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25 June 2026 · 8:00 pm

About the Album

FUSIONS is a jazz night at the concert grand: Gershwin’s New York elegance, Earl Wild’s dazzling virtuosity and Kapustin’s fully written-out jazz come together as three voices of one electrifying musical language.

This programme presents jazz not as a decorative touch within classical music, but as a vibrant, sophisticated and irresistibly virtuosic concert language - full of rhythm, freedom, melancholy, wit and pianistic brilliance.

Programme

George Gershwin

Three Preludes for Piano

Nikolai Kapustin

Variations, Op. 41

Earl Wild

Seven Virtuoso Études after Songs by George Gershwin:

Liza / Somebody Loves Me / The Man I Love / Embraceable You / Lady Be Good / I Got Rhythm / Fascinating Rhythm

PAUSE

Nikolai Kapustin

Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 54

Eight Concert Études, Op. 40 — selection

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Jeremy Nicholas, GRAMOPHONE

«Listening blind, could one tell that the pianist is Russian? High-octane virtuosity and cultivation of a long singing line are not enough on their own, though the beauty, colouring and, above all, depth of tone might have persuaded me. What one would not doubt in a blind listen is the nationality of the music that Medvedev has chosen.

BBC Music Magazine

«There’s something wonderfully unshowy about Medvedev’s performance here, despite the glittering quality of such works as Tchaikovsky’s Grand Sonata in G major. Other pianists might be tempted to showboat, but this is a pianist with poise and precision.»

Nikolay Medvedev