LYAPUNOV Piano Works
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Composer or Director: Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Toccata Classics
Magazine Review Date: 03/2014
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 68
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: TOCC0218
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
3 Pieces |
Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer
Margarita Glebov, Piano Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer |
2 Mazurkas |
Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer
Margarita Glebov, Piano Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer |
Mazurka |
Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer
Margarita Glebov, Piano Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer |
Scherzo |
Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer
Margarita Glebov, Piano Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer |
Sonatina |
Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer
Margarita Glebov, Piano Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer |
3 Valse-Impromptus |
Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer
Margarita Glebov, Piano Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer |
Composer or Director: Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Ars Produktion
Magazine Review Date: 03/2014
Media Format: Super Audio CD
Media Runtime: 75
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ARS38 132
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Valse pensive |
Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer
Florian Noack, Piano Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer |
Tarantella |
Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer
Florian Noack, Piano Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer |
8 Mazurkas |
Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer
Florian Noack, Piano Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer |
3 Valse-Impromptus |
Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer
Florian Noack, Piano Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, Composer |
Author:
The shortest work is the Second Valse-impromptu, a feather-light confection à la Moszkowski (‘a bibelot of exquisite craftsmanship’ says the booklet) with some delightfully casual canonic episodes that Noack invests with great charm. Here and elsewhere he gets to the heart of this music, responding to such instructions as quasi flauto and then quasi piccolo in the middle section of the Fifth Mazurka with finesse. The Tarantella, Op 25, in which Lyapunov’s pianistic heritage of Chopin, Liszt, Henselt and Balakirev is combined in one fearsome moto perpetuo, is thrillingly dispatched. The lush piano sound is a joy. ARS Produktion’s booklet is translated into a strange version of English with terms that will fox the uninitiated (eg the ‘Myxolydian pedal’ in the Fifth Mazurka) and confound even a Scrabble champion: the Seventh Mazurka is, apparently, ‘assuredly zal’.
No such head-scratching with Toccata Classics – Margarita Glebov is as fascinating on the composer as Donald Manildi is on the music, nine works which Glebov plays in chronological order, beginning with Three Pieces, Op 1 (1888). Like the later tumultuous Scherzo, Op 45 (1911) – with that Islamey-esque leitmotif again – and the Sonatina, Op 65 (1917), these are first recordings.
If her tone is marginally less effulgent than Noack’s, Glebov’s affinity with Lyapunov’s distinctive brand of lyrical virtuosity, couched firmly in the language of the late 19th century, is complete. The remainder of her programme duplicates the three Valse impromptus and four of the eight mazurkas played by Noack, though the two pianists differ significantly on some tempi: Mazurkas Nos 1 and 2, for instance, are 4'26" and 5'12" (Noack), 3'31" and 6'02" (Glebov). So which disc to choose? It would assuredly be zal to have both.
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