Medtner & Rachmaninoff: Piano Works Yevgeny Sudbin

• Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951): Stimmungsbilder (Mixed Samplerates)
• 1No. 1. Prologue: Andante cantabile03:45
• Fairy Tale, Op. 51 No. 3
• 2No. 3 in A Major03:24
• Forgotten Melodies, Op. 38
• 3No. 1. Sonata reminiscenza (44kHz)13:09
• Fairy Tale, Op. 20 No. 1
• 4No. 1. Allegro con espressione (44kHz)02:37
• Fairy Tale, Op. 26 No. 1
• 5No. 1. Allegretto frescamente (44kHz)02:31
• Forgotten Melodies, second cycle, Op. 39
• 6No. 4. Canzon matinata04:01
• 7No. 5. Sonata tragica09:50
• Sergei Rachmaninow (1873-1943): Six Preludes
• 8No. 4 in D Major: Andante cantabile04:02
• 9No. 5 in G Minor: Alla marcia03:38
• 10No. 5 in G Major: Moderato02:41
• 11No. 6 in F Minor: Allegro appassionato01:21
• 12No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor: Allegro02:18
• 13No. 13 in D-Flat Major: Grave - Allegro04:40
• Total Runtime57:57

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Nachdem Sudbin von Medtner bereits die drei Klavierkonzerte und die fünf konzertanten Werke von Rachmaninoff aufgenommen hatte, ergänzt er das Repertoire nun um Solowerke der beiden miteinander befreundeten Komponisten. Sudbin bewundert insbesondere Medtner, und so bietet er eine reiche Auswahl an dessen Klavierstücken.

Er beginnt mit dem Prolog aus den »Stimmungsbildern«, dem Opus 1 des Achtzehnjährigen, und endet mit der »Sonata tragica«, geschrieben kurz vor Medtners Emigration aus Russland 1921. Mit seinen „Märchen“ hat Medtner ein eigenes Genre geschaffen, sehr bewundert von Rachmaninoff.

Der kreative Input zu diesen Erzählungen kam nicht nur aus der Volkstradition, sondern auch aus literarischen Quellen (Puschkin, Shakespeare und die Bibel).

Yevgeny Sudbin, Klavier

Yevgeny Sudbin
has been hailed by The Telegraph as ‘potentially one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century’. As BIS Records’ only exclusive artist, all of Yevgeny’s recordings have met with critical acclaim and are regularly featured as CD of the Month by BBC Music Magazine or Editor’s Choice by Gramophone. His Scriabin recording was awarded CD of the Year by The Telegraph and received the MIDEM Classical Award for Best Solo Instrument Recording at Cannes. It was described by Gramophone as ‘a disc in a million’ while the International Record Review stated that Yevgeny’s Rachmaninov recording ‘confirms him as one of the most important pianistic talents of our time’.

Yevgeny performs regularly in many of the world's finest venues and concert series, both in recital and with orchestra, including Tonhalle Zurich; Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall (International Piano Series) and Wigmore Hall (London Pianoforte Series) in London; Concertgebouw (Meesterpianisten, Amsterdam); Avery Fisher Hall (New York) and Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco). Recent engagements and tours have included orchestras such as New Zealand Symphony, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, Lucerne Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. His performance of Rachmaninov's Concerto No.1 at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall was described by The Telegraph as ‘sublime.’

Yevgeny has collaborated with some of the world’s most influential conductors, such as Neeme Järvi, Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Osmo Vänskä, Hannu Lintu, Tugan Sokhiev, Mark Wigglesworth, Andrew Litton, Dmitri Slobodeniouk and Vassily Sinaisky. His love of chamber music has led him to collaborate with many other musicians including Alexander Chaushian, Ilya Gringolts, Hilary Hahn, Julia Fischer, the Chilingirian Quartet and many others. Appearances at festivals include Aspen, Mostly Mozart, Tivoli, Nohant, La Roque d'Antheron, Menton and Verbier.

Recent and future engagements include concerts and recording projects with the Tapiola Sinfonetta and Osmo Vänskä, Netherlands Philharmonic and Ivor Bolton, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Michael Seal, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Stanislav Kochanovsky, and extensive touring in North America. He also returns to many recital stages, including the Wigmore Hall, Moscow International House of Music and Serate Musicali (Milan).

Yevgeny was born in St Petersburg in 1980 and began his musical studies at the Specialist Music School of the St Petersburg Conservatory with Lyubov Pevsner at the age of 5. He emigrated with his family to Germany in 1990 where he continued his studies at Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule (Galina Ivanzova). In 1997 Yevgeny moved to London to study at the Purcell School and subsequently the Royal Academy of Music where he completed his Bachelor and Masters degrees under Christopher Elton. He was supported by the Hattori and Pulvermacher Foundations as well as The Wall Trust, of which he is now Vice President. In 2010, he was awarded a Fellowship by Academy and is now a Visiting Professor.

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