Search - Modest Mussorgsky, Maurice Ravel, Gloria Saarinen :: Moussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit

"Gloria Saarinen is without doubt the finest keyboard player this reviewer has heard in Canada. Her technique is impeccable--her musicianship Utopian" - EDMONTON JOURNAL A thrilling performance by leading Canadian pianist Gloria Saarinen issued in the new audiophile series Sorcery at the Keyboard. The playing of New Zealand-born Saarinen has been described as "warm, lyrical and imaginative" by the London Times (UK) and "superb and magnificent" by the Toronto Star (Canada). Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, better known in the orchestral transcription by Maurice Ravel, was originally a work for solo piano and is equally dramatic on the keyboard. Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit is one of his most difficult and demanding keyboard compositions.