A. TCHEREPNIN
COMPLETE PIANO MUSIC • 3

Giorgio Koukl’s survey of Alexander Tcherepnin’s inventive piano music continues with two 1950s collections that reflect a synthesis of the composer’s many earlier technical and expressive innovations – the virtuosic Eight Pieces, Op. 88 and the beguiling Expressions, Op. 81. These two cycles bracket a varied group of scores that ranges from the youthful Sturm und Drang of his Feuilles libres, Op. 10 through the more restrained lyricism of the Préludes, Opp. 23 and 24, and the quirky modernism of the Intermezzo, Op. 33a and Tanz, Op. 44a, to the relaxed songfulness and serene rhythmic play of the Etudes, Op. 56, written following a concert tour of the Far East.

8 pieCeS, op. 88 (13:51)
1  No. 1 Meditation (02:33)
2  No. 2 Intermezzo (01:13)
3  No. 3 Reverie (02:29)
4  No. 4 Impromptu (01:12)
5  No. 5 Invocation (01:34)
6  No. 6 The Chase (01:41)
7  No. 7 Etude (00:35)
8  No. 8 Burlesque (02:34)

FeuilleS libReS, op. 10 * (07:32)
9  I. Grave (01:59)
10  II. Avec douleur (02:31)
11  III. Excité (00:47)
12  IV. Lent avec tristesse (02:15)

4 pRÉluDeS noStalGiQueS, op. 23 (06:07)
13  No. 1 Lento (02:15)
14  No. 2 Allegretto (00:36)
15  No. 3 Tempestoso (00:46)
16  No. 4 Con dolore (02:30)

 

4 pRÉluDeS, op. 24 * (04:58)
17  No. 1 Giocoso (01:26)
18  No. 2 Adagio (00:50)
19  No. 3 Allegretto (00:45)
20  No. 4 Allegro (01:57)

21 inteRmezzo, op. 33a * (01:59)

tanz, op. poStH. * (01:32)

7 etudeS, op. 56 (11:12)
23  No. 1 Moderato (01:33)
24  No. 2 Allegro (00:51)
25  No. 3 Allegro marciale (01:28)
26  No. 4 Allegro (01:46)
27  No. 5 Allegro risoluto (01:13)
28  No. 6 Allegro moderato (01:37)
29  No. 9 Andantino (02:44)

 

expReSSionS, op. 81 (11:53)
30  I. Entrance (00:52)
31  II. The Hour of Death (02:17)
32  III. Caprice (01:03)
33  IV. Silly Story of the White Oxen (00:45)
34  V. Thief in the Night (00:51)
35  VI. At the Fair (01:14)
36  VII. Barcarole (01:50)
37  VIII. Blind Man’s Buff (00:42)
38  IX. At Dawn (01:26)
39  X. Exit (00:53)

* World Première Recordings

TOTAL TIME: 59:04
 

© Chiara Solari 		  GIORGIO KOUKL
Giorgio Koukl is a pianist/harpsichordist and composer based in Lugano, Switzerland. Born in Prague, he studied at the State Music School and Conservatory before moving to Switzerland and continuing his studies at the Conservatories of Zürich and Milan. Koukl’s complete recordings of Martinù's piano music for Naxos have been critically acclaimed as "a delight" (Gramophone) and "estimable and important" (MusicWeb International). Tcherepnin belonged to the same Parisian group of composers as Martinù, and Koukl’s effortless technique and expertise with this fascinating repertoire make him a perfect advocate for this composer’s remarkable music.
 

Chicago, 1950s
© Tcherepnin Society 		  ALEXANDER TCHEREPNIN (1899–1977)
From an artistic family, whose own father had been a pupil of Rimsky–Korsakov, Russian composer, pianist and conductor Alexander Tcherepnin had written music from a very young age. An exile from his native country in 1921, he was later based in Paris and the United States, where he continued to write music in every genre.


The recording of A. Tcherepnin’s Complete Piano Music has been released
with the support of the Tcherepnin Society of New York.
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