Alexander Karpeyev: Russian Emigre Composers [Blu-ray]

Russian-born pianist Alexander Karpeyev has been a major prizewinner in international competitions, including first prizes at the 2007 Dudley International Piano Competition, the Norah Sande Award 2008 and Oxford Music Festivals recital competition. He is a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and City University of London, where his doctoral thesis was on Medtner's performance practice. Alexander has given recitals in major UK venues and abroad. Dr. Karpeyev originally performed this programme at Kings Place, London, on February 13, 2017 to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution. He is grateful to all those who encouraged him to make this subsequent recording.

In one sense the Medtner is the reason to buy the disc but the Prokofiev and Stravinsky are very well played and such good music that they make it still more worthwhile. Karpayev uses a Fazioli F278 piano which has a noticeably different sound in the venue Colin Attwell usually uses, St Bartholomew’s, Brighton. It is brighter and has more ‘zing’ to it than the regular Steinway. That such differences are obvious is a reflection on the clarity of this high-definition stereo recording.

Треклист:
Grechaninov: Caprice, Op. 61 No. 2
Grechaninov: Lullaby, Op. 78 No. 2
Grechaninov: Prelude, Op. 78 No. 1
Grechaninov: Reproche, Op. 61 No. 6
Grechaninov: Waltz, Op. 61 No. 5
Medtner: Sonata-Ballada in F sharp major, Op. 27
Prokofiev: Visions fugitives, Op. 22, No. 1
Prokofiev: Visions fugitives, Op. 22, No. 4
Prokofiev: Visions fugitives, Op. 22, No. 8
Prokofiev: Visions fugitives, Op. 22, No. 10
Prokofiev: Visions fugitives, Op. 22, No. 11
Prokofiev: Visions fugitives, Op. 22, No. 14
Prokofiev: Visions fugitives, Op. 22, No. 15
Prokofiev: Visions fugitives, Op. 22, No. 18
Prokofiev: Visions fugitives, Op. 22, No. 19
Rachmaninoff: Étude-Tableau, Op. 39 No. 7 in C minor
Rachmaninoff: Nunc Dimittis
Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka