Following their album of French music for two pianos, father and son Vladimir and Vovka Ashkenazy revel in their musical heritage with this dazzling programme by the great composers of Russia, with Rachmaninov's two-piano Suite No.1 at its heart. Three of the works have been arranged by Vovka Ashkenazy himself, including Mussorgsky's Night On The Bald Mountain and the album's virtuosic finale - Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from his opera Prince Igor. His two-piano arrangement of Glinka's lilting Valse-fantaisie is itself based on Sergei Lyapunov's arrangement for four hands.
The two works originally written for two pianos are Rachmaninov's poetic Suite no 1, Op. 5 "Fantaisie Tableaux" (which the young composer dedicated to another giant of Russian music - Piotr Tchaikovsky) and the Fantasy in A minor by Rachmaninov's contemporary at the Moscow Conservatoire, Mikhail Scriabin.
For this album Vovka Ashkenazy has arranged Mussorgsky´s Night on the Bald Mountain, Glinka´s Valse-fantaisie in B minor (after Liapunov´s arrangement for piano four hands) and Borodin´s Polovtsian Dances for two pianos.
For this album Vovka Ashkenazy has arranged Mussorgsky´s Night on the Bald Mountain, Glinka´s Valse-fantaisie in B minor (after Liapunov´s arrangement for piano four hands) and Borodin´s Polovtsian Dances for two pianos.
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