Kapustin Jazz Etudes

[diegocaetano]

Here is my performance of KApustin Concert Etude 7
Hope you like it!

[49410enrique]

simply splendid! you manage to 'get into a groove' similar to how Kapustin plays these in his recordings.  they don't sound as 'mechanical/blazing fast' as the Hamelin and Shan-Shan Sun versions (which are both great performers and recordings but i like these to sound a little more 'relaxed' even the fast ones).

i'm obsessed with Kapustin's music and hope to bein work on one of the Etudes soon (maybe sometime next year), it's great to hear someone perform this. thanks for sharing.


PS Edit (this reply was from your replica post in the rep forum), welcome to the board (i see you're new). just wanna say it goes both ways, we're happy to listen and comment but we'd ask for you to be considerate and attempt to listen to others and provide feedback too (i've seen at times some piansits will post their performaces on various media formats and expect folks to listen and critique comment etc but they don't exactly do the same for others). again welcome and great job on this etude!

[rachfan]

This is a stylish and completely convincing rendition of this etude.  Excellent!  Thanks for posting it.

David

[cassiomartinez]

Awesome! Where are you from?

[diegocaetano]

I am from Brazil, but I am living in the USA now. I am finishing my masters in piano and going to my doctors! thank you for commenting!:)

[alessandro]

And here some critic with a little 'minor' in it.  
Thank you for posting some Kapustin.   I like Kapustin, I do not love him.   I have not the technical capacities to play this piece, and I'm still looking for a piece to start with, cause Kapustin is very interesting.   Two things that I find titillating in Kapustin's music is first of all the apparent contradiction, or combination of jazz and classical or the other way around.   Both ways, there is something awkward (I know someone that puts salami and chocolate-paste on his sandwich, for me, that is weird).   And the second thing, is that Mr. Kapustin himself points out that one shouldn't take, play his compositions too liberally, but just play, rhythmically, as it is written out, don't get lost in it.   It sounds like an advice to avoid the jazz in it.   Just because of these two things together, I can stand some composure in every Kapustin't performance, I listen to them with some severeness.
So, your performance, diegocaetano, I liked it, alright.   But, one thing, one big thing I think, and I'm looking forward to hear your reaction (or some reaction of other Kapustin performers), it does not sound comfortable.   In fact, I can clearly hear multiple spots with obvious tension (in your arms ?), moments where you don't really know what to do interpretation-wise.   And this could just mean that when interpreting this music one has to deal throughout the whole piece with this "inside contradiction", how to play it in a funny, pleasing way, communicating the jazz "inside", "caught in" this classical frame.   I think it could should be played more loosely, I think you are not feeling comfortable enough in the approach of Kapustins music.

Very kind greetins from an amateur.

[pianoplayjl]

Sick as! Interesting piece because it is incorporating jazz elements into an etude which I've never heard before. Kapustin never considered himself a jazz musician, rather a composer. well done because the dynamics were soft and I noticed that in quite a lot of jazz music. I'm not sure if jazz music is meant to be loud. Sort of sounds like chamber music.

  I like Kapustin, I do not love him.   

I don't understand.

JL

[alessandro]

I don't understand.

JL

Hello,

Well, yeah, I make this distinction between "loving" and "liking".   Loving is for me a more disturbing feeling, implying and interfering with the whole of my self and my everyday life.  It's not a matter of value, but for me it's easier and more common to like than to love.


After a second listening, I will blame my feeling more to Kapustin's compositions than to the interpretation of Diegocaetano.  Today, I'm milder than yesterday    Though, there are some interpretations of Kapustin's music that I do like, it's just that here, in some spots, this Etude sounds like a ride on a bike with oval wheels.
Kapustin's music sounds to my ears as cerebral works, more technical sketch, much framework, more architecture than (gorgeous) music.   I hear more guts and unexpected jazz in Bach's Capriccio of Partita II for example. For me, Kapustin's music comes more out of a study than out of a belly.   Very nice, but perhaps just not my cup of tea (yet ?).

Very kind greetings to you all.

[diegocaetano]

thanks for the comments guys!

[diegocaetano]

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