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Background: From nostalgic memories, the sound of bells, the winds of the steppes, to visions of a flickering future; Russian piano music, from Mussorgsky to Scriabin, finds its perilous equilibrium in a romantic past, beyond the immense, icy landscapes, with intimate confessions from heartbroken souls, with a virtuosity vying with the opera and the orchestra yet which retains the gentleness of a lullaby, of a child's laughter, of a disenchanted poem scribbled down one evening of drunken melancholy. From Tchaikovsky to Rachmaninov, by way of Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and Mussorgsky, it is a journey that takes us from St Petersburg to Moscow, across that vast country with its universal emotions.

The piano is the instrument of kings, in the nineteenth century above all. Rachmaninoff, as we know from his recordings, was probably the greatest of them all: virtuosic and inspired, a visionary and a poet. Scriabin, before he injured his right hand (whence the Prelude for left hand op.9), also planned a solo career. Mussorgsky, too, was an excellent pianist.

Only Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and Tchaikovsky were no more than competent amateurs on the piano, but that did not prompt them to give up composing for the instrument - far from it, in fact.

CATALOGUE NR: MIR169
RECORD LABEL: Mirare
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 10.49
RELEASE DATE: 05-Mar-2012

COMPOSER: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
TITLE: Voyage en Russie
TRACKS: Flight Of The Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov). Prelude in C Sharp Minor Opus 9 Number 1 For The Left Hand (Scriabin). Etude-tableaux in E flat minor Opus 39 Number 5 (Rachmaninov). Prelude in E major Opus 15 Number 4 (Scriabin). Etude in C Sharp Minor Opus 2 Number 1 (Scriabin). Scherzo in A flat major (Borodin). Daisies Opus 38 Number 3 (Rachmaninov). Song Without Word In A Minor Opus 40 Number 6 (Tchaikovsky). Etude in D Sharp Minor Opus 12 Number 8 (Scriabin). Song Without Word in F major Opus 2 Number 3 (Tchaikovsky). Prelude in C Sharp Minor Opus 3 Number 2 (Rachmaninov). Mazurka in D Sharp Minor Opus 3 No 5 (Scriabin). Valse Scherzo Opus 7 (Tchaikovsky). Prelude in E flat Minor Opus Number 16 (Scriabin). Prelude in G minor Opus 23 Number 5 (Rachmaninov). Jeux D'enfants-les Quatre Coins (Mussorgsky). Une Larme (Mussorgsky). Vers La Flamme Opus 72 (Scriabin).
ARTISTS: Claire Marie Le Guay      

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