Giorgio Koukl - Complete Piano Music 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Although they number approximately eighty out of a total ofover four hundred works, Martinu's compositions for solo piano have longbeen overshadowed by his orchestral and chamber music. This is the second in the Naxos complete Martinu piano works.

Grand Piano's Volume 2 of the cycle of complete piano works by the Russian born composer and pianist Alexander Tcherepnin focuses on Tcherpnin's early woks and includes world premiere recordings. Pianist Giorgio Koukl is the Prizewinner of many international music competitions including the H. Rahn competition (Switzerland) and the Alien Competition (Washington DC).

This first volume of Alexander Tcherepnin's extensive list of works for piano takes US from some of his earliest works as a precocious Russian teenager, through to significant and intensely expressive compositions. From the vitally youthful picture stories of the Bagatelles, through the remarkable Sonatas to the exploratory late Ascension, each work is a gold mine of astoundingly inventive and distinctively individual craftsmanship. Giorgio Koukl is a pianist/ harpsichordist and composer based in Lugano, Switzerland. Born in Prague in 1953, and studied at the State Music School and Conservatory, before moving to Switzerland in 1968 and continuing his studies at the Conservatories of Zurich and Milan. Koukl's effortless technique and expertise with this fascinating repertoire make him a perfect advocate for this composer's remarkable music.