Kapustin: Between the Lines Shop Now

Rondo Magazine

Now, the young Brit Ophelia Gordon has equipped her debut album with her favorite pieces from Kapustin’s 161 works, and one is amazed at how deadly courageous and straightforwardly she punches the unplayable material into the Steinway, which is nevertheless very present, as if she deliberately wanted to set herself apart from all the plush club atmosphere. No, Ophelia Gordon emphasizes the avant-garde side, the incredible inner complexity of these meticulously polished structures down to the last detail with a completely pedal-less, energetic conciseness, thus fragmenting the life-giving “groove” and everything seductive in the exuberance of contrapuntal sharpness. Nevertheless: a strong plea for a still underestimated genius who has opened up completely new worlds for the “classical” piano repertoire.

—Attila Csampai

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