The Georgian pianist Nino
Gvetadze was born in 1981 and studied at the Royal Conservatory in
The Hague. Since winning the YPF National Piano Competition in
2004, she has appeared with many leading orchestras and performed
at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Modest Mussorgsky’s
turbulent and muddled life somehow enabled him to become one of the
most visionary and innovative composers in Russia in the 19th
century. ‘Art is not an end in itself, but a means of
conversing with one’s fellow creatures’ he wrote in his
autobiography. This view may in some way explain the
inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies in his music. He had been called
a ‘barbarian’ by some of his colleagues, and even his
friend and fellow member of ‘The Mighty Handful’ (the
group of five leading Russian nationalist composers)
Rimsky-Korsakov thought he lacked refinement.
His vivid tonal pallette was
to become an important influence on composers such as Debussy and
Ravel, the latter famously orchestrating Mussorgksy’s piano
masterpiece Pictures at an Exhibition. The original is the main
work on this disc which includes all his extant works for solo
piano. Much of his output for piano dates from his early years as a
composer, and two piano sonatas, in E flat major and F minor, have
sadly been lost.
New recording, containing
pieces that are rarely recorded
One of a series of releases
highlighting the winners of the principal prizes at the prestigious
YPF Young Pianist Foundation’s National Piano Competition in
Holland.
‘A musician to be
reckoned with.’ De Telegraaf
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