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Freddy Kempf plays Mussorgsky / Ravel / Balakirev | BIS BISSACD1580

Freddy Kempf plays Mussorgsky / Ravel / Balakirev

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISSACD1580

Barcode: 7318599915807

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 2nd June 2008

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Two years after his last release on BIS, Freddy Kempf returns to present a programme featuring three central works in the great virtuoso repertoire for solo piano. Each piece has the qualities in terms of characterisation and timbre that have resulted in well-known orchestral arrangements.

Pictures from an Exhibition was composed following the death of Mussorgsky’s friend, the painter and architect Viktor Hartmann. Balakirev’s Islamey was composed five years earlier and was long regarded as the most difficult work in the entire piano repertory, and in fact, when Ravel 1908 composed Scarbo, the third movement of Gaspard de la Nuit, he specifically wanted to write something that would be even more difficult.

Freddy Kempf enjoys a reputation as an explosive and physical performer but also as a highly sensitive artist.

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