The Russian composer Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977) launched his international career as a pianist and composer from Paris. He won a number of prizes and embarked on yearly concert tours to the United States, yet he was restlessly searching for a

Commissioned by the Associated Music Publishers in New York, Alexander Tcherepnin premiered his second symphony in Chicago on 20 March 1952. It took Tcherepnin a long while to finish the composition, as he labored on the orchestration for the better

10 Bagatelles, Op. 5 Dolce Giorgio Koukl, piano From Tcherepnin – Complete Piano Music 1 (2012) Released by Naxos Tcherepnin: 10 Bagatelles, Op. 5 – Dolce This programme demonstrates Russian-born Alexander Tcherepnin’s mastery of the miniature and the monumental, speaking