This final volume in Nicholas Walker's much-admired survey of the complete solo piano music of Balakirev includes the composer's famous work for piano, Islamey, an exotic and ultra-virtuoso oriental tale. Also featured are previously unpublished and unrecorded miniatures - pieces that are both poetic and, in the case of the Elegy on the Death of a Mosquito, witty. Transcriptions of Glinka are included, and Walker has arranged Balakirev's passionate and sensual symphonic poem Tamara for solo piano, recreating textures redolent of the composer's own piano style. He also plays Au Jardin, an Idyll-Ã‰tude of rapt beauty and tenderness.

Tracklist:

La Fileuse
Au Jardin "Étude-Idyll"
Fantasy On 2 Russian Songs (Arr. M. Balakirev For Piano)
Tamara (Arr. N. Walker For Piano)
Polka In F-Sharp Minor
Elegy On The Death Of A Mosquito (Completed By N. Walker)
La Danse De Sorcières (Completed By N. Walker)
Do Not Say (Arr. M. Balakirev For Piano)
Tyrolienne In F-Sharp Major
Rêverie (Arr. M. Balakirev For Piano)
Toccata In C-Sharp Minor
A Farewell To St. Petersburg: No. 10, The Lark (Arr. M. Balakirev For Piano)
Oriental Fantasy, Op. 18 (Islamey)

UPC: 747313984626
Label: Grand Piano
Release Date: 9.11.20
Format: CD

Balakirev / Walker - Complete Piano Works 6 (CD)