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Russian musician (1875-1961)
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2021-05-03 12:47:09
Tatiana Nikolayeva, 2021
[…] American pianist and composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk (b. May 8th of 1829) – all have their anniversaries this week. The person we would like to remember today is Tatiana Nikolayeva, a Soviet pianist not well known in the West. She was born on May 5th of 1924 in Bezhitsa, a small town near the city of Bryansk. She started playing piano at the age of three, then moved to Moscow where she studied with Alexander Goldenweiser. Very poor, she earned a bit of money working as an accompanist. She graduated the Moscow Conservatory in 1947 majoring in piano and three years later received a diploma in composition, both cum laude. In 1950 Nikolayeva won a Bach International Competition in Leipzig. Dmitry Shostakovich was the Chairman of the jury and they became good friends. It was Nikolayeva who two years later premiered Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues. Nikolayeva’s repertoire was enormous: […]
2020-12-02 08:34:17
A record dedicated to those who believe in ‘ the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination.’
[…] minor. Her Janacek takes us still further In the Mists, into music that is unnerving in its mood-swings and volatility. Finally, there is Medtner and Liadov and a record dedicated to her father, and to Nelly Akopian-Tamarina’s ‘remembrance of things past’ but ever present. Few more thought- and heart-provoking records exist. Reviewed by Bryce Morrison Biographical note: Nelly Akopian-Tamarina studied at the Moscow Conservatoire, she was one of the last pupils of the legendary Alexander Goldenweiser (1876-1961) (who had studied with Alexander Siloti, Pavel Pabst, Mikhail Ippolitov Ivanov, Anton Arensky and Sergey Taneyev), and the first of Dmitri Bashkirov. In 1963 she won the Gold Medal at the Zwickau Schumann International Competition. Her early Soviet recordings for Melodiya – including Chopin’s Preludes Op 28 and the Schumann Piano Concerto with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra – are collectors’ items. Subsequently effaced from public life, obstructed in the Soviet Union from giving […]
2019-02-25 14:23:54
Chopin 2019
[…] week of the year, where established by the International Music Foundation in honor of that great British pianist. Here’s Myra Hess playing The Grande valse brillante in E-flat major, Op. 18. Lazar Berman was born on February 26th of 1930 into a Jewish family in Leningrad. A child prodigy, he started playing piano at the age of two, and at four took part in a Leningrad “young talents” competition. Later, he studied with Alexander Goldenweiser at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1956 Berman won the Queen Elizabeth competition in Brussels and the Franz Liszt competition in Budapest. Berman was persecuted by the Soviet musical authorities more than almost any artist: from 1959 till 1971 he was prohibited from playing outside of the country because he married a French girl (the marriage was very brief), and then, in 1980, he was banned again, when a “wrong” book was found in his […]
2018-05-28 05:53:12
Six composer and two pianists
[…] in love with Sir Edward’s music as the British public seems to be. Still, without a doubt Jacqueline du Pré’s performance of Elgar’s Cello concerto is a masterpiece, both in terms of music itself and the interpretation. We’ll write more about it on Elgar’s next birthday. And now to two pianists. Grigory Ginzburg, a Russian-Soviet-Jewish pianist, was born in Nizhny Novgorod on May 29th of 1904. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Alexander Goldenweiser. In 1927 he participated in the First Chopin Piano Competition and received the 4th prize (Lev Oborin was the winner). Ginzburg taught at the Conservatory from the age of 25. His repertory was very 19-century, with many transcriptions and salon pieces, but his musicianship was impeccable. Many consider Ginsburg the last pianist in Liszt’s tradition. Here’s Grigory Ginzburg playing Chopin's Berceuse in a live 1959 recording. Considered one of the finest pianists of his […]
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