Chin, Kapustin, Lyapunov & Szymanowski: Piano Etudes

Featuring

Clare Hammond
Sergei Lyapunov
Unsuk Chin
Karol Szymanowski
Nikolai Kapustin

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Unsuk Chin, a South Korean composer, aims for a beauty that is 'abstract and remote' yet can communicate joy and warmth, reflecting her compositional ethos.

Composer Biography

Nikolai Kapustin, a Russian composer, started as a pianist and began studying jazz at 16, later deciding to focus on composition by fusing classical and jazz styles.

Compositional Technique

Nikolai Kapustin, a Russian composer, fuses formal classical structures with jazz idioms in his works, such as his Five Études in Different Intervals, which are each structured around a specific interval.

Compositional Technique

The 'étude' genre, initially a dry proposition for technical development, began to combine technical and expressive content with Chopin.

Composer Biography

Karol Szymanowski, a Polish composer, was exempted from military service during World War I due to poor health, allowing him to compose prolifically at his family home.

Recording & Production

This Hybrid SACD recording was made in September 2013 at Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, and aims to reproduce the natural sound of a concert venue using 5.0 Surround sound.

Performer Biography

Clare Hammond, the pianist on this album, is a passionate advocate for 20th and 21st-century music, known for her formidable technique and stylistic integrity.