MUSSORGSKY - PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
RACHMANINOFF PIANO WORKS
Performed by Sam Rotman, Concert Pianist ~
Recorded: 2000
Recorded on a Hamburg Steinway Concert Grand Piano
Modest Mussorgsky wrote Pictures
at an Exhibition after attending a memorial exhibit for his friend,
artist Victor Hartmann. It took place in February 1874 at the exhibition
gallery of St. Petersburg
Architectural Association. Mussorgsky had such a moving experience as he
walked through the
exhibition that 20 days later he had completed one of the greatest works for the
keyboard, Pictures at an Exhibition.
Sergei Rachmaninoff was one of
the 20th Century's greatest pianist and composers. Rachmaninoff,
who possessed enormous hands and had a great command of the keyboard, was able
to create some
marvelous sounds from the keyboard. The six selections on this recording
demonstrate a wide range of
colors and moods that are unmistakably Russian.
Pictures at an Exhibition Mussorgsky, 1839 - 1881
1. Promenade (1:35)
2. The Gnome (2:27)
3. Promenade (:50)
4. The Ancient Castle (5:01)
5. Promenade (:26)
6. The Tuileries (Children Quarreling After Play)
(:56)
7. The Polish Ox-Cart (3:01)
8. Promenade (:43)
9. The Ballet of the Chicks in their Shells (1:02)
10. The Two Polish Jews, One Rich, the Other Poor (2:15)
11. Promenade (1:21)
12. Limoges, The Market Place <--
CLICK TO HEAR AUDIO SAMPLE (1:23)
13. The Catacombs: Roman Sepulcher (1:24)
14. The Dead Speaking in a Dead Language (Promenade) (1:38)
15. The Hut on Fowl's Legs, Baba Yaga (3:17)
16. The Great Gate of Kiev (5:23)
Rachmaninoff, 1873 - 1943
17. Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2 (4:23)
18. Etude - Tableau in G minor, Op. 33, No. 8 (4:37)
19. Prelude in D minor, Op. 23, No. 3 (4:13)
20. Moment Musical in B minor, Op. 16, No. 3 (4:47)
21. Prelude in G-sharp minor, Op. 32, No. 12 (2:58)
22. Etude-Tableau in E-flat major, Op. 33, No. 7 (1.58)
Playing Time: 55 minutes 31 seconds
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SAM ROTMAN, CONCERT PIANIST