{"product_id":"jan-schulmeister-mussorgsky-scriabin-rachmaninoff-piano-works","title":"Jan Schulmeister- Mussorgsky, Scriabin \u0026 Rachmaninoff: Piano Works (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe virtuosic Supraphon debut of Jan Schulmeister\r\nSo far, the career of the Czech pianist Jan Schulmeister has been distinguished\r\nby victories at dozens of international competitions (including the 2019 Cesar\r\nFranck Piano Competition in Belgium, the 2021 North International Music\r\nCompetition in Sweden, and the 2022 Manhattan International Competition\r\nin the USA), to which he added Third Prize at the prestigious Cliburn Junior\r\nCompetition (Dallas, USA) in 2023 at 17 years of age. For his Supraphon debut,\r\nhe has chosen works of the late 19th century by Russian composers, music\r\nthat is firmly grounded in the national tradition but that often seeks out and\r\nremains open to stimuli from the surrounding world. The oldest of them,\r\nMussorgsky, was a loner without any depth of academic training, but he greatly\r\nadvanced the boundaries of musical expression. In Pictures at an Exhibition, he\r\naccompanies listeners at an imaginary exhibition of paintings by his late friend,\r\nthe painter and architect Viktor Hartmann. Rachmaninoff wrote his lovely\r\ncycle of piano pieces Moments musicaux under time pressure while facing a\r\nprofound existential and creative crisis. His classmate Scriabin, no less brilliant\r\na pianist, chose the path of a visionary and an experimenter as a composer,\r\nas we can hear from an early opus he wrote for piano (at age 16), the Etude\r\nin C sharp minor, Op. 2, No. 1. His later Five Preludes, Op. 16 (1895) reflect the\r\nomnipresent Impressionism of Paris at the end of the century. In this repertoire,\r\nJan Schulmeister can demonstrate all of his qualities - virtuosic technique and\r\ndepth of musical feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e UPC \u0026gt; 099925436520 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Format \u0026gt; New CD \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Label \u0026gt; Supraphon \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Release Date \u0026gt; Release Date: 9.19.25 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46644914716893,"sku":"099925436520","price":317.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4442657-3418316.jpg?v=1754495771","url":"https:\/\/darksiderecords.myshopify.com\/products\/jan-schulmeister-mussorgsky-scriabin-rachmaninoff-piano-works","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}