily inspirational and fun presentation was from Emerson, Lake and Palmer, when in fall of 1977 they outrageously thought that they could take the show on tour with a 70 piece orchestra. After only a few weeks, they realized the folly of such expense and had to dismiss the orchestra. All were heartbroken as so much fun had been in in the offing, that the orchestra, virtually to the last person said, it's OK... You don't have to pay us. We just want to show to go on! Alas, this was impermissible under union rules, but certainly indicated the enthusiasm for the project. And who knew there were lyrics? Greg Lake, that's who. (He wrote them). This, to me, is truly goodly, spiritually speaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO4lEEigeeo