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Bilder einer Ausstellung

Bilder einer Ausstellung Classical

Bilder einer Ausstellung

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Beauty is found in Life. Reality stands above Art. This idea, proposed by Nikolai Chernyshevsky in his Æesthetic Relations of Art to Reality (1855), became a manifesto of sorts in the artistic circles of Czarist Russia in the second half of the 19th century. Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) was most enthusiastc in adopting the precepts of Chernyshevsky. Most of his works— and the piano pieces especially—are descriptions of moments and situations from everyday life. Recorded at Radio Bremen’s concert hall, as a co-production between Celestial Harmonies and Radio Bremen, this is the last recording by Nikolaus Lahusen prior to his untimely death on May 15, 2005, at the age of 44. It features a Hamburg Steinway piano that he had selected for himself and had to Radio Bremen’s concert hall. In the beginning of the 1870’s Mussorgsky had gotten to know the painter and architect Viktor Hartmann. But Hartmann, who was not yet 40, died in 1873 from heart disease, and Mussorgksy was devastated. The influential art critic and essayist, Vladimir Stov, initiated a memorial exhibition where 400 of Hartmann’s works were shown. This exhibition inspired Mussorgsky to write a suite for solo piano, with each movement based on Hartmann’s paintings. Pictures At An Exhibition has inspired many composers and arrangers to orchestrate the suite; and for many listeners around the world, accustomed to Maurice Ravel’s famous orchestral version, the idea that Pictures At An Exhibition was originally a piano work will come as a surprise. Leopold Stokowski and Vladimir Ashkenazy have also clothed the work in full orchestral garb, and numerous arrangements for br choir, organs, guitars and synthesizers exist, too. But the original piano version still has its own fascination, and arguably allows more room for the listener’s own interpretation. Whereas Pictures at an exhibtion is a piano work that became successful in a variety of orchestral versions, the reverse is true for St.
Product details
Release Date:
2005-09-19
Publication Date:
2005-09-19
Publisher:
Naxos Deutschland Musik & Video Vertriebs-GmbH / Poing
Languages:
Published: German
ISBN13:
0013711324822
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
110 g
Height:
121 cm
Width:
137 cm
Thickness:
9 cm
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