Steven Osborne's recordings for Hyperion have been fascinating for their varied content, and he seems never to settle into a predictable niche. While he has recorded music by Shostakovich and Rachmaninov, it's never been with the aim of concentrating on Russian music, though he certainly demonstrates a strong sympathy for it and could easily be a leading specialist in the field. This album of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Sergey Prokofiev's Five Sarcasms and Visions Fugitives once again shows his deep ...
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Steven Osborne's recordings for Hyperion have been fascinating for their varied content, and he seems never to settle into a predictable niche. While he has recorded music by Shostakovich and Rachmaninov, it's never been with the aim of concentrating on Russian music, though he certainly demonstrates a strong sympathy for it and could easily be a leading specialist in the field. This album of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Sergey Prokofiev's Five Sarcasms and Visions Fugitives once again shows his deep understanding of the Russian spirit, and he reveals not only a special feeling for its dark and brooding aspects, but also displays a brilliance that reflects the Russian love of tone colors and effective scene painting. Mussorgsky's evocations of Viktor Hartmann's paintings are most famous in the colorful orchestral version by Ravel, but the piano's own timbres are similarly exploited and shaded by Osborne, whose playing is a kind of orchestration of touch and attack. The Prokofiev...
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