Composer: César Auguste Franck, Leopold Godowsky, Sergey Rachmaninov
Performer: Roman Borisov
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA1080
Release: 2025
Size: 908 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Godowsky: Renaissance
01. Book I: Sarabande (After Jean-Philippe Rameau)
02. Book I: Menuet (After Jean-Philippe Rameau)
03. Book II: Pastorale. Angelus (After Arcangelo Corelli)
04. Book II: Courante (After Jean-Baptiste Lully)
05. Book IV: Concert-Allegro (After Domenico Scarlatti)
Franck: Prélude, choral et fugue, FWV 21
06. I. Moderato
07. II. Poco più lento – Poco allegro
08. III. Tempo I
Rachmaninov: Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42
09. Theme. Andante
10. Var. I. Poco più mosso
11. Var. II. L’istesso tempo
12. Var. III. Tempo di Minuetto
13. Var. IV. Andante
14. Var. V. Allegro (ma non tanto)
15. Var. VI. L’istesso tempo
16. Var. VII. Vivace
17. Var. VIII. Adagio misterioso
18. Var. IX. Un poco più mosso
19. Var. X. Allegro scherzando
20. Var. XI. Allegro vivace
21. Var. XII. L’istesso tempo
22. Var. XIII. Agitato
23. Intermezzo. Tempo rubato
24. Var. XIV. Andante (come prima)
25. Var. XV. L’istesso tempo
26. Var. XVI. Allegro vivace
27. Var. XVII. Meno mosso
28. Var. XVIII. Allegro con brio
29. Var. XIX. Piu mosso. Agitato
30. Var. XX. Piu mosso
31. Coda. Andante
In 2022, 19-year-old pianist Roman Borisov became the youngest winner of the prestigious Kissinger KlavierOlymp competition. After taking part in Alpha’s ‘Next Generation Mozart Soloists’ collection (ALPHA991), he now presents his first solo recital in Alpha’s ongoing ‘Piano Stories’ series, which he sees as a ‘conversation with the past’, featuring composers inspired by earlier styles to create new works. Born in 1870, the brilliant virtuoso pianist Leopold Godowsky composed twenty-four ‘free arrangements’ of music by masters of the Baroque. Among these, Roman Borisov has selected pieces based on works by Rameau, Corelli, Scarlatti and John Loeillet (whose pieces were originally mis-attributed to Lully)… In 1931, Rachmaninov composed his last original work for solo piano: a set of variations on ‘La Folia’, a 15th-century dance theme that Corelli famously used in one of his violin sonatas. The encounter between the Baroque style and the harmonic richness of the Russian composer is fascinating. The superb Prelude, Chorale and Fugue composed by Cesar Franck in 1884, an obvious tribute to J.S. Bach, concludes Roman’s pianistic journey through time.
