Alexander Gadjiev: Legends – COMPACT DISCS

Title: Legends
Artist: Alexander Gadjiev
Label: Fuga Libera Label
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5400439008496
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-10-17
Number of Discs: 1

Alexander Gadjiev’s album Legends takes listeners on a journey through the timeless legends and stories hidden within music, revealing it’s power to conjure entire worlds. In Debussy’s La cathedrale engloutie, ghostly bells rise from a submerged cathedral, bringing a Breton myth to life. Liszt’s Funerailles rages with thunderous chords, evoking a battle against mortality, whilst Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition unfolds a vivid tapestry of Slavic folklore and European scenes. Prokofiev’s Legende tells an enchanted tale of light and shadow, and Scriabin’s Sonata No. 9 (Black Mass) immerses us in an eerie, otherworldly soundscape. Franck’s Prelude, Fugue et Variation offers a sublime reflection on the soul’s journey, while Bach-Siloti’s Prelude in B minor resonates like a timeless, universal hymn. The Italian-Slovenian pianist has designed this programme to offer listeners a profound and mythical experience.

Tracks:
1.1 cathdrale engloutie (Prludes – Book I. No. 10)
1.2 Pictures at an Exhibition~1. Promenade
1.3 Pictures at an Exhibition~2. Gnomus
1.4 Pictures at an Exhibition~3. Promenade
1.5 Pictures at an Exhibition~4. Il vecchio castello
1.6 Pictures at an Exhibition~5. Promenade
1.7 Pictures at an Exhibition~6. Tuileries (Dispute denfants aprs jeux)
1.8 Pictures at an Exhibition~7. Bydlo
1.9 Pictures at an Exhibition~8. Promenade
1.10 Pictures at an Exhibition~9. Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques
1.11 Pictures at an Exhibition~10. Samuel Goldenberg und Schmule
1.12 Pictures at an Exhibition~11. Promenade
1.13 Pictures at an Exhibition~12. Limoges. Le march (La grande nouvelle)
1.14 Pictures at an Exhibition~13. Catacombae (Sepulcrum romanum)
1.15 Pictures at an Exhibition~14. Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
1.16 Pictures at an Exhibition~15. La cabane sur des pattes de poule (Baba-Yaga)
1.17 Pictures at an Exhibition~16. La grande porte de Kiev
1.18 Prlude, Fugue and Variation, Op. 18
1.19 Funrailles (from Harmonies potiques et religieuses, S.173 No. 7 )
1.20 Pieces for piano, Op. 12~No. 6 – Legend
1.21 Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 “Black Mass”
1.22 Prelude in B minor (after BWV 855a)
1.23 12 tudes, Op. 8 – No. 12 in D-sharp minor