Artist: Anna Fedorova
Title: Intrigues of the Darkness
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Channel Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: 24bit-192kHz FLAC (tracks + booklet)
Total Time: 01:17:13
Total Size:  2.54 GB

Tracklist:

1. Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 (9:11)
2. Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: I. Ondine (7:09)
3. Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: II. Le gibet (5:22)
4. Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: III. Scarbo (9:43)
5. Falla: El amor brujo: I. Pantomime (4:14)
6. Falla: El amor brujo: II. Dance of Terror (2:03)
7. Falla: El amor brujo: III. Magical Circle (2:05)
8. Falla: El amor brujo: IV. Ritual Dance of Fire (3:59)
9. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade I (1:19)
10. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: I. Gnomus (2:46)
11. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade II (0:51)
12. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: II. Il vecchio castello (4:05)
13. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade III (0:27)
14. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: III. Tuileries (Dispute d'enfants après jeux) (1:07)
15. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: IV. Bydło (2:50)
16. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade IV (0:48)
17. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: V. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (1:00)
18. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: VI. "Samuel" Goldenberg und "Schmuÿle" (2:23)
19. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade V (1:19)
20. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: VII. Limoges, le marché (La grande nouvelle) (1:21)
21. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: VIII. Catacombæ (Sepulcrum romanum) (2:27)
22. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Cum mortuis in lingua mortua (2:18)
23. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: IX. The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yagá) (3:36)
24. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: X. The Great Gate of Kiev (5:05)

Anna Fedorova explores the Intrigues of the Darkness in these programmatic and extremely virtuosic works for solo piano. The journey from darkness to light begins with Scriabin's terrifying "Black Mass" Sonata. The work represents a satanic ritual that is possessed by the spectre of the Mephistophelian Liszt. De Falla's Suite from El Amor brujo conjures a mysterious world, full of magic, rituals and ghost visitations. Ravel described his Gaspard de la nuit as "romantic and of transcendent virtuosity". These highly evocative pieces are based on Aloysius Bertrand's prose poems depicting scenes of a hanged man sighing on the gallows and a devilish dwarf. Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition portrays many scenes of darkness but emerges into light with the Great Gate of Kiev, in which triumphant episodes alternate with moments of religious contemplation.