Review: Kapustin's Unimaginably Fabulous Orchestral Music

Nikolai Kapustin, who passed away in 2020, was a Ukranian/Russian composer whose natural musical idiom happened to be jazz. His music is brilliant, sexy, exciting, soulful, insanely virtuosic, and just plain thrilling. This sensational disc contains his Fourth Piano Concerto, the Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings, and the Chamber Symphony, all spectacularly played by pianist Frank Dupree and colleagues on Capriccio Records. I guarantee this will become one of your favorite purchases of this or any year. Don't miss it.