Nikolai Kapustin (1937–2020) occupies a distinctive place in 20th- and 21st-century music. A classically trained pianist and composer, Kapustin cleverly fused the formal, structural rigour of classical music with the rhythmic vitality and improvisational idioms of jazz. His works defy

The passing of Nikolai Kapustin is undoubtedly a great loss to the classical music world. He had remained largely obscure until the recent decades, thanks to Steven Osborne and Marc-André Hamelin’s recordings on Hyperion in the early 2000s. Since then,

Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 103 II. Lento From KAPUSTIN, N.: Cello Works (2016) Released by SWR Klassik Kapustin: Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 103 – II. LentoIf one wanted to describe the essence of this recording of Nikolai Kapustin’s