from Scriabin: Piano Sonata No 3; Musorgsky: Pictures from an exhibition (SIGCD426) 1 Promenade 1 [1'22] 31 minutes 47 seconds 16 tracks2 Gnomus [2'51] 3 Promenade 2 [0'45] 4 The Old Castle (Il vecchio castello) [4'04] 5 Promenade 3 [0'24] 6 Tuileries. Children quarrelling after play [0'58] 7 Bydło (A Polish Ox-cart) [3'12] 8 Promenade 4 [0'44] 9 Ballet of the unhatched chicks [1'07] 10 Two Polish Jews, one rich, the other poor (Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle) [2'13] 11 Promenade 5 [1'14] 12 Limoges, the market place [1'17] 13 Catacombae. Sepulchrum Romanum [1'45] 14 Con mortuis in lingua mortua [1'41] 15 Baba Yaga (The hut on fowl's legs) [3'15] 16 The Great Gate of Kiev [4'55] 'Winner of international prizes and invariably a Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Alessio Bax … shows himself a young aristocrat of the keyboard intent on purely musical ends. The disc is well recorde ... 'All-conquering performances in fabulous sound; quite possibly my Recording of the Year' (MusicWeb International) 'Bax is young, powerful and a capable interpreter with a natural instinct for drawing out the beauty of a melodic line' (The Whole Note, Canada) |