Nikolai Medtner - Sergei Rachmaninov

Alla Reminiscenza

Ivan Moshchuk

Label: Evil Penguin
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917727029

Catalog number: EPRC 0083
Releasedate: 03-04-26

- Debut album by Russian-American pianist Ivan Moshchuk.
- This dual portrait reframes early-20th-century Russian piano music as a dialogue of aesthetics, rather than the usual contrast in styles.
- Both works are linked through a shared tonal axis (A major / A minor), creating a symmetry between the chosen works of the two composers.
- Recorded in Dolby Atmos.

For his solo recording debut, Ivan Moshchuk explores the bond between Medtner and Rachmaninoff. Their distinct piano cycles—Forgotten Melodies and Études-Tableaux—were conceived on the threshold of a violent epoch. Grounded in noble sensibilities, the sets reveal a portal to the idea of the Vergessene Weisen: the ideals of a veiled world. Here, the music becomes a lens for memory as a path that endures despite the relentless march of time.