A concert broadcast on Radio Classique on Sunday 11th January 2026 "Recorded 17-18 December 2025" featuring:

RAVEL: Semiramis: Prélude et Danse - Scène I Air de Manassès.
SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto No. 1.
RAVEL: Daphnis et Chloé, Ballet.

performed by: Léo Vermot-Desroches, tenor, Julia Hagen, cello, the Orchestre de Paris Choir and the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Alain Altinoglu

Did anyone recorded it? I planned to but totally forgot about it until days after the broadcast…

A humdinger of a review of the release of my cycle THE LORD OF THE RINGS, released last autumn as detailed in my previous post, from MusicWeb International:
https://musicwebinternational.com/2026/01/corfield-godfrey-musical-chapters-from-the-lord-of-the-rings/

Alexander Kartsev's piano music typically follows the traditions of the Russian Romantic school, influenced by his teachers Sergei Taneyev and Reinhold Glière. While his solo piano output is not as extensive as his chamber works, several specific pieces are notable for students and performers of Russian music.
Solo Piano Works
Deux pièces (Two Pieces), Op. 1: This early set, published in 1913, consists of an Arabesque in E♭ major and an Etude in E minor. These are his most accessible scores today.
Miscellaneous Pieces: Historical catalogs indicate he composed a significant number of shorter piano pieces and transcriptions throughout his career in Moscow.
Collaborative Piano Works
Kartsev frequently used the piano in chamber settings and as an accompaniment for solo instruments:
Trumpet and Piano: He wrote two popular pedagogical pieces, Nocturne and Arietta, which are still included in collections of Russian trumpet music.
Vocal Works: He composed numerous songs and romances for voice and piano, often performed in Soviet music circles.
Style and Influence
As a student of Paul Juon in Berlin, Kartsev's piano writing often features sophisticated textures and harmonic depth characteristic of late 19th-century European and Russian romanticism. His work is often grouped with other 20th-century Russian composers who maintained a traditional, lyrical style during the Soviet era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzX-7QYHK2c


Samuil Yevgenyevich Feinberg (26 May 1890, Odessa – 22 October 1962, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist.

Raised in Moscow, he entered the Moscow Conservatory and studied under Alexander Goldenweiser He also studied composition privately under Nikolai Zhilyayev. He graduated from the Conservatory in 1911, after which he embarked upon a career as a solo pianist whilst composing on the side. Memorably, he was the first pianist to perform the complete The Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach in concert in the USSR. However, he was soon sent to fight in the First World War for Russia until he abruptly became ill and was discharged. In 1922 he joined the faculty at the Conservatory, relaunching his pianistic career. By 1930, due to the political unrest in Stalin Russia, Feinberg was forbidden to leave the country, in part due to the fact that he was Jewish, except for two trips, to Vienna in 1936 and to Brussels in 1938. For this reason he is generally not well known outside of Russia. Feinberg was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1946.

Feinberg never married, but lived with his brother, a painter.

He is most remembered today for his complete recording of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier and many transcriptions. He also composed 3 Piano Concertos, a dozen piano sonatas as well as fantasias and other works for the instrument. Pianist Tatiana Nikolaeva said that each of his sonatas was a 'poem of life.' Feinberg has been called "A musical heir to Scriabin," who heard the young pianist play his fourth sonata and praised it highly.

(Wikipedia)