RIP Kapustin

[Jonathan]

I read earlier on that the Russian composer Nikolai Kapustin died on 02Jul2020.

RIP.

[Count Boso]

Yes, indeed. I hadn't realised - given that he'd been, in recent years, taken up by a younger generation of pianists that he was quite as elderly - 82. 'Popular' recognition seems to have come relatively late.

[rauschwerk]

Steven Osborne's 1999 album has given me a lot of pleasure over the years. As a pianist, Kapustin didn't just dabble in jazz, he toured with a jazz orchestra for 11 years, so his adoption of that idiom in 'serious' pieces could never be merely superficial. Steven Osborne is a first-rate interpreter. Can anyone recommend other Kapustin recordings?

[Rolmill]

Steven Osborne's 1999 album has given me a lot of pleasure over the years. As a pianist, Kapustin didn't just dabble in jazz, he toured with a jazz orchestra for 11 years, so his adoption of that idiom in 'serious' pieces could never be merely superficial. Steven Osborne is a first-rate interpreter. Can anyone recommend other Kapustin recordings?

I don't know the Osborne disc, but very much like Hyperion's follow up a few years later with Marc-André Hamelin. He also included a lively performance of the 2nd sonata in a later disc, 'In a State of Jazz'.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Very sorry to hear this. A really original talent - one of the few classical composers who really 'got' the jazz idiom The hours , days , weeks I've spent (and will spend ) trying to get my fingers around his C major Jazz etude must stand as tribute. His performance is of finger-busting intensity.

[Count Boso]

Benjamin Grosvenor is another young pianist who has recorded shorter pieces, but not, I think, an entire disc.

[Pianorak]

There is Kapustin plays Kapustin on the Olympia label.

[Rolmill]

Hamelin's performance of the Toccatina was just played on Breakfast (around 8.45am) as a tribute.