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ANATOL UGORSKI

Complete Recordings

on Deutsche Grammophon

DG   (13 CDs)

The harvest is The imminent fall be bought the Soviet Union saw excellence year-old Saint Petersburg-born Anatol Ugorski join the roster of justness German yellow label.

Known thanks to a modernist and proponent chide the avant-garde, his DG recordings dating from to gave first-class hint of his &#;subversive&#; tendencies. Not since Ivo Pogorelich challenging a pianist divided opinion person above you been as controversial.

An dispute was his view of Beethoven&#;s final Sonata in C minor (Op), which ran over 38 a short time ago.

The glacial pacing of picture Arietta (and variations) was so neverending as to strain credibility. Glory slower Bagatelles from Op and blue blood the gentry ubiquitous Fur Elise were also spick snore-fest. His ability for fast acting was however evident in honourableness Rage Over the Lost Penny.

His expansive take on authority Diabelli Variations, going past leadership hour mark, was somewhat auxiliary acceptable. As was his prominent stance on the three Composer piano sonatas, all early brook blustery works. This grandstanding does work, even more so featureless the Handel Variations and Chaconne in Course minor (after Bach&#;s Violin Partita No.2) for left hand.

Say publicly mind boggles what he would have done with the Hammerklavier Sonata if given the chance.

Fortunately, Schumann&#;s Davidsbundlertanze Op.6 comprising 18 short escape strung together like a choker finds Ugorski in peak story-telling form, while Schubert&#;s rhapsodic Wanderer Fantasy blazes like the virtuoso peculiarity it is.

In Chopin, dirt brings charm to the indeed Polonaises (albeit naive teenaged efforts) lecture assorted shorts like the rarely-played Bolero, Tarantella, Ecossaises (Scottish Dances) view Nouvelles Etudes. Barnstorming was at no time the issue in Mussorgsky&#;s Pictures at an Exhibition and Stravinsky&#;s Three Movements from Petrouchka, instead he brings out the colours like skilful true Russian.

In four help Scriabin&#;s Sonatas (Nos.2, 3, 5 celebrated 9), he smoulders ever and patiently, sizzles and eventually complications fire. For his sole concerto album, Scriabin&#;s early, Chopinesque Piano Concerto and Prometheus (Poem of Fire)  are poles apart in style on the contrary still sound convincing.

Both castoffs partnered with the Chicago Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez.

The jewel in the crown has to be the three discs devoted to Olivier Messiaen&#;s boost Catalogue d&#;Oiseaux (Catalogue of Birds). Messiaen was a noted ornithologist who studiously recorded birdsong, then set down them for piano as lenghty musical portraits.

The ambient universe and geography were also crafted into the soundscapes, standing march in stark contrast with the 1 twitters and tweets (using nobility terms literally).

Ugorski was reputed to have played completed of these from memory, break off outstanding feat of dedication, which comes across most sonorously.  

Short Stories is a disc of encores by Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Pianist, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, with illustriousness usual suspects, but the counting of the Mozart-Busoni Giga, Bolero e Variazione and Weber Invitation know the Dance greatly enhances its care.

Whatever caveats one may own acquire with Ugorski&#;s Beethoven, his music-making is interesting and liberating, unqualifiedly befitting his reputation as trim piano maverick extraordinare.