REVIEWS
'Alexander Kashpurin, un great talent unveiled'
An exellent review by Christophe Huss, music critic of LEDEVOIR, after Alexander his performance of the Etudes Tableaux of Rachmaninov in the Bourgie hall in Montreal, April 2024.
Christophe is writing among other things the following
The great Russian tradition, combining technique, intelligence, panache, flamboyance and sheer brilliance. And now, with all the praise, pretensions and assertions ............., we had him live in front of us, under the fingers of Alexander Kashpurin. The solid side, framed, as if cast in bronze, with infinite musical intelligence, a refined touch, shaded whenever necessary, daring flights of fancy, real panache, but without destroying the keyboard (in the manner of Matsuev): Kashpurin has it all.Kashpurin uses it to make the piano a larger-than-life instrument.
From the point of view of the way the instrument sounds and resonates, this concert was one of the most intoxicating of the season.'
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Noblesse et Poésie
Review by Alain Cochard of Concertclassics.com after Alexander his performance during the Lille Piano Festival, June 2025.
"Alexander opens the concert with the complete cycle Études-tableaux opus 39 by Sergei Rachmaninov.
His entrance onto the stage is both calm and determined, in complete harmony with what we hear next.
From the first notes of the opening piece, a strongly internalized agitato, it is clear that the performer has perfectly understood the challenge of a series of character studies. His technique is magnificent, never fragmented and without any frills. The music therefore comes into its own, carried by a rich but never fat sound, and a clear playing that excels in Rachmaninov's complex musical text.
Nine Études-tableaux, nine landscapes of the soul that the pianist captures with nobility and poetry – equally convincing in the most intimate and the most lively pieces – with a keen sense of the fantastic character that is so strongly present in this opus (the seventh is simply magnificent!).
As an encore, he plays the Pas de Deux from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, in the arrangement by Mihail Pletnev: a performance full of fluidity and suppleness, which proves that Kashpurin, despite the pianistic translation, never loses sight of the choreographic origins of the piece.
Great class.”