Vasily Kalafati: Piano Music

Catalogue No: TOCC0093
EAN/UPC: 5060113440938
Release Date: 2021-03-05
Composer: Vasily Kalafati
Artists: Jeremy Thompson

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The name of Vasily Pavlovich Kalafati (1869–1942), born to Greek parents in the Crimea, has a toe-hold in the history books as one of Stravinsky’s teachers, but he was an accomplished composer in his own right. The early piano works recorded here show the influence of Rimsky Korsakov (his teacher and friend) and other Russian-nationalist composers, but they also owe something to the examples of Chopin and Brahms, not least in their blend of passion and textural clarity. The vigour of these pieces stands in stark contrast to the ultimate fate of their composer: he starved to death during the Siege of Leningrad.

Jeremy Thompson, piano

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    Nocturne, La Nuit à Goursouf, Op. 5 (1900)

  1. Nocturne, La Nuit à Goursouf, Op. 5

    2. 5 Preludes, Op. 7 (1901)

  2. No. 1 Allegro; C major
  3. No. 2 Andante; F minor
  4. No. 3 Andantino; D flat major
  5. No. 4 Allegretto; A major
  6. No. 5 Lento; B flat minor

    7. Deux Nouvellettes, Op. 6 (1901)

  7. No. 1 Allegro moderato

    8. Piano Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 4, No. 1 (c. 1895)

  8. I Allegro moderato
  9. II Adagio – Allegretto
  10. III Finale. Allegro con brio

    11. 3 Bagatelles, Op. 9 (1905–6)

  11. No. 1 Scherzino
  12. No. 2 Valse-Impromptu
  13. No. 3 L’Enterrement d’un Oiseau

    14. Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 4, No. 2 (c. 1895)

  14. I Allegro con brio
  15. II Andante
  16. III Scherzo. Allegro
  17. IV Finale. Andante – Presto

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