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Following their album of French music for two pianos, father and son Vladimir and Vovka Ashkenazy revel in their musical heritage with this dazzling programme by the great composers of Russia. Three of the works have been arranged by Vovka Ashkenazy himself, including Mussorgsky's Night On The Bald Mountain and the album's virtuosic finale, Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from his opera Prince Igor. His two-piano arrangement of Glinka's lilting Valse-fantaisie is itself based on Sergei Lyapunov's arrangement for four hands.
Night on the Bald Mountain
Suite No.1 for 2 pianos, Op.5 (Fantaisie-tableaux) - 1. Barcarole
Suite No.1 for 2 pianos, Op.5 (Fantaisie-tableaux) - 2. A Night for Love
Suite No.1 for 2 pianos, Op.5 (Fantaisie-tableaux) - 3. Tears
Suite No.1 for 2 pianos, Op.5 (Fantaisie-tableaux) - 4. Russian Easter
Waltz Fantasy
Fantasy in A minor, Op.posth.
Prince Igor - Arr. Vovka Ashkenazy / Polovtsian Dances - Introduction: Andantino
Prince Igor - Arr. Vovka Ashkenazy / Polovtsian Dances - Allegro vivo
Prince Igor - Arr. Vovka Ashkenazy / Polovtsian Dances - Allegro
Prince Igor - Arr. Vovka Ashkenazy / Polovtsian Dances - Presto
Prince Igor - Arr. Vovka Ashkenazy / Polovtsian Dances - Moderato alla breve
Prince Igor - Arr. Vovka Ashkenazy / Polovtsian Dances - Presto
Prince Igor - Arr. Vovka Ashkenazy / Polovtsian Dances - Allegro con spirito
February 2012
“It's terrific to hear Ashkenazy playing Russian Romantic repertoire again. The performance of the Rachmaninov Suite is more reflective and mellow than Ashkenazy's version with Previn - there seems to be greater expansiveness and flexibility in the phrasing...The result is a delightful and entertaining disc, and one that's sumptuously recorded too”
April 2012
****
“full of taut and virtuosic double pianism.”
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Night on the Bald Mountain
