Composer: Claude Achille Debussy, Ferencz Liszt, Modest Mussorgsky
Performer: Llŷr Williams
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Signum
Catalogue: SIGCD226
Release: 2010
Size: 588 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
01. Promenade
02. The Gnome
03. Promenade
04. The Old Castle
05. Promenade
06. The Tuileres
07. Bydlo
08. Promenade
09. Ballet of Chicks in their Shells
10. Samuel Goldenburg and Schmuyle
11. Limoges, the market place
12. The Catacombs
13. Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
14. The Hut on Fowls Legs
15. The Great Gate of Kiev
Debussy: Estampes
16. Pagodes
17. La soiree dans Grenade
18. Jardins sous la pluie
19. Liszt: Sposalizio
20. Liszt: Les Jeux d’eau a la Villa d’Este
21. Liszt: Ave Maria, Die Glockn von Rom, S182
These works are all evocative musical ‘pictures’ of different times and places: from Debussy’s decidedly Spanish Estampes to Mussorgsky’s vivid Pictures at an Exhibition.
Llŷr Williams brings an extraordinary musical intelligence to his interpretations and performances. The 2008-2009 season saw his recital debuts at the Lucerne Festival, in the Wigmore Hall’s main recital series and at Carnegie Hall. He was one of the official accompanists for the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and took part in three Proms concerts: a performance of Stravinsky’s Les Noces, a solo lunchtime recital and a chamber music concert celebrating 10 years of the BBC’s New Generation Artists. He also toured in Europe with Mitsuko Uchida, Christian Poltéra and Martin Fröst, as part of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust’s celebration of its fifth anniversary, with venues including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. In February, 2009 he gave a series of four concerts for BBC Radio 3 in Cardiff, to celebrate the opening of Hoddinott Hall: two solo recitals, one concert with the Leopold String Trio, and one with bass Shen Yang. During 2010 he is performing a Beethoven sonata cycle around the UK and giving recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Handelbeurs Concertzaal in Ghent as well as three concerts at the Aschau Festival with violinist Alexander Janiczek.