Mussorgsky / Booth / Glynn- Unorthodox Music (CD)
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 and Chris approach Modest Mussorgsky: Unorthodox 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 and Chris with disarming affect.
Tracklist:
- The Goat (A Society Tale)
- Memories Of Childhood: I. Nanny And I
- The Nursery: I. With Nanny
- The Nursery: II. In The Corner
- Memories Of Childhood: II. Nanny Locks Me In A Dark Cupboard
- The Nursery: IV. With The Doll
- The Nursery: VI. Hobby Horse
- Porte-Enseigne Polka
- Desire
- Impromptu-Passionné
- From My Tears
- Hopak Of The Merry Young Ukrainians
- Night
- Hopak
- Oh, How Your Eyes Look At Me Sometimes
- Oh, You Drunken Sot!
- Intermezzo In Modo Classico
- Songs And Dances Of Death: III. Trepak
- Album Leaf: Méditation
- The Leaves Rustled Softly
- Pictures At An Exhibition: Cum Mortuis In Lingua Mortua
- Sunless: I. Within Four Walls
- Sunless: VI. On The River
- Rêverie
UPC > 822252245721
Format > New CD
Label > Avie
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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 and Chris approach Modest Mussorgsky: Unorthodox 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 and Chris with disarming affect.
Tracklist:
- The Goat (A Society Tale)
- Memories Of Childhood: I. Nanny And I
- The Nursery: I. With Nanny
- The Nursery: II. In The Corner
- Memories Of Childhood: II. Nanny Locks Me In A Dark Cupboard
- The Nursery: IV. With The Doll
- The Nursery: VI. Hobby Horse
- Porte-Enseigne Polka
- Desire
- Impromptu-Passionné
- From My Tears
- Hopak Of The Merry Young Ukrainians
- Night
- Hopak
- Oh, How Your Eyes Look At Me Sometimes
- Oh, You Drunken Sot!
- Intermezzo In Modo Classico
- Songs And Dances Of Death: III. Trepak
- Album Leaf: Méditation
- The Leaves Rustled Softly
- Pictures At An Exhibition: Cum Mortuis In Lingua Mortua
- Sunless: I. Within Four Walls
- Sunless: VI. On The River
- Rêverie
UPC > 822252245721
Format > New CD
Label > Avie
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.