Dmitry Korostelyov, Maria Dzhemesiuk - Peyko: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1-2 (2014)

Tracklist

Peyko: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1
01. Ballada
02. Piano Sonata No. 1: I. Moderato: Allegro con agitazione
03. Piano Sonata No. 1: II. Allegretto
04. Piano Sonata No. 1: III. Andante sustenuto
05. Piano Sonata No. 1: IV. Allegro
06. Variations
07. Piano Sonatina No. 2: I. Moderato con moto
08. Piano Sonatina No. 2: II. Allegro energico
09. Bylina
10. Piano Sonata No. 2: I. Allegro
11. Piano Sonata No. 2: II. Moderato
12. Piano Sonata No. 2: III. Allegro non troppo
13. Concert Triptych: I. Prelude and Toccata
14. Concert Triptych: II. Nocturne
15. Concert Triptych: III. Waltz-Poem

Peyko: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 2
01. Concert Etude
02. Piano Sonatina No. 1 in D Major: I. Allegro con spirito
03. Piano Sonatina No. 1 in D Major: II. Larghetto
04. Piano Sonatina No. 1 in D Major: III. Finale. Allegro
05. Sonatina-Skazka in D Minor
06. Piano Sonata No. 3: I. Toccata. Allegro molto
07. Piano Sonata No. 3: II. Intrada - Lamento. Andante
08. Piano Sonata No. 3: III. Scherzo
09. Piano Sonata No. 3: IV. Prelude - Fugue. Adagio
10. Sonata for the Left Hand: I. Allegro
11. Sonata for the Left Hand: II. Adagio
12. Sonata for the Left Hand: III. Moderato
13. Sonata for the Left Hand: IV. Sostenuto
14. Concert Variations for Two Pianos


Nikolai Peyko (1916–95) is a major Russian composer who is completely unknown in the west. He studied with Myaskovsky at the Moscow Conservatoire, where he later became Shostakovich’s teaching assistant and then an important teacher in his own right.

Peyko is another composer who wrote nine symphonies, and much other orchestral music besides, but he fell foul of the Soviet regime and was sidelined. His piano music shares Shostakovich’s fondness for irony and Prokofiev’s for driving march-rhythms and playful good humour, but sounds an individual tone of its own nonetheless.

This second and final CD in this complete recording of his piano music is the first time that any of this music has been heard recorded on a western label.

Dmitry Korostelyov, born in 1979 in Volgograd, graduated from the Moscow State Conservatoire in 2003 and 2005 completed his composition studies in the post-graduate course of the Moscow State Conservatoire. As a pianist, he has performed with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra and Russkaya Conservatoria Chamber Capella. He appears as pianist and harpsichordist in many Russian cities, and in 2012 he performed in the Irish-Russian chamber-music festival ‘From John Field to the 21st Century’ in Moscow. His first recording for Toccata Classics was of song-cycles by Mieczysław Weinberg (TOCC0078). He was recently ordained a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church.

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