Alexei Stanchinsky |
The programme combines solo piano items with orchestra music, with two Scriabin Etudes and Stanchinsky's Sonata in E flat minor, alongside Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 (with Umerkulova as soloist) including Clara Schumann's cadenza for the concerto (written in 1846).
Alexei Stanchinsky was born in 1888 and studied at Moscow Conservatory. Taught by Taneyev and recognised as a significant talent by Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Medtner, his early death in 1914 has meant that his music has been all but forgotten. You can see Nafis Umerkulova's introduction to the music on the disc on YouTube.
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