Composer: Sergey Prokofiev, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Igor Stravinsky
Performer: Philippe Guilhon-Herbert
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Artalinna
Catalogue: ATLA002
Release: 2014
Size: 542 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Prokofiev: Cinderella – Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 102
01. 1. Waltz. Cinderella and the Prince
02. 2. Cinderella’s Variation
03. 6. Amoroso
Prokofiev: Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75
04. 2. Scene. Morning’s Dance
05. 4. The Girl Juliet
06. 6. The Montagues and the Capulets (Dance of the Knights)
07. 7. Friar Laurence
08. 8. Mercutio
09. 10. Romeo and Juliet Before Parting
Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka
10. Danse russe
11. Chez Pétrouchka
12. La semaine grasse
Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35 (Version for Piano by the Composer)
13. 1. The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship
14. 3. The Young Prince and the Young Princess
If the Russian Sergei Diaghilev set up Les Ballets russes, Paris was the theatre of the company’s immense success. Diaghilev revealed Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky or Prokofiev to French and European audiences – alongside Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Milhaud, and Poulenc.
Philippe Guilhon-Herbert proposes in his first solo album a genuine choreography in sound, with two extraordinarily lyrical frescoes by Prokofiev: first ‘Cinderella’, then ‘Romeo and Juliette’ – a ballet naturally darker and more tragic. Both works provide a framework for the Oriental fragrances of Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Scheherazade’, and the sarcasm and irony of ‘Petrushka’.