Artist: Robert Neumann
Album: Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2024
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 37:42
Total Tracks: 13
Total Size: 324 MB

Tracklist:

1. Robert Neumann – Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade I (01:49)
2. Robert Neumann – Pictures at an Exhibition: I. Gnomus (04:07)
3. Robert Neumann – Pictures at an Exhibition: II. Il vecchio castello (05:11)
4. Robert Neumann – Pictures at an Exhibition: III. Tuileries (Dispute d’enfants après jeux) (01:03)
5. Robert Neumann – Pictures at an Exhibition: IV. Bydło (04:29)
6. Robert Neumann – Pictures at an Exhibition: V. Ballet of Unhatched Chicks in Their Shells (01:14)
7. Robert Neumann – Pictures at an Exhibition: VI. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle (02:35)
8. Robert Neumann – Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade II (02:01)
9. Robert Neumann – Pictures at an Exhibition: VII. Limoges, le marché (La grande nouvelle) (01:23)
10. Robert Neumann – Pictures at an Exhibition: VIIIa. Catacombæ (Sepulcrum romanum) (02:41)
11. Robert Neumann – Pictures at an Exhibition: VIIIb. Con mortuis in lingua mortua (02:19)
12. Robert Neumann – Pictures at an Exhibition: IX. The Hut on Fowl’s Legs (Baba-Yagá) (03:29)
13. Robert Neumann – Pictures at an Exhibition: X. The Great Gate of Kiev (05:15)

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For his second album on the SWR label Robert Neumann chose two works that are easily paired and are close to the pianist’s heart. Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana depicts a character featured in several tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, while Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition describes the contemplation of art works by the painter Viktor Hartmann. Both are examples of programme music with somewhat comparable ideas but, as Neumann puts it, ‘One idea deals with a real character, the other one doesn’t… And I think both show in an exemplary manner how flawlessly and in different ways a great Romantic cycle can be structured.’