Sergei Kasprov - Exploring Time with My Piano (2014) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Premier livre de pièces de clavecin: Prélude
02. Renaissance, Book 1: Menuet in A Minor (After Jean-Philippe Rameau)
03. Renaissance, Book 1: Sarabande in E Major (After Jean-Philippe Rameau)
04. Renaissance, Book 1: Rigaudon in E Major (After Jean-Philippe Rameau)
05. Lesson I in E Minor for the Harpsichord or Spinet: Allemande
06. Lesson I in E Minor for the Harpsichord or Spinet: Courante
07. Renaissance, Book 2: Sarabande in E Minor (After Jean Baptiste Loeillet: Lesson I in E Minor for the Harpsichord or Spinet: Slow Air)
08. Lesson I in E Minor for the Harpsichord or Spinet: Gigue
09. 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)
10. Sonata in B Minor, Kk. 87
11. Sonata in E Major, Kk. 162
12. Sonata in D Minor, Kk. 9: Pastorale (Transcribed in E Minor by Tausig)
13. Sonata in E Major, Kk. 20: Capriccio (Transcribed by Tausig)
14. Suite in A Minor, BWV 818-A: I. Prelude
15. Suite in A Minor, BWV 818-A: II. Allemande
16. Suite in A Minor, BWV 818-A: III. Courante
17. Suite in A Minor, BWV 818-A: IV. Sarabande
18. Suite in A Minor, BWV 818-A: V. Menuet
19. Suite in A Minor, BWV 818-A: VI. Gigue
20. Partita in E Major, BWV 1006: Prelude (Transcribed by Rachmaninov)
21. Partita in E Major, BWV 1006: Gavotte (Transcribed by Rachmaninov)
22. Partita in E Major, BWV 1006: Gigue (Transcribed by Rachmaninov)

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)

For his first recording on the Alpha label, Sergey 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, Sergey 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!

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