Claire Booth & Christopher Glynn - Mussorgsky: Unorthodox Music (2021) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. The Goat (A Society Tale)
02. Memories of Childhood: I. Nanny and I
03. The Nursery: I. With Nanny
04. The Nursery: II. In the Corner
05. Memories of Childhood: II. Nanny Locks Me in a Dark Cupboard
06. The Nursery: IV. With the Doll
07. The Nursery: VI. Hobby Horse
08. Porte-enseigne Polka
09. Desire
10. Impromptu-passionné
11. From My Tears
12. Hopak of the Merry Young Ukrainians
13. Night
14. Hopak
15. Oh, How Your Eyes Look At Me Sometimes
16. Oh, You Drunken Sot!
17. Intermezzo in modo classico
18. Songs and Dances of Death: III. Trepak
19. Méditation: Album Leaf
20. The Leaves Rustled Softly
21. Pictures at an Exhibition: Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua
22. Sunless: I. Within Four Walls
23. Sunless: VI. On the River
24. Rêverie



First Percy Grainger: Folk Music, then Edvard Grieg: Lyric Music, and now Modest Mussorgsky: Unorthodox Music – a logical sequence in soprano Claire Booth’s and pianist Christopher Glynn’s growing AVIE discography, interspersing a selection of under-represented songs with solo piano works by this most individual and idiosyncratic of all Russian composers. Claire Booth and Christopher Glynn approach Modest Mussorgsky's music in the spirit of a storyteller, tracing an arc of life from innocence to experience that is arranged across a prologue and four “scenes” – Nursery, Youthful Years, Marriage and Loneliness – taking their cue from the colorful tableaux of the composer’s operas. Individual numbers from the great song cycles – Youthful Years, Nursery, Sunless, and Songs and Dances of Death – are juxtaposed with works from Mussorgsky’s more unorthodox output, all delivered by Claire Booth and Christopher Glynn with disarming affect.

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