I have been listening widely to this amazing Russian composer. Jazz influenced, he studied with Russian pedagogue Alexander Goldenweiser, and videos of Kapustin performing show that he amazing fluency and a biting rhythm. Over 100 opus numbers to his credit, hats off to him... Would love to know more about him, and how he survived all these years as a composer before being 'discovered' only recently.
His Concert Etude which I have been learning recently is tricky, but yields to practice.
There seems to be an inverse law, that pieces which sound difficult really do become easier the more you practice (Liszt, Kapustin), but pieces which sound easy (such as some Mozart and Bach) seem to become harder and harder!
His Concert Etude which I have been learning recently is tricky, but yields to practice.
There seems to be an inverse law, that pieces which sound difficult really do become easier the more you practice (Liszt, Kapustin), but pieces which sound easy (such as some Mozart and Bach) seem to become harder and harder!
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