KAPUSTIN, N.: Piano Concerto No. 4 • Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings
Dupree • Württemberg Chamber Orchestra of Heilbronn • C. Scaglione
Capriccio C5437

Significantly influenced by his experience of playing in some of the earliest Soviet jazz bands, Nikolai Kapustin trained as a pianist at the Moscow Conservatory but subsequently devoted himself to composition. His output includes many works for piano, two of which are featured on this new album—the Fourth Piano Concerto and the Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra, along with his Chamber Symphony, Op. 57. Raymond Bisha introduces both the music and the propulsive energy of Frank Dupree who appears variously as piano soloist and conductor throughout the programme.