Pianist Emanuil Ivanov, who won first prize at the 2019 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Italy, has recorded Frederic Rzewski’s sprawling 1975 masterpiece, The People United Will Never Be Defeated!. A maverick amongst composers of the recent past, Rzewski combined purposeful stylistic eclecticism and powerful, raw emotional content in this enormous cycle of variations on the Chilean song ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!. As a composer himself, Emanuil revels in the improvisation opportunity right before the final restatement of the theme. This Linn debut album is part of the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series.

Emanuil Ivanov – piano