Mussorgsky: Pictures At an Exhibition/Scriabin: Sonata #2/Prokofiev: Sonata #8 - Boris Giltburg

Modest Mussorgsky (Composer), Alexander Scriabin (Composer), Sergey Prokofiev (Composer), Boris Giltburg (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Boris Giltburg
• Composer: Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Scriabin, Sergey Prokofiev
• Audio CD (June 6, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: EMI Classics
• ASIN: B000F5GOJ6
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #415,135 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Moscow-born Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg is a young virtuoso with a mature approach to the music he plays on this debut recital. Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition has been recorded by many keyboard giants, but Giltburg easily holds his own with a performance that expertly characterizes each of the vignettes and the final Great Gate of Kiev, so often turned into an exercise in bombast, is here a grand structure whose imposing bulk has the majesty Mussorgsky surely intended. The Scriabin Sonata is a two movement fantasia that enables Giltburg to demonstrate his impressive poetic resources. The Prokofiev Eighth Sonata, the last of his wartime trilogy, is perhaps the greatest of the composer’s nine. Giltburg here shows his sense of structure and holds the long opening movement together so attention never flags through one of Prokofiev's most moving and beautiful essays in nostalgia for a lost past. In the finale, Gilturg whips up a virtuosic storm. So this is an auspicious debut recital, but more than that, first-rate performances of three major works. The engineering is superb as well. --Dan Davis

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mussorgsky: Pictures At an Exhibition/Scriabin: Sonata #2/Prokofiev: Sonata #8 - Boris Giltburg, February 13, 2011

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This review is from: Mussorgsky: Pictures At an Exhibition/Scriabin: Sonata #2/Prokofiev: Sonata #8 - Boris Giltburg (Audio CD)

GILTBURGT IS A GIFTED YOUNG PIANIST. ALL PIANO LOVERS SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE CD OF Mussorgsky's Pictures At an Exhibition
PIANO VERSION OF PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION- AS IT WAS ORIGINALLY COMPOSED.
LATER ORCHESTRATED BY RAVEL.
MY FAVORITE VERSION IS STILL BT S.RICHTER
also includes Scriabin and Prokofiev: Sonata #8 - Boris Giltburg

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant performances, May 21, 2009

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And just a great recording, sound wise one of the best piano recordings I have heard. Giltburg dazzles with his piano wizardry and gives us one of the best "Pictures" avaiable. The Scriabin and Prokoviev sonatas are just as wonderful. Get this while you can, EMI "deleated" it pretty quickly, as they often do, and copies may soon be hard to find.