Balakirev: Complete Works for Solo Piano / Walker

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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BALAKIREV, MILY
    • PERFORMER
      Nicholas Walker
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 10, 2021
    • UPC
      747313986422
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GP864X
    • LABEL
      Grand Piano
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      6
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Andantino

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    2. II. Mazurka: Moderato

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    3. III. Intermezzo: Larghetto

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    4. IV. Allegro non troppo, ma con fuoco

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    5. I. Andante - Allegro assai, feroce

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    6. II. Mazurka: Tempo di mazurka

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    7. III. Andante

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    8. I. Allegro feroce

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    9. II. Mazurka

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    10. III. Larghetto

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    11. IV. Finale: Allegro grazioso

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    12. V. Epilogue: Fuga

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    13. Waltz No. 1 in G Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    14. Nocturne No. 1 in B-Flat Minor

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    15. Waltz No. 2 in F Minor

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    16. Waltz No. 3 in D Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    17. Nocturne No. 2 in B Minor

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    18. Waltz No. 4 in B-Flat Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    19. Nocturne No. 3 in D Minor

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    20. Waltz No. 5 in D-Flat Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    21. Nocturne in G-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    22. Fantasy Piece in D-Flat Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    23. Waltz No. 6 in F-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    24. Chant du Pecheur

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    25. Waltz No. 7 in G-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    26. Mazurka No. 1 in A-Flat Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    27. Mazurka No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    28. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    29. II. L'Istesso tempo

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    30. III. Coda: Poco a poco più agitato

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    31. Berceuse in D-Flat Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    32. Mazurka No. 3 in B Minor

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    33. Mazurka No. 4 in G-Flat Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    34. Dumka in E-Flat Minor, "Complainte"

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    35. Mazurka No. 5 in C-Sharp Major (1884 version, completed by N. Walker)

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    36. Rêverie in F Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    37. Humoresque in D Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    38. Mazurka No. 6 in A-Flat Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    39. Piece in F-Sharp Minor (1851, 2nd version completed by N. Walker)

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    40. Mazurka No. 7 in E-Flat Minor

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    41. Capriccio in D Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    42. Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    43. Novelette in A Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    44. 10 Songs (1896): No. 2. Pustïnya (The Wilderness) (version for piano)

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    45. Scherzo No. 2 in B-Flat Minor

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    46. Fandango-étude

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    47. Sérénade espagnole

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    48. Glinka - Jota aragonesa (version for piano)

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    49. Berlioz - La fuite en Egypte: Ouverture

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    50. Scherzo No. 3 in F-Sharp Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    51. Mélodie espagnole

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    52. Taneyev - Valse-Caprice No. 1 in A-Flat Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    53. Taneyev - Valse-Caprice No. 2 in D-Flat Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    54. Réminiscences de l'opéra La vie pour le czar

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    55. Ruslan i Lyudmila: Chernomor's march (arr. M.A. Balakirev for piano)

      Composer: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    56. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11: II. Romanza: Larghetto (arr. M.A. Balakirev for piano)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    57. Impromptu (after Chopin's Preludes)

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    58. Scherzo No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 31 (cadenza by M.A. Balakirev)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    59. Mazurka brillante, S221/R43

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    60. Mazurka brillante, S221/R43 (cadenza by M.A. Balakirev)

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    61. String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2, "Rasumovsky": III. Allegretto (arr. M.A. Balakirev for piano)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    62. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: V. Cavatina (arr. M.A. Balakirev for piano)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    63. Gondellied in A Minor

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    64. Tarantella in B Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    65. Polonaise Brillante

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    66. La fileuse (The Spinner)

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    67. Au jardin (In the Garden), "Idyll-étude"

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    68. Kamarinskaya (arr. M.A. Balakirev for piano)

      Composer: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    69. Tamara (arr. N. Walker for piano)

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    70. Polka in F-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    71. Elegy on the Death of a Mosquito (completed by N. Walker)

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    72. La danse de sorcières (Witches' Dance) (completed by N. Walker)

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    73. Ne govori: lyubov' proydyot (Do not Say: Love Passes Away) (arr. M.A. Balakirev for piano)

      Composer: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    74. Tyrolienne

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    75. Rêverie (arr. M.A. Balakirev for piano)

      Composer: Platon Vasil'evich Zapol'sky

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    76. Toccata in C-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    77. Glinka - A Farewell to St. Petersburg: No. 10. Zhavoronok (The Lark)

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker

    78. Islamey, "Oriental Fantasy"

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Nicholas Walker


These recordings of Balakirev’s complete solo piano works by the much-lauded pianist Nicholas Walker have been hailed as ‘the reference set’ by the American Record Guide. Originally released between 2013 and 2020, these critically acclaimed performances are now collected together for the first time in a 6 album box set. Includes world premiere recordings. Hailed by the London Evening Standard as a 'prodigy, of awesome technical fluency backed by exceptional artistry', Nicholas Walker possesses a rare combination of talents combining sensitivity with 'the flair of a full scale virtuoso and a sparkling intelligence' (BBC Music Magazine). Nicholas Walker teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he devised the celebrated keyboard skills course, the advanced level of which not only helps students to be proficient in all aspects of practical musicianship, but offers them the chance to learn how to improvise in various forms, such as minuets, variations, sonatinas and Mozart-type cadenzas, in addition to devising and performing a virtuoso transcription of their own.

CONTENTS:

  • Balakirev: Piano Sonata in B flat minor
  • Balakirev: Piano Sonata No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 5
  • Balakirev: Piano Sonata in B flat minor, Op. 3 'Grand Sonata'
  • Balakirev: Waltz No. 1 in G - Valse di Bravura
  • Balakirev: Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor
  • Balakirev: Waltz No. 2 in F minor
  • Balakirev: Waltz No. 3 in D - Valse Impromptu
  • Balakirev: Nocturne No. 2 in B minor
  • Balakirev: Waltz No.4 in B flat
  • Balakirev: Nocturne No. 3 in D minor
  • Balakirev: Waltz No. 5 in D flat major
  • Balakirev: Nocturne in G sharp minor (early version of Nocturne No. 1)
  • Balakirev: Fantasiestuck
  • Balakirev: Chant du pêcheur
  • Balakirev: Waltz No. 7 in G sharp minor
  • Balakirev: Mazurka No. 1 in A Flat
  • Balakirev: Mazurka No. 2 in C sharp minor
  • Balakirev: Sonatina (Esquisses) in G
  • Balakirev: Berceuse
  • Balakirev: Mazurka No. 3 in B minor
  • Balakirev: Mazurka No. 4 in G flat minor
  • Balakirev: Dumka
  • Balakirev: Mazurka No. 5 in D
  • Balakirev: Rêverie in F major
  • Balakirev: Mazurka No. 6 in A Flat
  • Balakirev: Piece in F sharp minor
  • Balakirev: Mazurka No. 7 in E flat minor
  • Balakirev: Capriccio
  • Balakirev: Scherzo No. 1 in B minor
  • Balakirev: Novelette
  • Balakirev: Pustinya
  • Balakirev: Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor
  • Balakirev: Fandango-Etude
  • Balakirev: Spanish Serenade
  • Balakirev: Caprice Brilliant Sur La Jota Aragonesa
  • Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ, Op. 25: La fuite en Egypte - Overture
  • Balakirev: Scherzo No. 3 for Piano in F sharp major
  • Balakirev: Spanish Melody
  • Taneyev, S: Valse-Caprice No. 1 in A flat
  • Taneyev, S: Valse-Caprice No. 2 in D flat major
  • Glinka: Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar): Overture
  • Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila: Chernamor's March
  • Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Romanza (transc Balakirev)
  • Balakirev: Impromptu on the themes of two Preludes by Chopin
  • Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31
  • Liszt: Mazurka brillante, S221
  • Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2: Allegretto
  • Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130: Cavatina
  • Balakirev: Gondellied
  • Balakirev: Tarantelle in B
  • Balakirev: Polonaise Brillante
  • Balakirev: La fileuse
  • Balakirev: Au Jardin
  • Glinka: Kamarinskaya
  • Balakirev: Symphonic Poem 'Tamara'
  • Balakirev: Polka in F sharp minor
  • Balakirev: Elegy on the Death of a Mosquito
  • Balakirev: La Danse De Sorcières (Witches Dance)
  • Glinka: Ne Govori: Lyubov' Proydyot (Do Not Say: Love Passes Away)
  • Balakirev: Tyrolienne
  • Zapol'sky: Reverie
  • Balakirev: Toccata
  • Balakirev: The Lark
  • Balakirev: Islamey - Oriental Fantasy

Past praise of previously released volumes included in this set:

Balakirev: Complete Piano Works Vol 1

Walker presents the works in reverse chronological order, thereby giving us the best and best-known work first. It is a masterly performance, fully on a par with or exceeding ones I have reviewed in recent years: Hinrose (Mirare 181, Nov/Dec 2012), Driver (Hyperion 67806, July/Aug 2011), and Hellaby (Cameo 2081, Sept/Oct 2009). Besides Kentner’s great recording (Naxos 111223, not available in US), I also enjoy Earl Wild’s (Ivory 73005, May/June 2004). Walker finds inner voices and emphasizes some different aspects of the harmony and form, making for a new and well thought out interpretation. He has the full technical capability to handle all of the demands of this score

– American Record Guide

Balakirev: Complete Piano Works Vol 3

This third volume of Balakirev’s complete piano works is built around his seven Mazurkas, joyous and colourful pieces with an unmistakable Slavic tone. This series continues to establish Walker as the new reference for Balakirev’s music.

– Musiq3

Balakirev: Complete Piano Works Vol 5

This one is particularly fascinating for transcription junkies, beginning with the spectacular (and spectacularly difficult) Reminiscences on Glinka’s A Life for the Czar, famous from Earl Wild’s 1969 recording. Walker is quite his equal—and that is saying something—and is also beautifully recorded in a realistic, sympathetic acoustic. Indeed, Walker’s playing throughout this absorbing disc is a pleasure to hear, with a sophisticated tonal palette and eschewing any superficial virtuosity: ‘bravura with integrity’ is how I would describe it. Why don’t we hear more of him?

–Gramophone