László Borbély - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition (2023) [24/192]

"A few years ago I composed a large-scale piano piece for László Borbély, entitled Schmuÿle & Samuel Goldenberg. The piece refers to the movement of the same title from Mussorgsky's well-known piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. Mussorgsky depicts two Jewish figures of very different characters, the driving force of his work being the juxtaposition of musical material inspired by them. This is the only concept I myself have taken as a starting point: a personal, parlando rubato, declamatory musical material and a pronounced, decisive, energetic, chorale-like movement confronted with each other. My resulting piece is thus akin to the Mussorgsky piece through the programme in the background, through the institution of the 'common ancestor'. In later years, it occurred to me to compose the other "Mussorgsky Pictures" accordingly, and to do so in pairs, by combining one Mussorgsky movement with another – starting from the musical conflict of my Schmuÿle movement. I have christened the series I have thus created "Memories of an Exhibition".

I dedicated my cycle to László Borbély, one of the most outstanding pianists of our time." Máté Balogh

Tracklist:
01. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
02. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Gnome
03. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Moderato comodo assai e con delicatezza (Promenade)
04. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Old Castle
05. Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: The Gnome in the Old Castle
06. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Moderato non tanto, pesantemente (Promenade)
07. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Tuileries (Dispute between Children after Play)
08. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Cattle
09. Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: Bydło in the Tuileries
10. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Tranquillo (Promenade)
11. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
12. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: „Samuel” Goldenberg and „Schmuÿle”
13. Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
14. Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: Schmuÿle & Samuel Goldenberg
15. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
16. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Market at Limoges (The Big News)
17. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Catacombs (Roman Sepulcher)
18. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: With the Dead in a Dead Language
19. Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: The Big News in the Catacombs
20. Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: Baba-Yaga at the Bogatyr Gate
21. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba-Yaga)
22. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Heroic Gate (in the Old Capital of Kiev)


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