Giorgio Koukl - Complete Piano Music 6 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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.

Giorgio Koukl' survey of Martinu' complete piano music has been praised as Incha delightInch and Inchestimable and importantInch. Since the of Volume 4, which was originally intended to be the final disc of this series, several manuscripts of previously unreleased material.

Polish composer Alfons Szczerbinski was a Romantic who revered Bach, Haydn and Mozart above all others. Many of his scores were lost during the First World War or destroyed by the composer himself. His most extrovert music exudes the panache and rhythmic brio of Chopin whilst his series of Chansons sans paroles display a flair for harmonic fantasy and melodic beauty reminiscent of Mendelssohn. Giorgio Koukl's second volume of Szczerbinski's complete piano music reveals yet more discoveries by this unjustly neglected composer.