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Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version)
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Instrumental » Piano Solos
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Throughout this enthralling and warmly recorded performance, Osborne maximises colour and atmosphere, yet manages to achieve a freshness of approach without recourse to idiosyncratic mannerisms.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st January 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Instrumental
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Pletnev dazzles in the Mussorgsky, caressing its sublime poetry with a velvet-gloved sensitivity while throttling its chilling angularities into piano-shattering submission. His Tchaikovsky... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2010, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The uncanny, shimmering half-lights of "Catacombs", the bustle of the "Market Place at Limoges" and the majestic expanse of "The Great Gate of Kiev" show the dynamic range and perception of... — More…
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Building a Library, July 2002, Historic Choice
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Khatia Buniatishvili offers a very individual and often imaginative account of Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Whereas most pianists stride through the opening 'Promenade' with a real... — More…
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Lewis has a natural empathy for Schumann, revelling in the first movement's impulsive changes of mood and projecting wonderfully calm inner reflection at the outset of the third. He emphasises... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Building a Library, May 2016, First Choice
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For fans of the contemporary virtuoso, this disc is not only stupendously recorded, but a sign that standards these days are extraordinarily high in this area. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2008, Editor's Choice
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…the ferocity of much of Mussorgsky's piano-writing is tempered by Ravel with a dazzling but typically Gallic elegance. And this makes it no exaggeration to claim that a single instrument comes... — More…
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22-year old Russian Boris Giltburg is completely inside Musorgsky's multiple personalities… There are some riveting crystalline staccatos and accurate but always musical sudden accents for... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2006, Instrumental Choice
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He might be termed the last of the great individualists among the pianist fraternity, an artist whose credo stems from his teacher, the great virtuoso Josef Hofmann. It is a school of personal... — More…
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Pictures at an Exhibition & Three Movements from Petrushka
transcribed for organ by Jean Guillou
Jean Guillou (organ)
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