The music of composer Nikolai Kapustin is not entirely unknown. It's brilliantly virtuosic, and Marc-André Hamelin has played and recorded it from time to time. Pianist Frank Dupree has recorded Kapustin's Piano Concerto No. 4, but this release from pianist Yeol Eum Son is much needed, for it gives a generous sampling of Kapustin's music and approaches it with a certain humor that brings it alive. Check the graphics, complete with rotary dial phone. Son, in a note, mentions how Russian hearers of her Kapustin performances ...
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The music of composer Nikolai Kapustin is not entirely unknown. It's brilliantly virtuosic, and Marc-André Hamelin has played and recorded it from time to time. Pianist Frank Dupree has recorded Kapustin's Piano Concerto No. 4, but this release from pianist Yeol Eum Son is much needed, for it gives a generous sampling of Kapustin's music and approaches it with a certain humor that brings it alive. Check the graphics, complete with rotary dial phone. Son, in a note, mentions how Russian hearers of her Kapustin performances sometimes assume he was American, and indeed, his lack of renown may stem from the sheer unlikelihood of his music having arisen where it did. Kapustin is, of course, not the only musician to have fused classical music and jazz, but his approach is unique. Where fusion musicians from the Modern Jazz Quartet on down have added improvisation to classical patterns, Kapustin goes in a different direction. His music is not improvised, but its content is jazz, molded into classical forms...
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