Glazu/ Lenconi - Music for Piano 4A precocious Alexander Kostantinovich Glazunov at 16 took the Russian concert scene by storm. The teenage composer had plentiful musical ideas, a full mastery of form and enviable skill in orchestration, certainly influenced by his teacher, Rimsky Korsakov. However, unlike his predecessors, the "Mighty Handful", Glazunov lived through the political unrest that ultimately led to the Russian revolution and to communism. His directorship of the St

Formed in 1984

The Serenade concludes with an expansive variation movement where Beethoven does at last acknowledge some debt to Mozart - yet the overall impression left by both works is of a skilled craftsmanship that owes most to the teaching he received from Haydn and Salieri

then not even 17 years old

an affinity that deepens with each new recording

Constant Lambert held jazz in high esteem and his Trois Pièces - written to be played entirely on the piano's white keys - form a high-spirited and heartfelt tribute to it's rhythmical vitality and inventiveness

it is all based on the original sources

Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman is a master storyteller

nephew of the celebrated François Francœur

Running through this album is a path from despair and sin through revelation

Stoned Woman

became her melodic confidant and experimental co-conspirator

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