Konstantinos Destaunis- Ravel: Complete Piano Works (PREORDER)

Konstantinos Destounis has made a speciality of Ravel's piano works, playing them in concert on many occasions including a two-night survey of the whole solo-piano output, at the conservatoire in Athens last November. He made this recording around the same time, and captures the sense of music on the wing, still wet on the page from the pen of it's fastidious creator. Born in Athens in 1991, Destounis studied in Thessaloniki and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg before taking his Masters at the Royal College of Music in London. He competed with distinction in many European piano competitions, winning First Prize at the 2015 Murcia International Piano Competition and second prize at the Liszt Society Piano Competition held in London that year. On this album, his first major recording, he reveals himself to be a compelling interpreter of music which still sets a benchmark among pianists for technical finesse and musicianship. For Ravel, as for Beethoven and Stravinsky, the craft of compos