Impromptus – Katya Apekisheva

   in Piano International (Nov, 2018)
This is an intelligently structured recital, shifting back and forth through time, built around the complete (more or less) Impromptus of Chopin, Fauré ANDSCRIABIN; only the latter’s Op 7 Impromptus à la Mazur are missing. The Scriabin pieces, published in pairs, provide the programme’s framework, with the early Op 2/3 of 1889 as an encore. Between the first two sets come Fauré’s five Impromptus in chronological sequence, crowned by Cortot’s transcription of the D-flat major Impromptufor harp from 1904. Between the second pairs of Scriabin lie Chopin’s three Impromptus (1837, 1838 and 1842) and the earlier Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor (1834).

The three composers’ views of the form are quite …