Daniel Hill - Daniel Hill plays Schubert & Mussorgsky

Although these two masterpieces are of differing styles - the Schhubert (1828) being a 4-movement sonata in the Viennese classical tradition and the Mussorgsky (1874) a sequence of 15 short sections in a deliberately Russian idiom that rejects western European influence, there are parallels between them. Neither was published until after their composer�s death, the sonata in 1838 and Pictures in 1931, though an edited version by Rimsky-Korsakov had appeared in 1886. Neither work received real appreciation and understanding until the 20th century. Daniel Hill comments: �My criteria for selecting repertoire to record was two-fold: firstly, that I would be playing music for which I held a deep respect, passion and conviction; and secondly, that they were pieces for which I felt I may be able to do some justice. 'Both works, though largely disperate in nature, represent a kind of journey: in the vivid experience of Mussorgsky�s Pictures, this is somewhat overtly so; Schubert, on the other hand, takes us into a profoundly intimate and, at times, transcendental realm. �My hope in making this disc is that I may have found some of that elusive and prescious connection between interpreter and composition'.