Hello all, I'm rather new here. As I said in my initial post, I'm very interested in obscure romanticism. One of my personal favourites in this area is Liapunov - sadly, his name does not seem widely known, like many late romantic Russian composers. Composers such as him, Medtner, Bortkiewicz and others seem to have fallen into a void between Tchaikowsky and Rachmaninov out of which only Scriabin has escaped. I think this is very unfortunate on account of the large amount of quality music which consequently escapes public attention.

Nowadays if Liapunov is known for anything, it is probably for his 12 Transcendental Etudes, written in homage to Liszt's set (he also wrote plenty other good music which is almost completely forgotten). The Liapunov etudes present a fair range of pianistic problems; no.10, Lesginka, is very similar to Islamey, and no.11, from which I take my forum name, is a major key reworking of Feux Follets.

The etude I've posted here is no.5; it is perhaps reminiscent of Ricordanza from the Liszt set, albeit perhaps with lusher, late romantic harmonies. This is from a student recital concert at the end of a summer school/masterclass course. It's certainly not perfect, but as I said, I'm very fond of this composer's music, and I'd like to share it.

Video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=e04N5odqDHc
The sound quality should be respectable, as I replaced the camcorder audio stream with the audio from my digital recorder. Alternatively, the audio file is posted at the start of this thread: http://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,31182.0.html