Shadows Of My Ancestors

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While Prokofiev is passionate about Romeo and Juliet, Ravel locked himself away a quarter of a century earlier in Levallois Perret to compose Gaspard de la nuit, inspired by the collection of poems by Aloysius Bertrand subtitled Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot. In 1973, the Uzbek composer Dilorom Saidaminova pays tribute to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and composes The Walls of Ancient Bukhara, which offers a sonic perspective on the historical center of the Central Asian city founded four or five centuries before our era. Her compatriot Behzod Abduraimov was keen to honor this little-known composer and to record her music, which, like the other two works on this album, is evocative and rich in color.