Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Taneyev, Nikolay Tcherepnin
Performer: Andrea Vivanet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Gramola
Catalogue: GRAM98022
Release: 2021
Size: 257 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Taneyev: Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor, Op. 29
01. I. Andante
02. II. Allegro vivace e con fuoco
Tcherepnin: Préludes, Op. 17
03. No. 1, Moderato pensieroso
04. No. 2, Andante con moto. Capricioso
05. No. 3, Molto sostenuto (Quasi andante)
06. No. 4, Moderato con moto
07. No. 5, Andantino
08. No. 6, Allegro non troppo. Agitato
Tcherepnin: Morceaux, Op. 18
09. No. 1, Mélodie. Moderato assai
10. No. 2, Improvisation. Andantino tranquillo
11. No. 3, Prélude. Molto adagio
12. No. 4, Humoresque. Allegretto ma tranquillo
13. No. 5, Modo religioso. Andante sostenuto
Tcherepnin: Primitifs
14. No. 1, Moderato con moto
15. No. 2, Andantino piacevole. Pensieroso
16. No. 3, Allegretto marcato
17. No. 4, Andantino rubato quasi allegretto piacevole
18. No. 5, Moderato scherzando
19. No. 6, Andantino
20. No. 7, Allegro risoluto, leggiero
21. No. 8, Molto moderato, quasi andantino
22. No. 9, Allegro risoluto
23. No. 10, Andantino
24. No. 11, Andante
25. No. 12, Presto
Shostakovich: Preludes for piano, Op. 34
26. No. 1 in C Major, Moderato
27. No. 2 in A Minor, Allegretto
28. No. 3 in G Major, Andante
29. No. 4 in E Minor, Moderato
30. No. 5 in D Major, Allegro vivace
31. No. 6 in B Minor, Allegretto
32. No. 7 in A Major, Andante
33. No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor, Allegretto
34. No. 9 in E Major, Presto
35. No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor, Moderato non troppo
36. No. 11 in B Major, Allegretto
37. No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor, Allegro non troppo
38. No. 13 in F-Sharp Major, Moderato
39. No. 14 in E-Flat Minor, Adagio
40. No. 15 in D-Flat Major, Allegretto
41. No. 16 in B-Flat Minor, Andantino
42. No. 17 in A-Flat Major, Largo
43. No. 18 in F Minor, Allegretto
44. No. 19 in E-Flat Major, Andantino
45. No. 20 in C Minor, Allegretto furioso
46. No. 21 in B-Flat Major, Allegretto poco moderato
47. No. 22 in G Minor, Adagio
48. No. 23 in F Major, Moderato
49. No. 24 in D Minor, Allegretto
Sardinian pianist Andrea Vivanet is one of the most interesting musicians of our time. Far more than a fabulous virtuoso, Vivanet captivates with finely chiselled art of characterisation, organically coherent performance and utmost refinement of colourism in both large and smallest forms. His Szymanovsky album on the Naxos label was hailed by international critics, and this album is an unconventional panorama of Russian piano music from the traditional to the classical modernism of the 1930s.
Sergei Taneyev’s only piano work Prelude and Fugue is not only a breathtaking contrapuntal masterpiece, it is also considered a pianistic acid test and is brilliantly performed here. Nikolai Tcherepnin, like Glazunov one of the great Rimsky-Korsakov pupils driven into emigration by the Russian Revolution, is still not completely rediscovered. Three of his miniature cycles are presented here in first recordings. The poetic lyricism of the turn-of-the-century music with its romantic, shimmering richness of colour contrasts with the subtle originality of the folk song arrangements Primitifs from 1926, in which the new era has its say.
This album closes with Shostakovich’s overflowingly diverse miniature cycle of 24 Preludes, Op. 34 from 1933. Russian piano music has arrived in the modern age, but everywhere the tradition continues to shine through in a transformed manner.