CAPRICCIO

Ives / Barto,Tzimon Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 Concord CD1. I. Emerson 2. II. Hawthorne 3. III. the Alcotts 4. IV. Thoreau

It took Frank Martin a long time to heed his deep-seated inner calling to write a Requiem: 'What I have tried to express here is the clear will to accept death; to make peace with it.' The Requiem...

Many of the today-distinguished Soviet composers in the second half of the 20th century knew how to steer a middle course, enabling them to supply what was officially desirable all the while...

Kabalevsky / Schmid / Meister Russian Concertos CD1. I. Allegro Molto - Benjamin Schmid/Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra 2. II. Allegretto - Benjamin Schmid/Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra 3...

At first glance, it might be surprising that a pianist born in the Soviet Republic of Ukraine, who went through the classical Russian school of pianists, should compose exclusively in the idiom of...

When the music of Nikolai Kapustin was discovered by a wider audience in the West, it was positively shocking: Who was this Soviet (!) composer, whose music sounded more like an Oscar Peterson...

... our life is like jazz improvisation, it should always be spontaneous, always in the moment, and always free. (Nikolai Kapustin) Drawing parallels to another famous composer of symphonic jazz,...

Kapustin uses jazz as his musical language and then composes quasi-improvisations that sound as though they stemmed right from Oscar Peterson's or Erroll Garner's fingers. He is one of the few who...

In recent years, the jazz-like, classical and modern music by the Ukrainian composer Nikolai Kapustin (*1937) has become an inside tip on classical concert stages. During a visit to Nikolai Kasputin...

The composers and educators Eugen Werner Velte and Wolfgang Rihm as well as alumni whose music is presented here demonstrate the characteristics of a school. The main function of an institution such...

When Capriccio started out in 1982, still producing LPs and tapes, it was the first digital Beethoven Symphony cycle with the Dresden Philharmonic and Herbert Kegel that first turned heads. Several...

Khachaturian / Rias-Kammechor / Jurowski Spartacus CD1. Introduction 2. Act I: March of the Gladiators and the Egyptian Dancing-Girl 3. Act I: Phrygia's Dance and Scene of Separation 4. Act I: Dance...