Kapustin: Piano Concerto No. 5 and Other Works

It was like a minor miracle when Nikolai Kapustin's music was discovered by a wider audience in the West: Who was this Soviet (!) composer whose works sounded most like Oscar Peterson improvisations... yet were fully composed "classical" music, with complex scores so densely packed with notes they were completely black? Thanks to the Rastatt-based pianist Frank Dupree, you can delve ever deeper into Kapustin's unique sound world, whether in the unmistakably jazzy piece such as the Concerto for Two Pianos and Percussion, the symphonic 5th Piano Concerto, or the cheeky Sinfonietta, which seems to originate from a smoke-filled bar in 1940s Manhattan.