Here's the section of Paintings at an Exhibition that relates to the picture at the top of the diary.

Mikhail Pletnev : BabaYaga-Gate of Kiev

And here's something (slightly!) more contemporary with interesting timbres.  Note that their huge success was based around the two female voices (two different timbres, one softer one sharper--well, that's my take); and then in the background all the different instruments popping in and out, most people probably didn't notice at the time, but the people (Benny and Bjorn) who put them in knew exactly what they were doing.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.