Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, Balogh Reminiscences of an Exhibition László Borbély

• Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881): Pictures at an Exhibition:
• 1 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 01:30
• 2 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Gnome 02:59
• 3 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Moderato comodo assai e con delicatezza (Promenade) 00:49
• 4 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Old Castle 04:38
• Máté Balogh (b. 1990): Reminiscences of an Exhibition:
• 5 Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: The Gnome in the Old Castle 02:15
• Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition:
• 6 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Moderato non tanto, pesantemente (Promenade) 00:27
• 7 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Tuileries (Dispute between Children after Play) 01:02
• 8 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Cattle 02:39
• Máté Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition:
• 9 Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: Bydło in the Tuileries 01:39
• Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition:
• 10 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Tranquillo (Promenade) 00:51
• 11 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks 01:01
• 12 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: „Samuel” Goldenberg and „Schmuÿle” 02:18
• Máté Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition:
• 13 Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks 01:49
• 14 Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: Schmuÿle & Samuel Goldenberg 04:03
• Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition:
• 15 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 01:26
• 16 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Market at Limoges (The Big News) 01:27
• 17 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Catacombs (Roman Sepulcher) 02:11
• 18 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: With the Dead in a Dead Language 02:02
• Máté Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition:
• 19 Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: The Big News in the Catacombs 03:35
• 20 Balogh: Reminiscences of an Exhibition: Baba-Yaga at the Bogatyr Gate 01:21
• Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition:
• 21 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba-Yaga) 03:25
• 22 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Heroic Gate (in the Old Capital of Kiev) 05:14
• Total Runtime 48:41

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"A few years ago I composed a large-scale piano piece for László Borbély, entitled Schmuÿle & Samuel Goldenberg. The piece refers to the movement of the same title from Mussorgsky's well-known piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. Mussorgsky depicts two Jewish figures of very different characters, the driving force of his work being the juxtaposition of musical material inspired by them. This is the only concept I myself have taken as a starting point: a personal, parlando rubato, declamatory musical material and a pronounced, decisive, energetic, chorale-like movement confronted with each other. My resulting piece is thus akin to the Mussorgsky piece through the programme in the background, through the institution of the 'common ancestor'. In later years, it occurred to me to compose the other "Mussorgsky Pictures" accordingly, and to do so in pairs, by combining one Mussorgsky movement with another – starting from the musical conflict of my Schmuÿle movement. I have christened the series I have thus created "Memories of an Exhibition".

I dedicated my cycle to László Borbély, one of the most outstanding pianists of our time." Máté Balogh

László Borbély, piano

László Borbély
was born in 1984. In 2007 he got his diploma with honours (Master of Music in Performance and Teaching) then his doctoral degree (Doctor of Liberal Arts) at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music Budapest, where he is an assistant professor of Piano Faculty.

He played concerts at international festivals such Collegium Musicum Pommersfelden (Germany), Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander (Spain), International Holland Music Sessions in Bergen (The Netherlands), TCU/Cliburn Institute in Fort Worth (USA), FestivaLiszt in Grottammare (Italy), Liszt Festival in Raiding (Austria), Liszt Festival in Bayreuth (Germany), International Bartók Festival Ankara (Turkey), International Conservatory Week Festival Saint Petersburg (Russia), Festival der Klänge in Vienna (Austria), CAFe Budapest Festival, Budapest Spring Festival, Day of Listening (Budapest), Tiszadob Piano Festival (Hungary), Beethoven Festival Martonvásár (Hungary), Arcus Temporum Festival Pannonhalma (Hungary) and International Bartók Festival Szombathely (Hungary).

He won numerous prizes at national and international competitions. He won 2nd Prize and a special prize for the best performance of the set piece at the EPTA International Piano Competition in Osijek (Croatia) in 2001. In the same year, he won the Great Prize of the national competition of secondary music schools in Békés-Tarhos. In 2002, he won the Yamaha Scholarship Award and also two 2nd and one 3rd prizes in different divisions of the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition where he won two special prizes too: prize for the „most artistic performance” and a special prize of the American Liszt Society. In 2003 he got the special prize of the Hungarian Ministry of Cultural Heritage at the national competition of the Hungarian Radio. Next Year he was first prizewinner at the Andor Földes national competition. In 2005 he won „Educational Award” at the London International Piano Competition. In 2006 he was 2nd prizewinner at the International Liszt-Bartók Piano Competition in Budapest where he got also a special prize of Budapest City. In 2009 he won 3rd prize and four special prizes at the National Haydn-Mendelssohn Piano Competition of the Hungarian Radio. He got the Annie Fischer Performers’ Scholarship three times (in 2008, 2009 and 2010). In 2009 he got „Junior Prima Prize”one of the most prestigious prize given for young artists.

He had lessons with Dmitrij Bashkirov, Gábor Csalog, Christopher Elton, Noel Flores, Péter Frankl, Márta Gulyás, Jan-Marisse Huizing, Zoltán Kocsis, György Kurtág, Claudio-Martinez Mehner, Piotr Paleczny, Murray Perrahia, Menahem Pressler, Ferenc Rados, Livia Rév, András Schiff, Tamás Ungár, Elisso Virsaladze, Mikhail Voskresensky, Tamás Vásáry and Rita Wagner.

He played concerts with prestigious artists such Zoltán Kocsis and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Péter Csaba (violin), Barnabás Kelemen (violin), Lajos Lencsés (oboe), Alessandro Carbonare (clarinet), Lajos Rozmán (clarinet), Judit Rajk (voice), etc.

He has recitals regularly in Hungary and other countries too.

He made recordings for Hungarian Radio and TRT Ankara. His first solo CD released in 2016 (edited by: Bayer Music Group)

He took master classes in Geneve (Switzerland), Würzburg (Germany), Tbilisi (Georgia) and gave podium-lectures in Izmir (Turkey) and Saint Petersburg (Russia).

He is member of Metrum Ensemble.

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