Miami International Piano Festival of Discovery, 2000, Vol. 1

Bela Bartok (Composer), Sergey Taneyev (Composer), Nikolay Medtner (Composer), Alexander Scriabin (Composer), Sergey Rachmaninov (Composer), Domenico Scarlatti (Composer), Franz Liszt (Composer), Leopold Godowsky (Composer), Claude Debussy (Composer), Camille Saint-Saens (Composer), Charles-Valentin Alkan (Composer), Piotr Anderszewski (Performer), Kemal Gekic (Performer), Ilya Itin (Performer), Francesco Libetta (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Piotr Anderszewski, Kemal Gekic, Ilya Itin, Francesco Libetta
• Composer: Bela Bartok, Sergey Taneyev, Nikolay Medtner, Alexander Scriabin, Sergey Rachmaninov, et al.
• Audio CD (October 23, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mip / Miami Int'l
• ASIN: B00005R5L8
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #561,497 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Bagatelles (14) for piano, Sz. 38, BB 50 (Op. 6): No. 1, Molto sostenuto - Piotr Anderszewski

2. Bagatelles (14) for piano, Sz. 38, BB 50 (Op. 6): No. 2, Allegro giocoso - Piotr Anderszewski

3. Bagatelles (14) for piano, Sz. 38, BB 50 (Op. 6): No. 3, Andante - Piotr Anderszewski

4. Bagatelles (14) for piano, Sz. 38, BB 50 (Op. 6): No. 4, Grave (arr. of Hungarian folksong 'Mikor gulyasbojtar voltam') - Piotr Anderszewski

5. Bagatelles (14) for piano, Sz. 38, BB 50 (Op. 6): No. 5, Vivo (arr. of Slovak folksong 'Ej' po pred nas, po pred nas') - Piotr Anderszewski

6. Bagatelles (14) for piano, Sz. 38, BB 50 (Op. 6): No. 6, Lento - Piotr Anderszewski

7. Bagatelles (14) for piano, Sz. 38, BB 50 (Op. 6): No. 7, Allegretto molto capriccioso - Piotr Anderszewski

8. Bagatelles (14) for piano, Sz. 38, BB 50 (Op. 6): No. 8, Andante sostenuto - Piotr Anderszewski

9. Bagatelles (14) for piano, Sz. 38, BB 50 (Op. 6): No. 9, Allegretto grazioso - Piotr Anderszewski

10. Bagatelles (14) for piano, Sz. 38, BB 50 (Op. 6): No. 10, Allegro - Piotr Anderszewski

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Disc: 2

1. Sonata for keyboard in G minor, K. 8 (L. 488) ('Bucolic') - Kemal Gekic

2. Sonata for keyboard in F minor, K. 519 (L. 475) - Kemal Gekic

3. Octave, etude for piano in E flat major (Transcendental Paganini Etude No. 2), S. 140/2 (LW A52/2) - Kemal Gekic

4. Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28: Allegro moderato - Kemal Gekic

5. Vocalise, transcription for piano, Op. 34/14 - Ilya Itin

6. Polka W.R., for piano in A flat major, TN ii/18 - Ilya Itin

7. Prelude for piano No.2 in F sharp minor, Op. 23/1 - Ilya Itin

8. Prelude for piano No.17 in F minor, Op. 32/6 - Ilya Itin

9. Prelude for piano No.18 in F major, Op. 32/7 - Ilya Itin

10. Prelude for piano No.11 in G flat major, Op. 23/10 - Ilya Itin

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Five Excellent Pianists and a Feast of Musical Delights!, December 28, 2005

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This review is from: Miami International Piano Festival of Discovery, 2000, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

The Miami International Piano Festival of Discovery is well named: this two CD set offers fresh young talent in a variety of music played with all the drama of a competition. It is very well recorded and contains some truly magical moments.

There are five pianists represented here and their choices of competition entries in many ways helps define their abilities and musicality. Piotr Anderszewski offers the Bartok Opus 6 Bagatelles, electing to explore all 14 of these little pieces to keep with the unity of Bartok's conception. They are models of clean definitive performances. Denis Burstein on the other hand selects various works by Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Medtner, and Taneyev showing his penchant for the obscure as well as the well known. Kemal Gekic programs Scarlatti with Liszt and Rachmaninov and offers valid stances on each. Ilya Itin opts of an all Rachmaninov collection from the lovely 'Vocalize' through six of the Preludes. Francesco Libetta closes with paraphrases on Chopin by Godowsky and works by Debussy, Saint-Saens and Alkan.

Of interest the pianist who has become most popular with the public since this 2000 year competition is Piotr Anderszewski, but from the experience of listening to the entire group, one would expect more will come from the other four, too! A delightful set of recordings. Grady Harp, December 05