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NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN - Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 6

Variations Op. 3 · Toccata Op. 8 · Concert Rhapsody Op. 25 · Nocturne Op. 16
Frank Dupree · SWR Big Band · SWR Symphonieorchester · Dominik Beykirch

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When the music of Nikolai Kapustin was discovered by a wider audience in the West, it was positively shocking: Who was this Soviet (!) composer, whose music sounded more like an Oscar Peterson improvisation than anything else – but who wrote detailed scores, black with notes?! As we discover more and more of his music and as we again can hear on the present recording, Kapustin developed his style subtly and steadily. He went with the times. As the music that influenced him changed, so did Kapustin’s. The development of Big Band Jazz can be traced in his work. In that sense Kapustin never settled on one style (within the parameters of his unique fusion of jazz and classical, granted) but remained flexible about the musical material and the way he related it to the orchestra.

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