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The 20-year-old Chinese-born pianist Wei Luo has been attending the Curtis Institute of Music since age 13, where she studies with Gary Graffman and Robert
Aside from the Shostakovich Second Piano Concerto, Denis Matsuev has recorded this music before, and quite recently. The First Piano Concerto was released on a
This is an exciting release of excellent music by one of Russia’s greatest living composers (except that the last time I checked the Shchedrins were
When Shostakovich first performed his Preludes and Fugues for piano, his younger colleague Rodion Shchedrin got the idea to compose his own set. Whereas Shostakovich’s
Marc-André Hamelin is to the piano what Heifetz was to the violin: an artist of such technical accomplishment that many writers have characterized him as
Rodion Shchedrin’s music resists easy classification. Even during the glory days (such as they were) of the Soviet Union he managed to remain very much
Here’s a recital centered upon how seven composers of different eras deal with fugal texture, featuring the Bulgarian-born, Russian-trained, Paris-based pianist Lilia Boyadjieva. Working backward,
The high-potency musical experience that is Rodion Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite is fully realized in Misha Rachevsky and the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin’s electrifying performance. With their
Virtuosity is the name of the game for this solo recital recording by Maxim Vengerov. Here, virtuosity reigns in both substance–incredibly demanding compositions that would
Well what do you know? Pletnev finally gets one right! After what probably is the single longest and most consistently disappointing string of recordings in
