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PHILIP EDWARD FISHER - PIANO WORKS BY THE MIGHTY HANDFUL CD

PHILIP EDWARD FISHER - PIANO WORKS BY THE MIGHTY HANDFUL CD

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FISHER,PHILIP EDWARD

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PIANO WORKS BY THE MIGHTY HANDFUL

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CLASSICAL / CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS

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095115167625

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On his first solo recital disc for Chandos, Philip Edward Fisher performs piano works by members of the so-called 'Mighty Handful', a group of five Russian composers Cesar Cui, Alexander Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov who in the 1860s banded together in an attempt to create a truly national school of Russian music, free of the perceived stiffling influences of Italian opera, German lieder, and other western European forms. The Mighty Handful were all self-trained amateurs. Borodin combined composing with a career in chemistry; Rimsky-Korsakov was a naval offier; and Mussorgsky had been in the Guards, then in the civil service, before taking up music. They tried to incorporate in their music what they heard in village songs, in Cossack dances, in church chants, and the tolling of church bells; in short, the music of the Mighty Handful was brimming with sounds that echoed Russian life. From the more traditional, Chopin-esque Nocturne by Cui through to the technical innovations and strong Caucasus folk elements of Balakirev's Islamey, the works here all show the composers strong connections with the past and the compositional innovations that would come to influence the likes of Prokofiev and Stravinsky, and help change the course of Russian music for years to come. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and The Juilliard School, the pianist Philip Edward Fisher is widely recognised as a unique performer of refined style and exceptional versatility. He has performed across Europe, Africa, and North America where he made his New York debut at Alice Tully Hall in 2002, performing Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto, and has also appeared at the Merkin Concert Hall and the Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. At home he has given performances at the Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre, and Royal Festival Hall in London, Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, and Symphony Hall in Birmingham. He has appeared as a soloist with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, and Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, and worked with performers such as exclusive Chandos artist bassoonist Karen Geoghegan, the tenor Robert White, pianist Sara Buechner, and violinists Elmar Oliveira, Philippe Graffin, and Augustin Hadelich. In 2001, Philip Edward Fisher received the Julius Isserlis Award from The Royal Philharmonic Society in London.

1. Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
2. Pictures at an Exhibition: I. Gnomus
3. Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
4. Pictures at an Exhibition: II. Old Castle
5. Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
6. Pictures at an Exhibition: III. Tuileries
7. Pictures at an Exhibition: IV. Bydlo
8. Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
9. Pictures at an Exhibition: V. Ballet of the Chickens in their Shells
10. Pictures at an Exhibition: VI. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
11. Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
12. Pictures at an Exhibition: VII. The Market-Place at Limoges
13. Pictures At An Exhibition: VIII. Catacombae (Sepulcrum Romanum) -
14. Pictures At An Exhibition: VIII. Con Mortuis In Lingua Mortua
15. Pictures at an Exhibition: IX. The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga)
16. Pictures at an Exhibition: X. The Great Gate at Kiev
17. 4 Morceaux, Op. 22: No. 3. Nocturne
18. Scherzo in A flat major
19. Petite Suite: I. In the Monastery
20. Petite Suite: II. Intermezzo
21. Petite Suite: III. Mazurka
22. Petite Suite: IV. Mazurka
23. Petite Suite: V. Reverie
24. Petite Suite: VI. Serenade
25. Petite Suite: VII. Nocturne
26. 4 Pieces, Op. 11: No. 3. Scherzino
27. 3 Pieces, Op. 15: No. 2. Romance
28. 3 Pieces, Op. 15: No. 1. Waltz
29. Islamey
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