Composer: Claude Achille Debussy, César Auguste Franck, Ferencz Liszt, Jorge Sastre
Performer: Alexander Koryakin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Release: 2021
Size: 610 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Liszt: Vallée d’Obermann (Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160 No. 6)
02. Debussy: L’isle joyeuse
03. Sastre: Jaenera ‘Ecos y temple’
Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 14
04. I. Molto moderato quasi lento (Live)
05. II. Lento, con molto sentimento (Live)
06. III. Allegro non troppo, ma con fuoco (Live)
Alexander Koryakin, winner of the 2019 Jaén Prize International Piano Competition, has selected two perfectly paired masterpieces for his first Naxos recording. Liszt’s Vallée d’Obermann is inspired by his travels in Switzerland, and is a true symphonic poem for piano. Franck’s Piano Quintet in F minor, which Liszt himself found shockingly intense, is a cyclical work of passionate extremes, and a masterpiece of Franco-Belgian repertoire. Also included are Debussy’s L’Isle joyeuse, which offers crystalline brightness, and Jorge Sastre’s Jaenera, “Ecos y temple”, with virtuoso expression drawing on a wide range of influences.