The Slipped Disc daily comfort zone (266): An encore to end all encores
mainThis is the Israeli pianist Dorel Golan playing the socks off a piece by Nikolai Kapustin for an audience in Azerbaijan.
Anyone known what it’s called?
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I bet Marc-Andre Hamelin knows the work.
If you know the Italian-Korean pianist Sunhee You she would definitely know. She released a CD of Kapustin works a few years ago and was close to the composer as well.
It’s the first of Kapustin’s Five Etudes in Various Intervals. This one based on minor seconds.
This is the first of Five Études in Different Intervals, Op.68…
Dorel Golan is marvelous.
I’m still not convinced by Kapustin, however – so many of his piano works sound like warmed-over Oscar Peterson.
Etude op 68 no 1, seconds interval
Is she SD’s new Yuja now?
no, her dress is too long…
More likely the next Mirga.
This is the Etude in Minor Seconds from the Five Etudes in Different Intervals.
Etude Op 68/1 (5 Etudes in different intervals).
Kapustin himself has several Russian CDs of his piano music. Marc-Andre Hamelin has recorded him as Peter of San Diegonotes, also I think Steven Osborn, both for Hyperion. Hamelin ferrets out these little-known composers … Radames Gnattali, Sofia-Carmen Eckhardt-Grammate, Alkan,Wolpe, and another obscure Brazilian I’ll think of tomorrow, Francesco X.
The other elusive Brazilian composer played by Marc-Andre Hamelin is Francesco … MIGNONE! Now I don’t have to wait until tomorrow to remember it and cut myself shaving. Oh,John,the persistence of memory …
I’d stilllike to know thestory of Radames Gnattali, who even had a sister named Aida. I wonder, what wa going on in that family?
I love performing (and listening to) Mignone’s music.
Brilliant….. It’s the only piece where hitting the wrong notes is right. Some pianists play it with gloves on which makes it easier. Other pianists play only a global version with their own wrong/right notes.