Paul Lewis - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Schumann: Fantasie, Op.17 (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 215 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 150 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC902096 | Time: 01:04:41
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 215 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 150 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC902096 | Time: 01:04:41
On this recording, Paul Lewis performs two major works of the keyboard repertoire. Decidedly programmatic, Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is more commonly heard today in Ravel's orchestral version. However, the original for solo piano is both a technical tour-de-force and a brilliant example of the composer's coloristic gifts. The pairing is Schumann's Fantaisie Op.17, a work whose movements originally had evocative titles (Ruin, Triumphal Arch, Constellation). The 'program' was removed before publication, but the 'pictures' Schumann intended listeners to imagine remain.