Catalogue # 4782940
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. 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.
Borodin: Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances, arranged by Vovka
Ashkenazy
Glinka: Valse-Fantaisie in B minor for piano, G. vi193, arranged
for two pianos by Vovka Ashkenazy
Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain (piano version), arranged
by Vovka Ashkenazy
Rachmaninov: Suite No. 1 for Two Pianos, Op. 5
Scriabin: Fantasy in A minor Op. post.
