Grigory Ginzburg - Russian Piano Tradition: Goldenweiser School - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Rautio Piano Trio makes their Resonus Classics recording debut with a disc of three piano trios by Mozart. Particularly well-known for presenting a wide range of the trio repertoire on both period and modern instruments, the Trio performs here on period instruments including a fortepiano that once belonged to the late Christopher Hogwood CBE.

Riki is the Los Angeles based dark synth-pop outfit commandeered by the mysterious Niff Nawor, a visual artist and musician active in the deathrock / anarcho-punk scenes of the California bay area (formerly a member of Crimson Scarlet), before founding her solo endeavor as Riki in 2017. Niff's desire to explore her own sound manifested in the recording of the Hot City cassette tape in 2017, which featured Chelsey Crowley of Crimson Scarlet, Skot Brown of Phantom Limbs and Pedaof Doomed to Extinction. Released on Commodity Tapes and later reissued on vinyl by the well-regarded Symphony of Destruction tag, Riki followed the of the single with several small tours and festival dates, performing with such acts as Light Asylum, Black Marble, and Trisomie 21. For her self-titled debut album for Dais, Riki explores courage, physicality, and romance across eight timeless synth pop anthems. Produced and engineered by hardware-based synthesist Matia Simovich of INHALT, influences and ideas are worn proudly without deviating from fresh and daring electro-pop territory. Nostalgic cues can be heard ranging from Neue Deutsch Welle, early Adrian Sherwood productions, classic ZYX Italo Disco, Japanese Visual Kei and even classic new wave/pop like Pat Benatar, Kate Bush, and early Madonna.

Debussy's richly evocative 'Estampes' takes us through exotic gamelan-like sonorities from East Asia and the strumming guitars of Spain, to end amid the bracing excitement of a violent rainstorm in Normandy. Alexander Panfilov was a laureate at the Premio Jaen competition in 2016, at which Manuel Seco de Arpe's elegantly constructed and complex 'Anamorfosis' was the mandatory work. He concludes this recital with Mussorgsky's supremely descriptive 'Pictures at an Exhibition,' one of the great works of the Russian piano tradition. Alexander Panfilov was born in Moscow and gave his debut recital for the Moscow Philharmonic Society in 2010, and in the US at the Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall in New York. Since then, he has performed extensively around the world, in venues including the Musikverein in Vienna, the Zurich Tonhalle, Wigmore Hall, and others. As a soloist he has performed with orchestras all over Europe.