László Borbély – Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, Balogh Reminiscences of an Exhibition (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 48:41 minutes | 1,92 GB | Genre: Classical
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“A few years ago I composed a large-scale piano piece for László Borbély, entitled Schmuÿle & Samuel Goldenberg. The piece refers to the movement of the same title from Mussorgsky’s well-known piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. Mussorgsky depicts two Jewish figures of very different characters, the driving force of his work being the juxtaposition of musical material inspired by them. This is the only concept I myself have taken as a starting point: a personal, parlando rubato, declamatory musical material and a pronounced, decisive, energetic, chorale-like movement confronted with each other. My resulting piece is thus akin to the Mussorgsky piece through the programme in the background, through the institution of the ‘common ancestor’. In later years, it occurred to me to compose the other “Mussorgsky Pictures” accordingly, and to do so in pairs, by combining one Mussorgsky movement with another – starting from the musical conflict of my Schmuÿle movement. I have christened the series I have thus created “Memories of an Exhibition”.
I dedicated my cycle to László Borbély, one of the most outstanding pianists of our time.” Máté Balogh
Tracklist:
01. László Borbély – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade (01:30)
02. László Borbély – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Gnome (02:58)
03. László Borbély – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Moderato comodo assai e con delicatezza (Promenade) (00:49)
04. László Borbély – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Old Castle (04:38)
05. László Borbély – Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: The Gnome in the Old Castle (02:14)
06. László Borbély – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Moderato non tanto, pesantemente (Promenade) (00:26)
07. László Borbély – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Tuileries (Dispute between Children after Play) (01:02)
08. László Borbély – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Cattle (02:39)
09. László Borbély – Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: Bydło in the Tuileries (01:38)
10. László Borbély – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Tranquillo (Promenade) (00:50)
11. László Borbély – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (01:01)
12. László Borbély – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: „Samuel” Goldenberg and „Schmuÿle” (02:18)
13. László Borbély – Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (01:49)
14. László Borbély – Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: Schmuÿle & Samuel Goldenberg (04:03)
15. László Borbély – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade (01:25)
16. László Borbély – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Market at Limoges (The Big News) (01:27)
17. László Borbély – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Catacombs (Roman Sepulcher) (02:10)
18. László Borbély – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: With the Dead in a Dead Language (02:01)
19. László Borbély – Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: The Big News in the Catacombs (03:35)
20. László Borbély – Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: Baba-Yaga at the Bogatyr Gate (01:20)
21. László Borbély – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Hut on Hen’s Legs (Baba-Yaga) (03:24)
22. László Borbély – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Heroic Gate (in the Old Capital of Kiev) (05:14)
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