Nikolai Kapustin: Variations, op. 3 for Piano and Orchestra

Nikolai Kapustin and the Oleg Lundstrem Jazz Orchestra performing Nikolai Kapustin: Variations, op. 3 for Piano and Orchestra

[@stephenjoeagi]

Without any doubt one of the greatest ever jazz pianists, and a superb unique composer.

[@prettypianogirl654]

I. Love. Nikolai. Kapustin.

[@biggreenlzrd]

I've also read somewhere that Kapustin himself didn't like improvising and preferred to "compose" instead. Can't remember where, though.

[@nkwebmaster]

It is indeed. It is from the LP Melodiya D 027931-2

[@thegreenthunder202]

I thought I saw that in a KZbin video (once). Some jazz players like myself will improvise the 1st hundred times through a chart, then switch to a basically written set of phrases to reliably play through the vagaries of the bar-gig situation, if you see what I mean.

[@Usefulmusic]

On that showing, Kapustin certainly was totally at home in the big band idiom. I wonder if his piano solo was improvised. If not (and his solo there sounds prepared) are there any recorded examples of him improvising Jazz? Do you have a date for this recording? Graham Lyons

[@SCRIABINIST]

15 years later... Yes the solo is prepared and written down in manuscript beforehand. Date of recording should be around the early-mid 1960s which was when this work was written along with several other now missing pieces

[@MaxBigazzi]

beautiful!!!

[@ericwang176]

Is it possible to get the CD or DVD of this great work plus other Kapustin's Big Band recodings?

[@flamingspinach]

@abmsghost Have you seen the scores of Kapustin's opus 87 "Seven Polyphonic Pieces for the Left Hand"? The tempo markings are not to be sniffed at, haha.

[@SCRIABINIST]

This video is older than me lol

[@peteblac.2186]

everywhere you are

[@robbiethemann]

is the theme an original?

[@RetroCreepy]

what i wouldnt do for a modern day recording of this

[@SCRIABINIST]

A Bu is here