TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE - Kostandin Tashko

 TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE (CVLD332)

Kostandin Tashko, piano

Available in: HD File, CD

Nikolai Karlovich Medtner
01 - Sonata Reminiscences op.38 in A minor n.1 from Forgotten Melodies I, 15'56"

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev
The Nutcracker Suite, 17'50"
02 - March, 1'59"
03 - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, 2'09" 
04 - Tarantella, 1'22"
05 - Intermezzo, 4'13"
06 - Trepak (Russian Dance), 1'12"
07 - The Tea (Chinese Dance), 1'22"
08 - Pas de deux (Andante maestoso), 5'33"

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka, 17'40" 
09 - Danse russe, 2'50" 
10 - Chez Pétrouchka, 5'17"
11 - La semaine grasse, 9'33"

Tot. time: 51'32"

24bit/88.2kHz original recording made at Laboratorio ZANTA, Camponogara, Italy, on December 3, 4, 2020
Kostandin Tashko plays on Steinway & Sons D274 Concert Grandpiano, prepared and tuned by Silvano Zanta

Production: VELUT LUNA
Executive producer: Marco Lincetto
Recording, mix and mastering engineer: Marco Lincetto
Musical producer and editing engineer: Mattia Zanatta
Text: Myriam Guglielmo
Inside photo: Marco Lincetto
Design and layout: L'Image

Kostandin Tashko    
 "... deep vision of the text, combined with great musical maturity. Very young, but already master of a very high level piano technique and a vast and important repertoire... "
Daniel Rivera, pianist (2020)
"..strong musical personality and talent clearly emerge from his artistic abilities...he never flaunts virtuosity for its own sake...he always subordinates it to a higher intellectual vision, which reflects a clear awareness of musical architecture."
Alessandro Taverna, pianist (2020)

Winner of numerous international competitions in Albania, Italy, Croatia, Great Britain, Macedonia, Kosovo, Switzerland-France, Slovenia, the Albanian pianist Kostandin Tashko has performed in important concert halls and festivals. His debut CD, on the KNS label, includes works by Liszt, Scriabin and Ravel. A student of the "J.Misja" High School in Tirana with Valbona Kasaj, he graduated with honours from the "Giuseppe Tartini" Conservatory of Music in Trieste under the guidance of Teresa Trevisan. Masterclasses with B.Lupo, A.Delle Vigne, R.Dalibaltayan, O.Gardon, D.Tomsic, R. Kinka, M.Miladinovic, V.Balzani, C.Elton, P.Gililov, N.Grubert.

Russia! Piano writing between composition, transcription and restitution. The path proposed by Kostandin Tashko in the name of the Russian musical tradition unfolds along a path that, although traced within the twentieth-century context, tends to look back nostalgically at a past with vaguely defined contours, between Medtner's dreamlike late romanticism, Tchaikovsky's fairy-tale and Stravinsky's ancestral. The undisputed protagonist is the piano, an instrument historically linked to compositional activity both as a starting point for the drafting of piano pieces entrusted to the performance of the composer himself, and as the recipient of transcriptions taken from orchestral pieces by the author or later performers.