Lyapunov : Musique pour piano. Glebov.

Piano International (Mar, 2014)
For many, the piano music of Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924) is represented by Louis Kentner’s association with the Transcendental Studies. Chandos has expanded the envelope with a recording of the Second Piano Concerto, while Hyperion has recorded both. Toccata Classics’ valuable disc presents a chronological survey of the composer’s solo piano music.

Lyapunov was invited by Nikolai Rubinstein to the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Tchaikovsky and Taneyev. He was later linked to Balakirev in St Petersburg. His favoured teacher was Karl Klindworth, a pianist of the Liszt school, which perhaps accounts for the Lisztian influences heard here. But there are also shadows of Chopin in the first of the Op …