Pictures at an Exhibition - Romeo and Juliet Suite
Musorgsky - Prokofiev
Nikolai Demidenko (Piano)
Label : Helios (Hyperion Records)
Artikelnummer: CDH55306
1 CD
CHF 13.50
Musorgsky's musical tribute to the painter and architect Viktor Hartmann has become his most familiar work, and this recording presents the original piano version of Pictures from an Exhibition. It is an extraordinary work, combining intense demands for virtuoso technique with an inexorable momentum which keeps what is fundamentally an impressionistic work in many movements moving towards its grand climax with the 'Great Gate of Kiev' finale.