Release Date: 02 August 2024
Label: Toccata Classics - Cd / Toccata Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060113447265
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Janis Kepitis
Description
The Latvian composer Janis Kepitis (1908-89) has a fairly low profile even in his home country, never mind beyond its borders. His output was nonetheless substantial, with no fewer than six symphonies to his name, ten concertos, a number of large-scale choral-orchestral pieces, countless songs and choruses and a voluminous body of chamber music - almost all of it unknown. Kepitis was himself a gifted pianist, and his hundred or so compositions for piano show a predilection for the miniature. The works here, most of them discovered among his manuscripts, inhabit a world downstream from Skryabin and Rachmaninov, with a gentle hint of Debussy, an occasional wisp of Latvian folk-music, and, here and there, just a hint of jazz.
Ian Hobson
Nora Luse; Janis Kepitis
Malte Muller; Werner Heinrich Schmitt
Kreutzer Quartet
Jan Lehtola
Darlington String Quartet; Gladys Chua
Danielle Breisach; Andrew Briggs; Yana Avedyan
BuschKollegium; Lisa Wittig; Ulrich Wagner
