Classics Today: outstanding; Music Web International: outstanding. This recording brings together several facets of Alexander Tcherepnin’s artistic voice, from neo-classical clarity to ritual drama and poetic fantasy. The Second Piano Concerto reveals a composer drawn to lucid construction and motoric energy, its themes circulating freely through the orchestra with a sense of play and refinement, tempered by moments of dreamlike introspection. In the Fourth Piano Concerto, subtitled Fantaisie, Tcherepnin turns toward the Far East, shaping a sequence of programmatic scenes that blend pentatonic colour, brilliant pianism, and sharply etched percussion into a narrative of myth, sacrifice, and travel. The purely orchestral Magna mater unfolds as a powerful sound ritual, moving from chamber-like transparency to an ecstatic percussion-driven climax, while the later Symphonic Prayer adopts a more inward tone, fusing liturgical solemnity with the composer’s characteristic fascination for rhythm and scale. Across these works, Tcherepnin’s music emerges as both disciplined and imaginative, uniting formal clarity with a strikingly personal sense of colour, movement, and spiritual intent.