Enescu & Mussorgsky

The performance [of Pictures] is forthright and effective, without competing with the finest versions already available. But it’s the other major work on Krichel’s disc – George Enescu’s Second... — The Guardian, 28th October 2021 More…

Release Date: 29th Oct 2021
Catalogue No: 0302074BC
Label: Berlin Classics

International Classical Music Awards

2022

Nominated - Solo Instrument

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Alexander Krichel (piano)

Enescu: Suite for Piano No. 2 in D major, Op. 10

Alexander Krichel (piano)

Borodin: Nocturne from Petite Suite

Alexander Krichel (piano)

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One of Germany’s most prominent pianists, Alexander Krichel from Hamburg, has brought together a couple of heavyweights for his first album with Berlin Classics. He places “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Modest Mussorgsky, a central work of the piano literature, side by side with a rarely heard gem by the Romanian composer George Enescu. Enescu’s Second Piano Suite enhances the formal language of the Baroque with Romantic and Impressionist timbres, and entrances the listener with a rich palette of tone colours. To round off the programme, Alexander Krichel plays another work by a composer from Russia’s “mighty handful”, the Nocturne from the Petite Suite by Alexander Borodin.

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28th October 2021

The performance [of Pictures] is forthright and effective, without competing with the finest versions already available. But it’s the other major work on Krichel’s disc – George Enescu’s Second Suite – that provides the curiosity...the suite is certainly a well-mannered piece of French neoclassicism, with enough keyboard flamboyance to put Krichel through his paces.

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