Pizzicato Ost

A coffin on a gondola, a ballet dancer with no pants on, an anti-patriarchy show, a royal scandal and a Russian peasant wedding ceremony - this and more, as well as tons of great music in our longest episode so far. And here is a list of the people mentioned in the episode: Adam, Adolphe Beecham, Thomas Bonynge, Richard Boulez, Pierre Chaliapin, Feodor Ivanovich Currentzis, Teodor Debussy, Claude Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich de Falla, Manuel Fokine, Michel (Mikhail Mikhailovich) Gergiev, Valery Abisalovich Gershwin, Ira Goncharova, Natalia Sergeevna Jurowski, Vladimir Mikhailovich Karsavina, Tamara Platonovna Larionov, Mikhail Fyodorovich Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich Nezet-Seguin, Yannick Nijinsky, Vatslav Fomich Nijinskaya, Bronislava Fominichna Nikisch, Arthur Ozawa, Seiji Pavlova, Anna Pavlovna Poulenc, Francis Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeevich Ravel, Maurice Reiner, Fritz Respighi, Ottorino Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Andreevich Rubinstein, Ida Lvovna Satie, Erik Strauss, Richard Stravinsky, Igor Fydorovich Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tcherepnin, Nikolai Nikolayevich Weil, Kurt

The world's most difficult solo piano piece and its nationalist antisemitic author are the hot topic of this episode. Is it all that simple though?..

After 2 years of silence, Pizzicato Ost returns with a second season. This introduction episode presents the concept and the idea of the new season.

We continue talking about the great piano suite, where babbling French ladies mix with an even old witch, and a gate is wearing a helmet... https://spoti.fi/2P94ffW

The most orchestral of all piano works, a piece that has inspired so many great musicians, Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an exhibition" is our topic for two episodes. Composed as an homage to the composer's close friend, artist Victor Hartmann, the work brings his paintings and sketches to life. Russian, Polish, French, Jewish motifs are all mixed in this suite for piano solo. The recording used in this show is this one: https://spoti.fi/3rm5reb