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2019-02-28 00:32:21
Pianist David Fray began to study music when he was 4 years old. In 1995 the Conservatory of Tarbes, his native city, awarded him gold medals in piano, music theory, and chamber music. In that same year he won the Concours des jeunes talents d’Aix en Provence (Young Talents of Aix en Provence Competition), which gave him the opportunity to perform the Grieg Concerto with the Manchester Sinfonia conducted by Michael Brandt. His application to study piano with Jacques Rouvier at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris was unanimously accepted. He graduated with top honors for his diploma
2018-02-25 22:00:00
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[…] Burgos in London (1990)11/07/17 Strauss #3 +1CD Oboe, Violin & Duet Concertos by Vladimir Ashkenazy in Berlin (1991)11/07/17 Strauss #2 +1CD Eine Alpensinfonie by Vladimir Ashkenazy in Prague (1999)10/30/17 Within a mile of Edinbugh - Traditional Scottish Songs & Variations New links added 10/30/17 Alte Wiener Tänze New links added10/21/17 Summer Nights #2 +1CD Nimrod Borenstein's Chamber Music Premières (2000)10/14/17 Prokofiev #2 +1DDL Sonata No. 8 (+ Rachmaninov Preludes Op. 23) by Polina Osetinskaya (2000)10/13/17 Debussy #5 +1CD Préludes by Jacques Rouvier (1983)10/13/17 Debussy #5 +1CD Préludes Book 1 (& Ravel's Miroirs) by Peter Donohoe (1998)10/12/17 Mahler 2 + 1LP set with Wyn Morris's 1974 recording in London10/12/17 Rare Grooves #2 +1LP Wagner's Liebesmahl der Apostel & Bruckner's Helgoland by Wyn Morris (1978)10/05/17 Czech 17th & 18th Century Music: new rips and links10/03/17 Rachmaninov #1 +1CD Songs (Vol. 1 of Chandos Shelley's complete cycle) (1995)10/03/17 Summer Nights #1 +1CD Behzad Ranjbaran's Persian Trilogy by JoAnn Falletta in London (2003)09/18/17 Debussy #6 +1CD […]
2017-08-25 23:00:00
[…] rip by Cunctator) 11/29/16 Summer Nights #2 +1CD Korngold's Piano Music by Ingrid Jacoby (1998) 11/29/16 Wintery Romantics +1CD Grieg & Schumann, Piano Concertos by Ingrid Jacoby in London (2005) 11/21/16 Poulenc +1CD Motets, 7 Chansons, Mass, Figure humaine by the Grex Vocalis choral ensemble (1999) 11/18/16 Musique Française #1 +1 CD Ravel Tombeau, Fauré Masques & Pavane by the Orpheus Chamber Orch. (1995) 11/18/16 Musique Française #3 +1CD set Ravel's piano music by Jacques Rouvier (1974) 11/15/16 Prokofiev #1 +1CD Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 with Gary Graffman & George Szell in Cleveland (1966) 11/15/16 In the Name of Music +1CD Orff's Carmina Burana by Richard Hickox in London (1987) 11/14/16 American Classics +1CD Ives & Creston's Symphonies no. 2 by Neeme Neeme Järvi in Detroit (1995) 11/13/16 Shostakovich #2 +1CD Suites from 'The Gadfly' and 'Pirogov' film scores by José Serebrier (1987) 11/13/16 Shostakovich #1 +1CD Semyon Bychkov's […]
2016-02-24 13:00:50
[…] following the example of his parents, who were singers, and later shifted his emphasis to conducting while a student at the Glinka Chapel School and the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Though he had played the piano from the age of eight, he did not devote himself to serious study of the instrument until 1987. His formal piano training took place at the Moscow Conservatory with Galina Eguiazarova. Volodos also studied at the Paris Conservatory with Jacques Rouvier. In Madrid, he studied at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía with Dimitri Bashkirov. Despite the relative brevity of his formal studies, Volodos has been naturally and rapidly propelled into the elite pantheon of the world’s most important pianists. Thomas Frost, the producer of many of Horowitz’s recordings, and producer of Volodos’ recordings for Sony Classical, has said that Volodos “has everything: imagination, colour, passion and a phenomenal technique to carry out his […]
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