Claire-Marie Le Guay - Voyage en Russie (2012) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Le vol du bourdon
02. Prélude en ut dièse mineur opus 9 n°1 pour la main gauche
03. Etude-tableau en mi bémol mineur opus 39 n°5
04. Prélude en mi majeur opus 15 n°4
05. Etude en ut dièse mineur opus 2 n°1
06. Scherzo en la bémol majeur
07. Daisies opus 38 n°3
08. Chant sans parole en la mineur opus 40 n°6
09. Etude en ré dièse mineur opus 8 n°12
10. Chant sans parole en fa majeur opus 2 n°3
11. Prélude en ut dièse mineur opus 3 n°2
12. Mazurka en ré dièse mineur opus 3 n°5
13. Valse scherzo opus 7
14. Prélude en mi bémol mineur opus n°16
15. Prélude en sol mineur opus 23 n°5
16. Jeux d'enfants-les quatre coins
17. Une larme
18. Vers la flamme opus 72


Composers
Borodin, Alexander Profirevich (1833-87)
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-81)
Rachmaninov, Sergey Vassilievich (1873-1943)
Rimsky Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich (1844-1908)
Scriabin, Alexander Nikolayevich (1872-1915)
Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich (1840-93)

From nostalgic memories, the sound of bells, the winds of the steppes, to visions of a flickering future; Russian piano music, from Mussorgsky to Scriabin, finds its perilous equilibrium in a romantic past, beyond the immense, icy landscapes, with intimate confessions from heartbroken souls, with a virtuosity vying with the opera and the orchestra yet which retains the gentleness of a lullaby, of a child's laughter, of a disenchanted poem scribbled down one evening of drunken melancholy. From Tchaikovsky to Rachmaninov, by way of Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and Mussorgsky, it is a journey that takes us from St Petersburg to Moscow, across that vast country with its universal emotions. The piano is the instrument of kings, in the nineteenth century above all. Rachmaninoff, as we know from his recordings, was probably the greatest of them all: virtuosic and inspired, a visionary and a poet. Scriabin, before he injured his right hand (whence the Prelude for left hand op.9), also planned a solo career. Mussorgsky, too, was an excellent pianist. Only Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and Tchaikovsky were no more than competent amateurs on the piano, but that did not prompt them to give up composing for the instrument - far from it, in fact.

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