Antonii Baryshevskyi Piano Recital

Featuring

Antonii Baryshevskyi
Domenico Scarlatti
Maurice Ravel
Claude Debussy
Daniel Mateos
Sergei Rachmaninoff

Igor Stravinsky

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Composition History

Since 1993, the Jaén International Piano Competition has included a mandatory work written by a Spanish composer specifically for the competition, subsidized by the Ministry of Culture.

Compositional Technique

Igor Stravinsky's "Three Movements from Petrushka" is considered by many to be the most technically challenging piano work of the twentieth century, featuring cascades of arpeggios and continuous changes of metre.

Composition History

Daniel Mateos's "Orión" was commissioned by the Jaén Provincial Council and Spain's Centre for the Dissemination of Contemporary Music (CDMC) for the 51st Jaén International Piano Competition.

Historical Context

The Jaén Prize International Piano Competition, which Antonii Baryshevskyi won in 2009, was established in 1953 and became an international competition in the 1970s.

Performer Biography

Antonii Baryshevskyi, the pianist on this album, has won fourteen national piano competitions and several international piano competitions, including the 51st Premio Jaén International Piano Competition in Spain in 2009.

Compositional Technique

Rachmaninov's Piano Sonata No. 2, in its 1931 revised version, is characterized by its power and tension with stormy passages, alongside languid melodic beauty and incandescent emotion.