EAN: 9781784549077

PIANO CONCERTO IN A MINOR GEHEFTET

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940)  hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as
Stravinsky's piano teacher  is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg
Conservatoire  she emerged as a virtuoso pianist and composer in the romantic tradition. She
was associated with some of the great musicians of her day  including Balakirev and Auer. She
performed in both Germany and the UK in the 1900s  but her career petered out after 1920.The
Piano Concerto (1900) is Kashperova's earliest surviving orchestral work  and it was premiered
by the composer the following year in Moscow and St Petersburg  bringing her much wider
recognition and paving the way for an international career. Cast in three movements and in a
Romantic idiom  pianistic virtuosity is often channelled into the pianist's left hand  which is
required to negotiate widely-spaced 'extreme' arpeggios - awkwardly angular when adagio 
fiendishly technical when molto allegro. Kashperova's orchestral colours are achieved by
felicitous solos for the woodwind  horns and brass. Noteworthy  too  are unexpected glimpses of
chamber music when  in the last movement for example  the piano combines fleetingly with solo
violin and solo cello in passages. The concerto's quick music (Molto allegro and Allegro con
anima) admirably portrays the vivacious personality of their composer  described in 1906 as
offering those around her 'an abundance of joy  excitement and fun'. The central movement  by
contrast  is a tender Adagio which offers the listener a gem of musical
poetry.Instrumentation:piano and orchestraop. 2

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