Modest Mussorgsky - Selected Pieces for Piano

00:00 Reverie (Maria Yudina) 04:47 La Capricieuse (Maurizio Baglini) 06:47 Intermezzo in modo clasico 14:39 Pictures of Crimea No.1 (Nino Gvetadze) 17:33 Pictures of Crimea No.2 (Nina Kavtaradze) 23:22 Scherzo in C Sharp Minor (Michel Beroff) 26:58 The Seamstress (Mikhail Kollonty) 29:14 Une Larme (Tears) (Tomislav Baynov) 32:57 Au Village (Quasi Fantasia) (Maurizio Baglini) 37:28 Meditation (Maria Yudina) Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) was a Russian Composer and a member of “the five“. At age six, Mussorgsky began receiving piano lessons from his mother, herself a trained pianist. His progress was sufficiently rapid that three years later he was able to perform a John Field concerto and works by Franz Liszt for family and friends. Modest studied the piano with the noted Anton Gerke. In 1856 the 17-year-old Mussorgsky met the 22-year-old Alexander Borodin while both men served at a military hospital in Saint Petersburg. Mussorgsky later met Alexander Dargomyzhsky, at that time the most important Russi