Dreams and Tales: Mussorgsky · Scriabin Michele Campanella

• Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881): Pictures at an Exhibition:
• 1 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade I 01:44
• 2 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Gnomus 02:28
• 3 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade II 00:59
• 4 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Old Castle 04:58
• 5 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade III 00:34
• 6 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Tuileries Gardens 01:10
• 7 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Bydło 03:42
• 8 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade IV 00:44
• 9 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Ballet of the Chickens in their Shells 01:15
• 10 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle 02:20
• 11 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade V 01:41
• 12 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Market-Place at Limoges 01:29
• 13 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Catacombs (Sepulcrum romanum) 01:51
• 14 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Con mortuis in lingua mortua 02:12
• 15 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga) 03:27
• 16 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate of Kiev 05:16
• Alexander Scriabin (1872 - 1915): Sonata n. 3, Op. 23:
• 17 Scriabin: Sonata n. 3, Op. 23: I. Drammatico 07:46
• 18 Scriabin: Sonata n. 3, Op. 23: II. Allegretto 02:54
• 19 Scriabin: Sonata n. 3, Op. 23: III. Andante 05:16
• 20 Scriabin: Sonata n. 3, Op. 23: IV. Presto con fuoco 05:35
• Alexander Scriabin:
• 21 Scriabin: Valse, Op. 38 06:05
• Total Runtime 01:03:26

Info for Dreams and Tales: Mussorgsky · Scriabin

Praised in Gramophone magazine for his "vividly individual" release of Liszt's 'Annes de plerinage' in which he "strikes just the right balance between devotion and poetry", legendary pianist Michele Campanella returns to Odradek with an album of music by Mussorgsky and Scriabin.

Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' are often heard in orchestral arrangements, but it is in their original guise for the piano that we get closest to the composer's extraordinary and colourful vision. From the noble 'Promenade' theme to the grotesquery of 'Baba-Yaga's Hut on Fowl's Legs' to the majestic 'Great Gate of Kiev', Mussorgsky and Campanella take us with them on this scintillating tour, painting in sound the images witnessed by the composer at that exhibition. Scriabin's colourful visions were very real, a product of his synaesthesia combined with his ecstatic spirituality. We hear two relatively early works which anticipate elements of his later style: the seductive Sonata No. 3 and the rarely-heard 'Valse', Op. 38.

As Michele Campanella explains in the album booklet, these works have long been close to his heart: "Mussorgsky's 'Pictures' and the Sonata No. 3 by Scriabin have been with me for 50 years". Campanella brings this exceptional insight to his performances of these brilliant and beautiful Russian works.

Michele Campanella, piano

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