Utwory na płycie:

• Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade I. Allegro giusto nel modo russico; senza allegrezza ma poco sostenuto
• Pictures at an Exhibition - I. The Gnome
• Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade II. Moderato commodo assai e con delicatezza
• Pictures at an Exhibition - II. The Old Castle
• Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade III. Moderato non tanto, pesamente
• Pictures at an Exhibition - III. The Tuileries
• Pictures at an Exhibition - IV. The Ox-Cart
• Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade IV. Tranquillo
• Pictures at an Exhibition - V. Ballet of Unhatched Chicks
• Pictures at an Exhibition - VI. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
• Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade V. Allegro giusto, nell modo russico, poco sostenuto
• Pictures at an Exhibition - VII. Limoges. The Market
• Pictures at an Exhibition - VIII.a In the Catacombs
• Pictures at an Exhibition - VIII.b With the Dead in a Dead Language
• Pictures at an Exhibition - IX. The Hut on Fowl's Legs
• Pictures at an Exhibition - X. The Great Gate of Kiev
• Prélude in B-Flat Major, Op. 2/2
• Étude in F-Sharp Major, Op. 42/4
• Étude in C-Sharp Minor, Op.42/5
• Prélude in C Major, Op. 48/2
• Prélude in B-Flat Major, Op. 23/2 - Maestoso
• Prélude in G-Flat Major, Op. 23/10 - Largo
• Prélude in B Minor, Op. 32/10 - Lento
• Prélude in D-Flat Major, Op. 32/13 - Grave

Modest Mussorgsky:
Pictures at an Exhibition

Alexander Scriabin:
Prélude in B-Flat Major, Op. 2, No. 2
Étude in F-Sharp Major, Op. 42, No. 4
Étude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 42, No. 5
Prélude in C Major, Op. 48, No. 2

Sergei Rachmaninov:
Prélude in B-Flat Major, Op. 23, No. 2
Prélude in G-Flat Major, Op. 23, No. 10
Prélude in B Minor, Op. 32, No. 10
Prélude in D-Flat Major, Op. 32, No. 13

Jimin Oh-Havenith’s fourth album for audite is dedicated to works by Mussorgsky, Scriabin and Rachmaninov, three of the most famous Russian composers of the nineteenth and (early) twentieth centuries. Planned long before Putin’s war in Ukraine, this release now stands as a beacon for the often impaired freedom of art.

The focus is on Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, composed in 1874, which became world-famous in Maurice Ravel’s orchestral version, but whose treatment of the piano still poses interpretative and technical challenges for performers today. Oh-Havenith’s interpretation demonstrates the tonal and dramatic potential which can be unleashed when virtuosity and programmatic vision are brought together. Alexander Scriabin and Sergei Rachmaninov, who achieved legendary fame as professional composer-pianists, continued along this path in their extensive oeuvres with very individual means.

The selection of etudes and preludes composed between 1889 and 1910 which Oh-Havenith has compiled not only demonstrates a consummate mastery of the piano’s possibilities, but also continues the path to world renown for Russian piano music which Mussorgsky had prepared.

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Recording: Schafstall, Marienmünster, September 8 - 10, 2021. Piano: Bösendorfer 280 (Gerd Finkenstein).