Discography

Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 6

Nikolai Kapustin

Nikolai Kapustin (1937–2020): Piano Concerto No. 2 op. 14 & No. 6 op. 74; Variations op. 3 and Toccata op. 8 for piano & big band; Nocturne op. 16 and Concert Rhapsody op. 25 for piano & orchestra

Frank Dupree, SWR Big Band, SWR Symphonieorchester, Dominik Beykirch

It was a small miracle when Nikolai Kapustin's music was discovered by a wider audience in the West: Who was this Soviet (!) composer, whose works sounded most like Oscar Peterson improvisations ... and yet were fully composed "classical" music, with complicated scores, all black with notes?! As we are now discovering more and more of Kapustin's music, and as can be heard on this recording, Kapustin developed his style subtly and steadily. He moves with the times; the jazz that influences him changes over the years and so does his music. In this sense, Kapustin never really settled on a "found style" for himself, but remained flexible with regard to the material that inspired him - but also its integration into the classical orchestral body. Kapustin's style, in this sense, is only that he fused jazz and classical music so inseparably.

Release date: 01.11.2024
Label: Capriccio
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Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Concerto No. 5

Nikolai Kapustin

Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020): Piano Concerto No. 5 op. 72; Concerto for two pianos & percussion op. 104; Sinfonietta op. 49 for piano 4-hands

Frank Dupree, Adrian Brendle, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Dominik Beykirch

It was a small miracle when Nikolai Kapustin's music was discovered by a wider audience in the West: Who was this Soviet (!) composer whose works sounded most like Oscar Peterson improvisations ... and yet were fully composed "classical" music, with complicated scores, all black with notes?! As we now discover more and more of Kapustin's music (and there is still a lot of unheard music!), despite all the supposedly familiar musical borrowings, a very individual, always enchanting voice crystallises: whether in such an unapologetically jazzy piece as the Concerto for Two Pianos and Percussion, the symphonic 5th Piano Concerto or the cheeky Sinfonietta, which seems to transport us to a smoky bar in 1940s Manhattan.

Release date: 03.02.2023
Label: Capriccio
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Lanzelot

Lanzelot

Opera by Paul Dessau (1894–1979)

Emily Hindrichs, Mate Solyom-Nagy, Oleksandr Pushniak, Wolfgang Schwaninger, Uwe Stickert u.a., Opernchor des Deutschen Nationaltheaters Weimar, Chor des Theaters Erfurt, Kinderchor schola cantorum Weimar, Staatskapelle Weimar, Dominik Beykirch

Lanzelot only saw three productions during Dessau's lifetime, after which the play disappeared from the stage, and a recording was never produced. It was only 50 years after the premiere that the National Theatre Weimar and the Erfurt Theatre dared to take on the challenges of the play again. Lanzelot was staged in Weimar at the end of 2019 by Peter Konwitschny and directed by Dominik Beykirch, but unfortunately, the Erfurt takeover was thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic. This edited recording demonstrates the power of Paul Dessau's music and its message, which is still burningly relevant today, three decades after the end of the Cold War.

Release date: 05.01.2023
Label: Audite
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Malte & Mezzo – Die Klassikentdecker: Peter und der Wolf

Malte & Mezzo – Die Klassikentdecker: Peter und der Wolf

With works by Sergeij Prokofieff (1891-1953), Text version by Loriot

Malte Arkona (narrator), Dresdner Philharmonie, Dominik Beykirch

Mezzo finds simply walking through the forest boring, he would much rather relax at home and put his feet up. If only there was a chip tree! The only thing that helps is an exciting story that has been told for many years. A scary wolf is spreading fear and terror. It's suddenly so quiet on the pond. Where is the grumpy duck? Can the cat in the tree hold back its hunger? Or will it get in the way of Peter and the brave bird? Because the two of them already have a plan that Peter's grandfather and the tipsy hunters can only marvel at...

Release date: 26.03.2021
Label: Berlin Classics
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Sebastian Manz – Clarinet Concertos
Nielsen & Lindberg

Sebastian Manz – Clarinet Concertos
Nielsen & Lindberg

With works by Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) and Magnus Lindberg (born 1958)

Sebastian Manz (clarinet), Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Dominik Beykirch, Magnus Lindberg

On his new album, Sebastian Manz explores the clarinet concertos by Danish composer Carl Nielsen and Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg. Both are known for creating overwhelming, abstract sound structures that allow the nature of their home countries to appear before their listeners like a sound painting. Together with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern, Sebastian Manz presents three works that transport the listener to Nordic landscapes and paint audible sound pictures despite their musical complexity.

Release date: 04.09.2020
Label: Berlin Classics
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