Jan Schulmeister - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Scriabin: Five Preludes, Op. 16 - Rachmaninoff: Six moments musicaux, Op. 16 (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade I
02. Pictures at an Exhibition: I. Gnomus
03. Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade II
04. Pictures at an Exhibition: II. Il vecchio castello
05. Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade III
06. Pictures at an Exhibition: III. Tuileries
07. Pictures at an Exhibition: IV. Bydlo
08. Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade IV
09. Pictures at an Exhibition: V. Ballet of the Chicken in their Shells
10. Pictures at an Exhibition: VI. Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuÿle
11. Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade V
12. Pictures at an Exhibition: VII. Limoges, le marché – La grande nouvelle
13. Pictures at an Exhibition: VIII. Catacombae - Sepulchrum romanum
14. Pictures at an Exhibition: Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
15. Pictures at an Exhibition: IX. The Hut on Fowls´ Legs - Baba Yaga
16. Pictures at an Exhibition: X. The Great Gate of Kiev
17. Five Preludes, Op. 16: No. 1 in B Major, Andante
18. Five Preludes, Op. 16: No. 2 in G-Sharp Minor, Allegro
19. Five Preludes, Op. 16: No. 3 in G-Flat Major, Andante cantabile
20. Five Preludes, Op. 16: No. 4 in E-Flat Minor, Lento
21. Five Preludes, Op. 16: No. 5 in F-Sharp Major, Allegretto
22. Six moments musicaux, Op. 16: No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Andantino
23. Six moments musicaux, Op. 16: No. 2 in E-Flat Minor, Allegretto
24. Six moments musicaux, Op. 16: No. 3 in B Minor, Andante cantabile
25. Six moments musicaux, Op. 16: No. 4 in E Minor, Presto
26. Six moments musicaux, Op. 16: No. 5 in D-Flat Major, Adagio sostenuto
27. Six moments musicaux, Op. 16: No. 6 in C Major, Maestoso
28. Etude No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 2

So far, the career of the Czech pianist Jan Schulmeister has been distinguished by victories at dozens of international competitions (including the 2019 Cesar Franck Piano Competition in Belgium, the 2021 North International Music Competition in Sweden, and the 2022 Manhattan International Competition in the USA), to which he added Third Prize at the prestigious Cliburn Junior Competition (Dallas, USA) in 2023 at 17 years of age. For his Supraphon debut, he has chosen works of the late 19th century by Russian composers, music that is firmly grounded in the national tradition but that often seeks out and remains open to stimuli from the surrounding world. The oldest of them, Mussorgsky, was a loner without any depth of academic training, but he greatly advanced the boundaries of musical expression. In Pictures at an Exhibition, he accompanies listeners at an imaginary exhibition of paintings by his late friend, the painter and architect Viktor Hartmann. Rachmaninoff wrote his lovely cycle of piano pieces Moments musicaux under time pressure while facing a profound existential and creative crisis. His classmate Scriabin, no less brilliant a pianist, chose the path of a visionary and an experimenter as a composer, as we can hear from an early opus he wrote for piano (at age 16), the Etude in C sharp minor, Op. 2, No. 1. His later Five Preludes, Op. 16 (1895) reflect the omnipresent Impressionism of Paris at the end of the century. In this repertoire, Jan Schulmeister can demonstrate all of his qualities - virtuosic technique and depth of musical feeling.

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