Composer: Nikolai Kapustin
Performer: Sukyeon Kim
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Piano Classics
Catalogue: PCL0082
Release: 2015
Size: 186 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Variations Op. 41
02. Toccatina Op. 36
Eight Concert Études Op. 40
03. No. 1. Prelude
04. No. 2. Reverie
05. No. 3. Toccatina
06. No. 6. Pastoral
07. No. 7. Intermezzo
08. No. 8. Finale
09. Andante, Op. 58
10. Aquarela do Brasil, Op. 188
11. Daybreak, Op. 26
Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 54
12. I. Allegro molto
13. II. Scherzo
14. III. Largo
15. IV. Perpetuum mobile
Nikolai Kapustin (born in 1937 in Ukraine) was trained as a classical pianist at Moscow Conservatory by Alexander Goldenweiser (one of the legendary pianists of the Russian Piano School). During the 1950s he won fame as a Jazz pianist. As a composer he fused styles, using Jazz idioms in classical structures, like the Sonata, (quasi baroque‐) Suite and Preludes and Fugues. His music is gaining rapidly in popularity, and an increasing number of famous pianists programme his works in recitals.
Young Korean Sukyeon Kim is the perfect interpreter of this music: without exaggerating its jazzy character her phenomenally supple and natural technique gives an irresistible ‘Schwung’ to these fascinating pieces of spine‐tingling virtuosity and brilliance.