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 (18391881) 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 17yearold Mussorgsky met the 22yearold 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