Credits:

Noga Quartet & Siobhan St

Description:

Young German Bach player Shahayev Nosrati plays Alkan!Born in Bochum, Germany in 1989, pianist Shahayev Nosrati won second prize at the International Bach Competition 2014 in Leipzig, and has released two Bach albums. Nosraty has been attracting a lot of attention as a young Bach player. C'Avi-music presents an album by Charles-Valentin Alkan, a composer that Nosrati has been fascinated by since he was a child. Arcand, a French Romantic musician, was a virtuoso on par with Chopin and Liszt, and is regarded as one of the greatest composers and pianists in history. The main work on this album, "Concerto for Solo Piano," consists of three pieces from the eighth to the tenth movement of "12 Exercises in Minor Keys," and the first movement alone takes about 30 minutes to play, and the entire piece takes about 50 minutes. As the title suggests, this is one of Alkan's masterpieces that expresses brilliant, dramatic, and romantic music with only one piano, as if it were a piano concerto with an orchestra in the background.Nosrati, who apart from his avid exploration of Bach's music also studied Alkan's compositional style from an early age and was greatly inspired by Alkan's performances played by Marc-André Amrand, will explore the rich and complex essence of Alkan's music. Tokyo M-Plus

Tracklisting:

1.Esquisses, Op. 63~No. 01 La Vision
2.Esquisses, Op. 63~No. 02 Le Staccatissimo
3.Esquisses, Op. 63~No. 48 En Songe
4.Toccatina, Op. 75
5.Esquisses, Op. 63~No. 31 Debut De Quatuor
6.Esquisses, Op. 63~No. 43 Notturnino-Innamorato
7.Etude alla barbaro, WoO
8.Esquisses, Op. 63~No. 26 Petit Air. Genre Ancien
9.Esquisses, Op. 63~No. 11 Les Soupirs
10.Esquisses, Op. 63~No. 12 Barcarollette
11.Concerto pour Piano Seul~I. Allegro assai (Etude, Op. 39 No. 8)
12.Concerto pour Piano Seul~II. Adagio (Etude, Op. 39 No. 9)
13.Concerto pour Piano Seul~III. Allegretto alla barbaresca (Etude, Op. 39 No. 10)