Composer: Mily Balakirev, Mikhail Glinka
Performer: Nicholas Walker
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Grand Piano
Catalogue: GP846
Release: 2020
Size: 1.26 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Balakirev: La fileuse
02. Balakirev: Au jardin “Étude-idyll”
03. Glinka: Fantasy on 2 Russian Songs (Arr. M. Balakirev for Piano)
04. Balakirev: Tamara (Arr. N. Walker for Piano)
05. Balakirev: Polka in F sharp minor
06. Balakirev: Elegy on the Death of a Mosquito (Completed by N. Walker)
07. Balakirev: La danse de sorcières (Completed by N. Walker)
08. Glinka: Do Not Say (Arr. M. Balakirev for Piano)
09. Balakirev: Tyrolienne in F-Sharp Major
10. Zapolsky: Rêverie (Arr. M. Balakirev for Piano)
11. Balakirev: Toccata
Glinka: A Farewell to Saint Petersburg
12. No. 10, The Lark (Arr. M. Balakirev for Piano)
13. Balakirev: Oriental Fantasy, Op. 18 (Islamey)
This final volume in Nicholas Walkers much-admired survey of the complete solo piano music of Balakirev includes the composers famous work for piano, Islamey, an exotic and ultra-virtuoso oriental tale. Also featured are previously unpublished and unrecorded miniatures pieces that are both poetic and, in the case of the Elegy on the Death of a Mosquito, witty. Transcriptions of Glinka are included, and Walker has arranged Balakirevs passionate and sensual symphonic poem Tamara for solo piano, recreating textures redolent of the composers own piano style. He also plays Au Jardin, an Idyll-Étude of rapt beauty and tenderness.