Sergei Kasprov – Exploring Time with My Piano (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Sergei Kasprov – Exploring Time with My Piano (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:59 minutes | 544 MB | Genre: Classical, Piano
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For his first recording on the Alpha label, Sergei Kasprov, a young Russian artist trained at the Moscow Conservatory, defies the laws of time. He has in fact chosen to create a dialogue between great Baroque geniuses and Russian Romantics: Rameau, Lully, Loeillet, Bach and Scarlatti revised by Tausig, Godowsky and Rachmaninov.

In the tradition of Marcelle Meyer, Glenn Gould or, more recently, Alexandre Tharaud, Sergei Kasprov pulls off the tour de force of freeing himself from ‘Baroque’ interpretative codes and, at the same time, from those of the 19th century, to better get back to the essential.

The excellent recording quality attests ideally to the discourse, respectful of the original counterpoint as well as unfailing digital dexterity necessitated by appropriate ornamentation and the amazing sound palette required by late Romanticism, all on a Steinway contemporary with Rachmaninov. A new talent, an Alpha discovery!

Tracklist:
01. Sergei Kasprov – Premier livre de pièces de clavecin: Prélude (02:24)
02. Sergei Kasprov – Renaissance, Book 1: Menuet in A Minor (After Jean-Philippe Rameau) (04:39)
03. Sergei Kasprov – Renaissance, Book 1: Sarabande in E Major (After Jean-Philippe Rameau) (02:35)
04. Sergei Kasprov – Renaissance, Book 1: Rigaudon in E Major (After Jean-Philippe Rameau) (04:14)
05. Sergei Kasprov – Lesson I in E Minor for the Harpsichord or Spinet: Allemande (03:55)
06. Sergei Kasprov – Lesson I in E Minor for the Harpsichord or Spinet: Courante (01:59)
07. Sergei Kasprov – Renaissance, Book 2: Sarabande in E Minor (After Jean Baptiste Loeillet: Lesson I in E Minor for the Harpsichord or Spinet: Slow Air) (02:57)
08. Sergei Kasprov – Lesson I in E Minor for the Harpsichord or Spinet: Gigue (02:28)
09. Sergei Kasprov – Renaissance, Book 2: Gigue in E Minor (After Jean Baptiste Loeillet: Suite No. 1 in G Minor from the Six Suites of Lessons for the Harpsichord: Gigue) (03:21)
10. Sergei Kasprov – Sonata in B Minor, Kk. 87 (06:28)
11. Sergei Kasprov – Sonata in E Major, Kk. 162 (05:44)
12. Sergei Kasprov – Sonata in D Minor, Kk. 9: Pastorale (Transcribed in E Minor by Tausig) (04:01)
13. Sergei Kasprov – Sonata in E Major, Kk. 20: Capriccio (Transcribed by Tausig) (02:52)
14. Sergei Kasprov – Suite in A Minor, BWV 818-A: I. Prelude (01:39)
15. Sergei Kasprov – Suite in A Minor, BWV 818-A: II. Allemande (03:30)
16. Sergei Kasprov – Suite in A Minor, BWV 818-A: III. Courante (01:26)
17. Sergei Kasprov – Suite in A Minor, BWV 818-A: IV. Sarabande (05:02)
18. Sergei Kasprov – Suite in A Minor, BWV 818-A: V. Menuet (00:55)
19. Sergei Kasprov – Suite in A Minor, BWV 818-A: VI. Gigue (02:08)
20. Sergei Kasprov – Partita in E Major, BWV 1006: Prelude (Transcribed by Rachmaninov) (03:19)
21. Sergei Kasprov – Partita in E Major, BWV 1006: Gavotte (Transcribed by Rachmaninov) (03:09)
22. Sergei Kasprov – Partita in E Major, BWV 1006: Gigue (Transcribed by Rachmaninov) (01:04)

Personnel:
Sergei Kasprov, piano

Composers:
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Godowsky, Leopold (1870-1938)
Loeillet, Jean Baptiste (1688-c.1720)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-87)
Rachmaninov, Sergey Vassilievich (1873-1943)
Rameau, Jean Philippe (1683-1764)
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Tausig, Carl (1841-71)

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