Alexander Gadjiev piano
Claude Debussy
Five Preludes from the Second Book, L 131
Brouillards aus Préludes
La terrasse des audiences du claire de lune
Ondine
Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C.
Feux d´artifice
Béla Bartók
Suite “All’aria aperta” (Szabadban) SZ 81, BB 89
Modest Petrovič Musorgskij
Pictures at an Exhibition
The Hungarian word ‘szabadban‘ means ‘freedom’; in Béla Bartók’s case, it means above all freedom of composition. This was the original title of his piano suite Out of Doors, in which unexpected sonic constructions and transcendental performance techniques challenge even the most experienced pianists. Similar challenges can be found in Debussy’s Second Book of Preludes, where the instrument is pushed to the limit of its resources, and in Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, the most compelling and imaginative musical ‘promenade’ ever created in the history of music. They will all be entrusted to the talent of thirty-year-old Alexander Gadjiev, the first Italian pianist to reach the podium of the legendary Chopin Competition, sixty years after Maurizio Pollini.
