Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition/...

So far, the career of the Czech pianist Jan Schulmeister has been distinguished by victories at dozens of international competitions (including the 2019 César Franck Piano Competition in Belgium, the 2021 North International Music Competition in Sweden, and the 2022 Manhattan International Competition in the USA), to which he added Third Prize at the prestigious Cliburn Junior Competition (Dallas, USA) in 2023 at 17 years of age. For his Supraphon debut, he has chosen works of the late 19th century by Russian composers, music that is firmly grounded in the national tradition but that often seeks out and remains open to stimuli from the surrounding world. The oldest of them, Mussorgsky, was a loner without any depth of academic training, but he greatly advanced the boundaries of musical expression. In Pictures at an Exhibition, he accompanies listeners at an imaginary exhibition of paintings by his late friend, the painter and architect Viktor Hartmann. Rachmaninoff wrote his lovely cycle of piano pieces Moments musicaux under time pressure while facing a profound existential and creative crisis. His classmate Scriabin, no less brilliant a pianist, chose the path of a visionary and an experimenter as a composer, as we can hear from an early opus he wrote for piano (at age 16), the Etude in C sharp minor, Op. 2, No. 1. His later Five Preludes, Op. 16 (1895) reflect the omnipresent Impressionism of Paris at the end of the century. In this repertoire, Jan Schulmeister can demonstrate all of his qualities – virtuosic technique and depth of musical feeling.

1: Promenade
2: Gnomus
3: Promenade II
4: Il Vecchio Castello
5: Promenade III
6: Tuileries
7: Bydlo
8: Promenade IV
9: Ballet of the Chicken in Their Shells
10: Samuel Goldenberg Und Schmuÿle
11: Promenade V
12: Limoges. Le Marché (La Grande Nouvelle)
13: Catacombae - Sepulcrum Romanum
14: Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua
15: The Hut On Fowl's Legs (Baba Yaga)
16: The Great Gate of Kiev
17: No. 1 in B Major. Andante
18: No. 2 in G-sharp Minor. Allegro
19: No. 3 in G-flat Major. Andante Cantabile
20: No. 4 in E-flat Minor. Lento
21: No. 5 in F-sharp Major. Allegretto
22: No. 1 in B-flat Minor. Andantino
23: No. 2 in E-flat Minor. Allegretto
24: No. 3 in B Minor. Andante Cantabile
25: No. 4 in E Minor. Presto
26: No. 5 in D-flat Major. Adagio Sostenuto
27: No. 6 in C Major. Maestoso
28: Etude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 2, No. 1

Composer: Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninov, Modest Mussorgsky

Number of Discs: 1

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