Nicholas Walker - Mili Alekseyevich Balakirev: Complete Piano Works, Vol 6 - Islamey and Beyond

This final volume in Nicholas Walker�s much-admired survey of the complete solo piano music of Balakirev includes the composer�s famous work for piano, Islamey, an exotic and ultra-virtuoso oriental tale. Also featured are previously unpublished and unrecorded miniatures � pieces that are both poetic and, in the case of the Elegy on the Death of a Mosquito, witty. Transcriptions of Glinka are included, and Walker has arranged Balakirev�s passionate and sensual symphonic poem Tamara for solo piano, recreating textures redolent of the composer�s own piano style. He also plays Au Jardin, an Idyll-�tude of rapt beauty and tenderness.