Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition & Rachmaninov: arr. for piano quartet

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Release Date: 21st Sep 2018
Catalogue No: 0301116BC
Label: Berlin Classics
Length: 57 minutes

Rachmaninoff: Études-tableaux, Op. 39 (arr. D. Mommertz for piano quartet)

Work length10:46

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Études-tableaux, Op. 39 (arr. D. Mommertz for piano quartet): No. 6 in A Minor: Allegro, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"

Track length2:58

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Études-tableaux, Op. 39 (arr. D. Mommertz for piano quartet): No. 2 in A Minor: Lento assai, "The Sea and the Seagulls"

Track length7:48

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Rachmaninoff: Études-tableaux, Op. 33: No. 6 in E-Flat Minor: Non allegro - Presto (arr. D. Mommertz for piano quartet)

Work length1:52

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Études-tableaux, Op. 33: No. 6 in E-Flat Minor: Non allegro - Presto, "The Fair" (arr. D. Mommertz for piano quartet)

Track length1:52

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Études-tableaux, Op. 39 (arr. D. Mommertz for piano quartet)

Work length11:49

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Études-tableaux, Op. 39 (arr. D. Mommertz for piano quartet): No. 7 in C Minor: Lento, "Funeral March"

Track length8:17

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Études-tableaux, Op. 39 (arr. D. Mommertz for piano quartet): No. 9 in D Major: Allegro moderato, "March"

Track length3:32

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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Work length33:10

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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. G. Gruzman and D. Mommertz for piano quartet): Promenade

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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. G. Gruzman and D. Mommertz for piano quartet): I. Gnomus

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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. G. Gruzman and D. Mommertz for piano quartet): Promenade

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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. G. Gruzman and D. Mommertz for piano quartet): II. Old Castle

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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. G. Gruzman and D. Mommertz for piano quartet): Promenade

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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. G. Gruzman and D. Mommertz for piano quartet): III. Tuileries

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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. G. Gruzman and D. Mommertz for piano quartet): IV. Bydlo

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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. G. Gruzman and D. Mommertz for piano quartet): Promenade

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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. G. Gruzman and D. Mommertz for piano quartet): V. Ballet of the Chickens in their Shells

Track length1:12

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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. G. Gruzman and D. Mommertz for piano quartet): VI. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle

Track length2:21

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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. G. Gruzman and D. Mommertz for piano quartet): VII. Limoges

Track length1:11

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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. G. Gruzman and D. Mommertz for piano quartet): VIII. Catacombae (Sepulcrum romanum)

Track length2:19

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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. G. Gruzman and D. Mommertz for piano quartet): VIII. Con mortuis in lingua mortua

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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. G. Gruzman and D. Mommertz for piano quartet): IX. The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga)

Track length3:24

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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. G. Gruzman and D. Mommertz for piano quartet): X. The Great Gate at Kiev

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The internationally renowned Fauré Quartett is releasing the world’s first-ever recording of Pictures at an Exhibition and Études-Tableaux in their versions for piano quartet on the Berlin Classics label.

It’s the Roaring Twenties. That musical jack-of-all-trades, Sergei Koussevitsky, Director of Music with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for twenty-five years, commissions the orchestration of two world-famous works: Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky and the Études-Tableaux by Sergei Rachmaninov. And who does Koussevitsky choose for this task? Why, none other than the two great composers Maurice Ravel and Ottorino Respighi. Their orchestrations lay the foundations for numerous other arrangements of those works. More than 80 years later, Dirk Mommertz, a member of and pianist with the Fauré Quartett, has arranged both of these works anew – this time for piano quartet.

“A chamber-music ensemble, with piano and strings, is ideally suited to present the entire tonal spectrum,” explains Dirk Mommertz. Violinist Erika Geldsetzer, violist Sascha Frömbling, cellist Konstantin Heidrich and Mommertz at the piano have been an entity for over 25 years now and are justifiably acknowledged as one of the most influential piano quartets in the world. They are renowned for branching out into new territory; they are not afraid of leaving the well-trodden path, so it comes as no surprise that the Fauré Quartett have recorded for the first time, and are about to release, their own arrangements of Pictures at an Exhibition and the Études-Tableaux on one album.

The mesh of relationships which binds Mussorgsky’s composition of 1874 and Rachmaninov’s of 1911-1918 with Koussevitsky’s commissions to Ravel and Respighi, now ends 150 years later with the Fauré Quartett in the 21st century. The versions for piano quartet bring to the works an unexpected palette of colours. They are flexible, yet dense; more tangible than when played by a whole orchestra, yet none the less thrilling – works possessing unique soul and intense colouring, with as-yet-unheard facets and turns; works that exhibit great spans of upheaval and fading tranquillity.

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