Elmas: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1 - Ballades / Barcarolles / Nocturnes (Mikael Ayrapetyan)

Armenian pianist and composer Stephan Elmas was a child prodigy who met Franz Liszt and became closely acquainted with Rubinstein and Massenet. Elmas’s life was darkened by illness and the tragedy of his homeland, but his music reflects the ease and facility of his technique, harking back to the Romanticism of Chopin, Liszt and Schumann, rather than the challenging times in which he lived, and with a quality of craftsmanship that gives his music a magnetic attractiveness. Mikael Ayrapetyan continues his acclaimed exploration of rediscovered Armenian piano repertoire with the first in this series of Elmas’s complete works for piano.

Elmas, Stephan

 Ballade No. 1 in E-Flat Major

 Ballade No. 2 in B Major

 Ballade in G Major

 Romance for Piano in E-Flat Major

 Barcarolle No. 1 in E-Flat Minor

 Barcarolle No. 2 in C Minor

 Nocturne No. 1 in B Major

 Nocturne No. 2 in E Major

 Nocturne No. 3 in G-Sharp Minor

 Nocturne No. 4 in D Major

 Nocturne No. 5 in G-Flat Major

 Nocturne No. 6 in A-Flat Major

 Nocturne No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor

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