The Pianism on Instagram: "Nikolai Kapustin’s gorgeous Concert Etude No. 2 "Reverie" played in 2004 by Nobuyuki Tsujii who was just 15 years old at the time! The blind virtuosi pianist from Japan would become co-winner of the Cliburn Competition 5 years later. His microphthalmia congenital disorder means he has to learn piano pieces either by Braille (when the scores exist that way) or more frequently by ear: he has a team preparing works in small sections, one hand at a time, with the composer’

Divine Art Recordings Group on Instagram: "Ophelia Gordon takes you #BetweenTheLines with the first single from her debut album featuring the music by Nikolai Kapustin! ▶️ Listen now to the Finale from Concert Etudes, Op. 40 ➡️ listn.fm/betweenthelines “My journey with Kapustin has opened up a wider question: what even is ‘jazz’? What’s ‘classical’? I don’t believe in boxing music into neat categories. As Duke Ellington said: ‘If it sounds good, it is good.’ And that’s exactly what Kapustin is t