VICTOR MERZHANOV - MUSSORGSKY. Pictures at an Exhibition (04)

Victor Merzhanov, piano Mussorgsky. “Pictures at an Exhibition“: Promenade (Прогулка) No. 5 “Балет невылупившихся птенцов“ (Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks) No. 6 “Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuÿle“ (“Два еврея: богатый и бедный“; “Two Jews: Rich and Poor“) LAST RECITAL Recorded at Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory on January 12, 2007. Victor Merzhanov was once called by a Swedish critic “a descendant of that line of great Russian-born pianists that began with Ziloty and Rachmaninov“. Merzhanov graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire with distinction and his name was inscribed in its marble wall along with those of Scryabin and Rachmaninov. During his career he gave more tran 1500 recitals and concerts recitals with such conductors as Zanderling, Kondrashin, Gauk, Rozhdestvensky, Temirkanov, Svetlanov and many others. Merzhanov teaches at Moscow Conservatory since 1947. Выдающийся р