MUSORGSKY

Pictures at an Exhibition (1874); Meditation (Album Leaf); Intermezzo in modo classico (revised version); Une larme Claire Chevallier (piano) Cypres CYP 1675 57:16 mins

Three years ago, Zig-zag issued an intriguing performance on period instruments of the Ravel orchestration of Musorgsky’s Pictures, conducted by Jos van Immerseel. Now Immerseel’s regular piano duo piano partner, Claire Chevallier, follows suit by giving us an equally absorbing historically-informed account