Margaret Fingerhut - Ukraine- A Piano Portrait (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

With Ukraine’s defence of its sovereign nation against Russia’s invasion in the news and in our conscience, SOMM releases a timely recording that pays tribute to a rich heritage of Ukrainian music that was long subsumed by the former USSR.

Margaret Fingerhut, described by Gramophone as a pianist of “consummate skill and thrilling conviction,” has become increasingly involved in using the power of music to raise money for charitable causes. In 2019, drawing on the stories and music of composers who had to leave their homelands because of war or persecution, she undertook a major recital tour, performing “Far from the Home I Love” at thirty-two venues across the UK to raise money for refugees. In 2022 she collaborated with a young Ukrainian film-maker on a powerful video in support of Ukraine. Margaret Fingerhut was awarded an MBE in the 2024 New Year Honours in recognition of her services to music and charitable fundraising. For SOMM’s recording, UKRAINE: A Piano Portrait, she has selected works written between 1877 and 2005 for a deeply personal recital featuring composers from the country of her grandfather’s birth.

TRACKLIST

1. Margaret Fingerhut - Esquisses de Crimée, Op. 8: No. 1, Les Rochers d'Outche-Coche
2. Margaret Fingerhut - 5 Preludes: No. 1 in E Minor
3. Margaret Fingerhut - 5 Preludes: No. 2 in F-Sharp Major
4. Margaret Fingerhut - Piano Cycle "Love": I. Loneliness, the Sorrow of Love
5. Margaret Fingerhut - Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes No. 2, Op. 18 "Dumka-Shumka"
6. Margaret Fingerhut - 3 Preludes, Op. 4: No. 1 in D-Flat Major
7. Margaret Fingerhut - 3 Preludes, Op. 4: No. 2 in F-Sharp Minor
8. Margaret Fingerhut - 3 Preludes, Op. 4: No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor
9. Margaret Fingerhut - Improvisation
10. Margaret Fingerhut - Nocturne-Fantaisie, Op. 4
11. Margaret Fingerhut - 3 Bagatelles, Op. 1: No. 1, Allegretto
12. Margaret Fingerhut - 3 Bagatelles, Op. 1: No. 2, Moderato
13. Margaret Fingerhut - 3 Bagatelles, Op. 1: No. 3, Moderato
14. Margaret Fingerhut - 2 Preludes, Op. 38b: No. 1 in D Minor
15. Margaret Fingerhut - 2 Preludes, Op. 38b: No. 2 in E-Flat Major
16. Margaret Fingerhut - Prelude in E-Flat Minor "Mourning"
17. Margaret Fingerhut - Lamentations & Consolations, Op. 17: No. 4, Consolation in D-Flat Major



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