Composer: Jānis Ķepītis
Performer: Nora Lūse
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC0721
Release: 2024
Size: 545 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Prelude in D-Flat Major
02. Prelude in F Minor (1)
03. Prelude in F Minor (2)
04. Prelude in C-Sharp Minor
05. Prelude in C Major
06. Caprice in A-Flat Major
07. Caprice No. 1 in E-Flat Major
08. Caprice No. 2 in C Major
09. Lullaby in A-Flat Major
10. Lullaby in F Major
11. Latvian Dance
12. Elegy
13. Sketch
14. Eddy
15. Rest in the Garden
16. In the Evening
17. Autumn Sketch
Piano Sonatine in B Major
18. I. Moderato
19. II. Andante con moto
20. III. Allegretto
The Latvian composer Jānis Ķepītis (1908–89) has a fairly low profile even in his home country, never mind beyond its borders. His output was nonetheless substantial, with no fewer than six symphonies to his name, ten concertos, a number of large-scale choral-orchestral pieces, countless songs and choruses and a voluminous body of chamber music – almost all of it unknown. Ķepītis was himself a gifted pianist, and his hundred or so compositions for piano show a predilection for the miniature. The works here, discovered among his manuscripts, inhabit a world downstream from Skryabin and Rachmaninov, with a gentle hint of Debussy and an occasional wisp of Latvian folk-music.