Monica Leone/Michele Campanella: Insieme: Schubert 4 Hands Piano Music

Praised in Gramophone magazine for his "vividly individual" release of Liszt's Annees de pelerinage in which he "strikes just the right balance between devotion and poetry", legendary pianist Michele Campanella returns to Odradek with an album of music by Mussorgsky and Scriabin.

Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition are often heard in orchestral arrangements, but it is in their original guise for the piano that we get closest to the composer's extraordinary and colourful vision. From the noble 'Promenade' theme to the grotesquery of 'Baba-Yaga's Hut on Fowl's Legs' to the majestic 'Great Gate of Kiev', Mussorgsky and Campanella take us with them on this scintillating tour, painting in sound the images witnessed by the composer at that exhibition.

Scriabin's colourful visions were very real, a product of his synaesthesia combined with his ecstatic spirituality. We hear two relatively early works which anticipate elements of his later style: the seductive Sonata No. 3 and the rarely heard Valse, Op. 38.

As Michele Campanella explains in the album booklet, these works have long been close to his heart: "Mussorgsky's Pictures and the Sonata No. 3 by Scriabin have been with me for 50 years". Campanella brings this exceptional insight to his performances of these brilliant and beautiful Russian works

Disc 1
1: Fantasie in F Minor for Piano Duet, D940
2: No. 1 in D Minor
3: No. 2 in B-flat Major
4: No. 3 in E Major
5: No. 4 in F Major
6: Deutscher Mit Zwei Trois
7: Zwei Ländler
8: Rondo for Piano Duet in a Major, ,D951
9: Variations in A-flat Major On an Original Theme, D813

Disc 2
1: No. 1. Allegro Maestoso
2: No. 2. Allegro Ma Non Troppo
3: No. 3. Allegretto
4: No. 4. Allegro Maestoso
5: No. 5. Andante
6: No. 6. Allegro Con Brio
7: Fugue in E Minor, D952
8: Fantasy in G Minor, BWV917
9: Rondo for Piano Duet in D Major, D608

Composer: Franz Schubert

Number of Discs: 2

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