The Enchanted Garden: Piano Transcriptions of Russian Fairy Tales by Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov & Stravinsky

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Release Date: 13th Jan 2014
Catalogue No: ES2048
Label: Es-Dur
Length: 60 minutes

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Excerpt, Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila

Work length14:00

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Maria Lettberg

Chernamor's March (Arr. F. Liszt for piano)

Track length6:18

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Berceuse of the Fairies (Arr. S.M. Lyapunov for piano)

Track length3:24

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Battle and Death of Chernomor (Arr. S.M. Lyapunov for piano)

Track length4:18

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Excerpt, Rimsky Korsakov: Le Coq d'Or

Work length4:33

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Maria Lettberg

Hymn to the Sun (Arr. J. Chaloff for piano)

Track length4:33

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Excerpt, Rimsky Korsakov: Snegurochka (The Snow Maiden)

Work length4:04

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Maria Lettberg

Dance of the Tumblers (Arr. I. Mikhnovsky for piano)

Track length4:04

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Excerpt, Rimsky Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan Suite, Op. 57

Work length1:22

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Maria Lettberg

Flight of the Bumblebee (Arr. N.N. Rimskaya-Korsakova for piano)

Track length1:22

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Rimsky Korsakov: Tale of Tsar Saltan Suite, Op. 57, Act IV

Work length7:06

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Maria Lettberg

The Three Wonders (Arr. A. Ziloti for piano)

Track length7:06

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Excerpt, Rimsky Korsakov: Sadko (opera)

Work length2:59

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Maria Lettberg

Song of the Indian Guest (Arr. M. Lettberg for piano)

Track length2:59

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Rimsky Korsakov: Kashchey bessmertnïy (Kashchey the Deathless)

Work length5:20

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Maria Lettberg

Snowstorm [arr. J. Strimer for piano]

Track length5:20

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Stravinsky: The Firebird

Work length20:48

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Maria Lettberg

Introduction (Version for piano)

Track length2:08

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The Enchanted Garden of Kastchei (Version for piano)

Track length1:46

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Dance of the Firebird (Version for piano)

Track length1:21

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Khorovod (Round Dance) of the Princesses [Version for piano]

Track length4:00

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Infernal Dance of All Kastchei's Subjects (Version for piano)

Track length4:28

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Lullaby (the Firebird) [Version for piano]

Track length2:24

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Kashchei's Awakening - Kashchei's Death - Profound Darkness (Version for piano)

Track length1:21

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Disappearance of Kastchei's Palace and Magical Creations - Return to Life of the Petrified Knights … (Version for piano)

Track length3:20

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Following her Scriabin recording for ES-Dur, pianist Maria Lettberg carries listeners off into the magic garden of Russian fairy tales and myths. This enchanting disc presents paraphrases on some well-known Russian operas by Mikhail Glinka and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov as well as Igor Stravinsky’s solo piano version of his ballet, The Firebird. The expert piano transcriptions of the Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov works are made by some equally famous composers - and admirers - such as Liszt, Lyapunov and Rachmaninov.

The sagas, fairy tales and songs tell of transformations, curses and promises from ancient times, which were systematically collected and published in the 19th century. The Russian opera librettists and ballet set designers of this time dug deeply into this treasure trove.

Besides the son of the Tsar Sultan in the form of a bumble-bee, the colourful repertoire on Lettburg’s CD conjures up stamping dwarves, whispering fairies, rumbling snowstorms and gently falling snowflakes; past tears that don’t cry and eggs that cannot be broken; to the wonders of a white many-turreted city, the firebird who presents us with a golden feather, and the fantastical dwarf villain Chernomor (from Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila), whose magic garden was the epitome of Russian orientalism.

One of the most exciting pianists in Europe, Maria Lettberg is a Swedish citizen, but she was born in Riga and currently lives in Berlin. Noted for her unusual concert programmes, her numerous CDs have also attracted international interest. They include piano pieces by Erkki Melartin and Alfred Schnittke and the entire solo piano works of Alexander Scriabin, which she completed with the acclaimed ES-Dur recording, Opus Posthum (2012) of his earliest works.

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