Stanchinsky: Piano Works

I believe that Stanchinsky’s time will come, the time of this mysterious man’s music, which unites the childish, the naive, a great surge of tragic emotion, a fascination with folk art and folk life, the edginess and sophistication of the russian Silver Age, the opposites of simplicity and subtleness. As for his musical idiom, his search for the truth (I have not yet found myself”) led him to counterpoint, one of the most sublime and purest forms of musical art: a ‘Russian Bach’…” (Ekaterina Derzhavina)