Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940) was Igor Stravinsky’s piano teacher, having herself been a student of Anton Rubinstein. To this day, however, her compositions remain in the shadow of the male Russian masters, a fate shared by many other women of this era. Although her output is nowhere near as comprehensive as that of her contemporaries, what she did produce demonstrates incredible talent, mature skill and a deeply Romantic Russian idiom so typical of its time. This album marks the world premiere recording of her Piano Concerto in A minor and Symphony in B minor, her largest-scale works. Kashperova premiered the concerto in Moscow in 1901 and played it again in St. Petersburg that year. The symphony was performed in both cities in 1905, and the works were performed together by the Berlin Philharmonic at the Berliner Singakademie in 1907, with Kashperova as the piano soloist.