The Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol. II Dina Ugorskaja

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): The Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol. II
• 1Prelude No. 1 in C Major, BWV 87002:56
• 2Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 87001:52
• 3Prelude No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 87103:27
• 4Fugue No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 87102:49
• 5Prelude No. 3 in C-Sharp Major, BWV 87202:02
• 6Fugue No. 3 in C-Sharp Major, BWV 87202:26
• 7Prelude No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 87304:15
• 8Fugue No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 87302:14
• 9Prelude No. 5 in D Major, BWV 87403:37
• 10Fugue No. 5 in D Major, BWV 87404:04
• 11Prelude No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 87501:41
• 12Fugue No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 87502:19
• 13Prelude No. 7 in E-Flat Major, BWV 87602:29
• 14Fugue No. 7 in E-Flat, BWV 87603:10
• 15Prelude No. 8 in E-Flat Minor, BWV 87705:52
• 16Fugue No. 8 in E-Flat Minor, BWV 87705:37
• 17Prelude No. 9 in E Major, BWV 87805:55
• 18Fugue No. 9 in E Major, BWV 87804:11
• 19Prelude No. 10 in E Minor, BWV 87903:26
• 20Fugue No. 10 in E Minor, BWV 87902:56
• 21Prelude No. 11 in F Major, BWV 88004:14
• 22Fugue No. 11 in F Major, BWV 88001:47
• 23Prelude No. 12 in F Minor, BWV 88105:15
• 24Fugue No. 12 in F Minor, BWV 88102:05
• 25Prelude No. 13 in F-Sharp Major, BWV 88202:50
• 26Fugue No. 13 in F-Sharp Major, BWV 88202:48
• 27Prelude No. 14 in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 88303:39
• 28Fugue No. 14 in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 88305:34
• 29Prelude No. 15 in G Major, BWV 88402:35
• 30Fugue No. 15 in G Major, BWV 88401:46
• 31Prelude No. 16 in G Minor, BWV 88503:06
• 32Fugue No. 16 in G Minor, BWV 88503:18
• 33Prelude No. 17 in A-Flat Major, BWV 88603:27
• 34Fugue No. 17 in A-Flat Major, BWV 88603:52
• 35Prelude No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor, BWV 88705:20
• 36Fugue No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor, BWV 88706:47
• 37Prelude No. 19 in A Major, BWV 88802:23
• 38Fugue No. 19 in A Major, BWV 88801:28
• 39Prelude No. 20 in A Minor, BWV 88906:21
• 40Fugue No. 20 in A Minor, BWV 88902:00
• 41Prelude No. 21 in B-Flat Major, BWV 89008:55
• 42Fugue No. 21 in B-FlatMajor, BWV 89003:29
• 43Prelude No. 22 in B-Flat Minor, BWV 89104:23
• 44Fugue No. 22 in B-Flat Minor, BWV 89105:12
• 45Prelude No. 23 in B Major, BWV 89202:06
• 46Fugue No. 23 in B Major, BWV 89205:28
• 47Prelude No. 24 in B Minor, BWV 89302:19
• 48Fugue No. 24 in B Minor, BWV 89302:59
• Total Runtime02:52:44

Info for The Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol. II

Part II of the complete Cycle played on a modern Steinway with a great competence. When she was seven years old, Dina Ugorskaja gave her first public performance in the Philharmonic Hall of her home town of Leningrad (today renamed Saint Petersburg). Born in 1973, she received her first musical instruction from her father, Anatol Ugorski, and from Maria Mekler. She also took voice lessons specialising in early music.

Dina Ugorskaja,piano

Dina Ugorskaja
When she was seven years old, Dina Ugorskaja gave her first public performance in the Philharmonic Hall of her home town of Leningrad (today renamed Saint Petersburg). Born in 1973, she received her first musical instruction from her father, Anatol Ugorski, and from Maria Mekler. She also took voice lessons specialising in early music. From 1980 to 1990 she studied piano and composition at the special music school for gifted children at Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. In the meantime, she continued making public appearances in solo recitals, in chamber music and in piano concertos with orchestra. Her first string quartet, composed when she was fifteen, was premiered in the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Hall. The Ugorski family left Russia in 1990. Dina Ugorskaja pursued her studies at Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin with Prof. Galina Iwanzowa before going on to the Musikhochschule in Detmold, where she studied under Prof. Nerine Barrett and obtained her solo diploma with honours in 2001. She also received important counsel from musicians such as Ruvim Ostrovski, Edith Picht-Axenfeld, Andras Schiff and Hans-Dietrich Klaus.

From 2002 to 2007, Ugorskaja taught at the Musikhochschule in Detmold. She then relocated to Munich, where she lives now.

Dina Ugorskaja made appearances at the festivals of Schwetzingen, Hitzacker, Dijon, Rottweiler, Kassel, the Feldkirch Schubertiad and others. She has made guest appearances in Bayreuth, Berlin, Dortmund, Bielefeld, Cologne Philharmonie, Leipzig Gewandhaus and Stuttgart Liederhalle, performing solo piano concertos with the following orchestras: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (Leipzig), the South West Chamber Orchestra (Pforzheim), the North West German Philharmonic (Herford), the Wurttemberg Philharmonic (Reutlingen), the Lemberg Philharmonia Orchestra (Ukraine), the Vladimir Philharmonic Governor's Symphony Orchestra (Russia) and St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra. She has worked together with conductors of the likes of Ravil Martynov, Vladimir Jurowski, Vladislav Czarnecki, Norichika Limori and Peter Gülke. Chamber music partners have included Hans-Dietrich Klaus (clarinet), Sergio Azzolini (bassoon), Natalia Prishepenko (violin), Anna Lewis (viola), Xenia Jankovic (cello), the Auryn Quartet and Ugorskaja's own father, Anatol Ugorski (piano).

Dina Ugorskaja has made several CD releases. The earlier ones feature works by Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Chopin and Shostakovich, including a joint recording of the Bach and Mozart two-piano concertos with her father Anatol Ugorski. Her recording of the late works of Robert Schumann has been nominated for the 2011 International Classical Music Awards. The most recent releases feature six Beethoven's late piano sonatas; the last Beethoven-CD was nominated for the 2013 German Record Critic's Award.

German classical music magazine Fono Forum recently remarked: 'Dina Ugorskaja's interpretations are particularly credible, thanks to their independence and originality. [...] She applies her own creative fantasy to the music as its unfolds, and she is able to make the rhythm 'breathe' without ever disrespecting what is written in the score.' (Translated by Stanley Hanks)

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