Composer: Stéphan Elmas
Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Grand Piano
Catalogue: GP914
Release: 2022
Size: 1.11 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Ballade No. 1 in E-Flat Major
02. Ballade No. 2 in B Major
03. Ballade in G Major
04. Romance for Piano in E-Flat Major
05. Barcarolle No. 1 in E-Flat Minor
06. Barcarolle No. 2 in C Minor
07. Nocturne No. 1 in B Major
08. Nocturne No. 2 in E Major
09. Nocturne No. 3 in G-Sharp Minor
10. Nocturne No. 4 in D Major
11. Nocturne No. 5 in G-Flat Major
12. Nocturne No. 6 in A-Flat Major
13. Nocturne No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor
Armenian pianist and composer Stephan Elmas was a child prodigy who met Franz Liszt and became closely acquainted with Rubinstein and Massenet. Elmas’s life was darkened by illness and the tragedy of his homeland, but his music reflects the ease and facility of his technique, harking back to the Romanticism of Chopin, Liszt and Schumann, rather than the challenging times in which he lived, and with a quality of craftsmanship that gives his music a magnetic attractiveness.
Mikael Ayrapetyan continues his acclaimed exploration of rediscovered Armenian piano repertoire with the first in this series of Elmas’s complete works for piano