Artist: Valery Kuleshov
Title: Virtuoso Transcriptions
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Piano Classics
Genre: Classical Piano
Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
Total Time: 00:56:15
Total Size: 192 mb

Tracklist

01. Boris Gudonuv, Suite After M. Mussorgsky's Opera People and the Tsar: I. People and the Tsar
02. Boris Gudonuv, Suite After M. Mussorgsky's Opera People and the Tsar: II. Grief over Russia
03. Boris Gudonuv, Suite After M. Mussorgsky's Opera People and the Tsar: III. Varlaam's Song ("so It Was in the Town of Kazan")
04. Boris Gudonuv, Suite After M. Mussorgsky's Opera People and the Tsar: IV. Tsar Boris
05. Boris Gudonuv, Suite After M. Mussorgsky's Opera People and the Tsar: V. Scene at Kromy
06. Boris Gudonuv, Suite After M. Mussorgsky's Opera People and the Tsar: VI. Pretender (False Dmitry)
07. Boris Gudonuv, Suite After M. Mussorgsky's Opera People and the Tsar: VII. Holy Fool
08. Boris Gudonuv, Suite After M. Mussorgsky's Opera People and the Tsar: VIII. Chimes
09. Night on Bald Mountain
10. Romeo and Juliet, Overture-Fantasy

Valery Kuleshov - Virtuoso Transcriptions (2014)

This recording contains three absolutely amazing and stunning piano transcriptions! Igor Khulodey, famous Russian pianist and composer, wrote in 1988 his Boris Godunov suite, after Mussorgskys opera. This frescolike work conjures up the tale of Boris, a Russian tragedy, the rich orchestral textures captured in larger than life pianism of unprecedented invention and difficulty, the bell scenes magnificently caught. The excitement and thrill of Mussorgskys orchestral work Night on Bald Mountain is superbly maintained in Khulodeys brilliant transcription, a pianistic tour de force of the highest order. Tchaikovskys Romeo Juliet is transcribed by Florian Noack, as fresh and colourful as the original.
Russian pianist Valery Kuleshov is a prize winner (both Silver Medal) of the prestigious Cliburn Competition and the Busoni Competition. His technique seemingly has no limitations, and his palette of colours, sense of structure and range of sonorities in these transcriptions are beyond belief.