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ID: GD109 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Piano The title of the present album PAGANINIANA comes from Milstein's Paganiniana and hints to the content of the programme: virtuoso violin pieces in the style of Paganini, perfectly performed and recorded by the two virtuoso players.
"Mario HOSSEN with magnificent creativity interprets the famous violin concert of Paganini with superb sound, clear tone and vigor" - this is part of the review in the Austrian "Oberosterrichiche Nachrichten", where the violin player is called "a Paganini reincarnation".
Mario Hossen finished the Plovdiv High School of Music and then furthered his studies in the Vienna Music Academy. The performer graduated with award of the Austrian Ministry of Culture for outstanding artistic achievement. He then began his brilliant concert appearances in Europe, America and Asia. The violinist is holder of many awards at international competitions and festivals in Europe. He often has concert performances with the pianist Ludmil PETKOV (a graduate of the Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music in Sofia, who afterwards perfected his piano mastership with Prof. Rudolf Kehrer in Weimar, Germany). Both artists already have their first CD released together, which has won recognition among wide cultural circles in Europe .
The title of the present album PAGANINIANA comes from Milstein's Paganiniana and hints to the content of the programme: virtuoso violin pieces in the style of Paganini, perfectly performed and recorded by the two virtuoso players. |
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ID: GD111 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Piano Vesselin Stanev (b. 1964) is a pianist who attracts the attention of the audience with his exceptional dedication to music and variety of performance of each work. Unlike many other musicians, he is equally expert in playing pre-classical and romantic pieces. He always leaves a mark of his individuality when interpreting the different compositions he plays. Familiar piano pieces played by Vesselin Stanev have a totally different sounding and make an impression of something new. An example of this is his interpretation of Chopin's two ballads, the Scherzo, and Polonaise included in this release. The pianist's incredible technique is the key, which lets him into the sphere of great music. It is also a prerequisite for his complete freedom of expression and imagination. Having no technical problems with the instrument, he achieves a higher level of intellectual apprehension of the music material and this results in the creation of compositions, characterized by real co-authorship between composer and performer. |
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ID: GD112 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Piano The CD of the famous Bulgarian pianist and composer Emile Naoumoff, includes eight mazurkas, written by Chopin throughout the years, some of which are much preferred by the performers for the specific melodic and metro-rhythmical character of the music. To them add preludes, waltzes, and other popular and attractive for the listener works by the great Polish composer, patriot, dreamer, rebel, romantic and innovator. The moods are melancholic and nostalgic, at times sad, even gloomy, at times varied with outbursts of joy and hope. Emile Naoumoff interprets each of the miniatures in a manner of his own, imbuing them with a feeling, with tenderness and intimacy. His performance impresses with a masterful switching between the tempos, fine nuancing and elegance. The recording highlights Naoumoff as an excellent interpreter of Chopin's music, as a master of expressiveness who has achieved a unity between the author's text and his own reading. Thus the pieces sound in a good style and acquire a character different |
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ID: GD135 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Piano Pianist Ludmil Angelov offers very interesting and original interpretations of some of Chopin's little known early works. As a performer who constantly looks for new opportunities for his artistic realisation, Ludmil Angelov demonstrates in this recital release his abilities as pianist of a style of his own - with original conceptions and analyses of each of the performed works, each interpreted in an individual manner, fascinating with the softness and flexibility of tone, melody and harmony. His virtuosity, brilliance, warmth and lyricism which impress the listener, combine with a multi-coloured palette of sound nuances. All this is in confirmation of the successful career of the pianist, first-prize winner of the World Piano Masters International Competition of Monte Carlo, 1997, who has toured extensively on the world's major stages. The present release received the GRAND PRIX DU DISQUE FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN award in Warszaw, 2000. |
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ID: GD154 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Piano A successful pianist, possessing a brilliant technique enabling him to interpret freely music varied in style and expressiveness from pre-classical to modern times, Tomislav Baynov offers in this CD some of the gems of world piano music. Tomislav Baynov is holder of many Bulgarian and international awards, professor in piano and a concertizing pianist, trained in Germany. He has spent almost two decades in this country where he is also famous as a chamber-music performer who has appeared with many singers and instrumentalists, founder of the Baynov Piano Ensemble, to which many compositions have been dedicated. |
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ID: GD177 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Piano The young pianist Nadejda Vlaeva graduated from the Pancho Vladigerov Sofia Academy of Music. After that she continued her musical education in the Netherlands and the USA . At present she lives in New York and performs in concerts throughout Europe and North America with recital programmes. She is also a soloist of leading European and American orchestras. Musical critics praise her talent highly. Arnold Steinhardt, leader of the Guarneri String Quartet, describes her as "one of those people of extraordinary ability whom we hope for but rarely see". Among Vlaeva's major awards are those at the Liszt competition in Lucca , Italy ; the Liszt Competition in Budapest , Hungary ; the Yamaha Award for the best interpretation of Brahms, in Weimar , Germany , etc. Along with her concert-giving activity, she has also recorded on radio and CD. Her second CD, piano music of Liszt, released in 2001 on the Musicians Showcase label, has been awarded the 2002 International Grand Prix "Liszt" du Disque. |
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ID: GD219 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Piano Recorded in Bulgaria Concert Hall, Sofia, January 2000
The second CD of the pianist Vesselin Stanev presents him as an excellent interpreter of music by Chopin, Ravel and Rachmaninov. Vesselin Stanev has chosen works of the highest pianistic class and proves again his exceptional talent. He has been student of Dmitriy Bachkirov, a celebrated representatives of the Russian keyboard school, and later continued perfecting his skills with the well-known Alexis Weissenberg. Stanev is holder of several prestigious prizes in international competitions. He enjoys an active concert-giving career in France, where he has been living for years, in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Moscow and Bulgaria. Musical critics rank him with the greatest pianists of the 20th century and continuously emphasize on his power, insight and temperament of performance. The performer's originality of ideas, form-construction and exceptional musicality are the characteristics that create the strongest impression in his interpretations. In addition, he possesses a well-mastered and appropriately used virtuosity, organically linked with the whole concept about the composition he perfroms. The magnificence of Chopin's 24 Preludes and Rachmaninov's Sonata No. 2 prove all the pianist's gifts. On the other hand, the richness of nuances and images, revealed with impressionistic finesse and fantasy in Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit, show him as a great master of the sound and a pianist who is capable of suggesting emotions, ideas, psychological states and romantic elеgance, and who controls in details all the subtleties of his instrument. |
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ID: GD221 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Violin There are very few works for violin and guitar and part of them, unfortunately, have already been forgotten. That is why the musicians who are attracted by the interesting combination of the two stringed instruments, do not have another choice but to perform mostly transcriptions of works for violin and piano. This is the approach of the violinist Jochen Brusch and the guitarist Finn Svit. |
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ID: GD222 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Guitar After the success of the first release, "Treasures for Violin and Guitar" (GD 221), Finn Svit (Denmark) and Jochen Brusch (guitar) recorded the present second programme with instrumental miniatures, united in the themes "Animals in Music" and "From Foreign Countries and Peoples". The works included in the CD cover different periods in the development of music: from the 18th to the 20th c. Both musicians have been working together with the common aim of teaching and popularizing music. They have given numerous lectures, seminars, master classes, concerts, and performed in radio and TV programmes. Their experience has been of great value to younger musicians and they have succeeded in attracting many admirers to the art of music. |
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ID: GD283 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Violin Bulgaria Concert Hall - Sofia, live recording
This is another CD of the series The Concertmasters, performed by famous Bulgarian musicians - concertmasters of leading orchestras. The recordings have been made at concerts, organised by Classic FM Radio. Music lovers already have the first CD of this series of the violinist Svetlin Roussev (GD 192). The present release features a live performance of another world-famous violin player - Mila Georgieva. Born into a family of musicians, Mila Georgieva began playing the violin at the age of four. In her pre-teen years she gained international fame by winning important prizes in competitions in Italy, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. Mila Georgieva studied with Dorothy De Lay and Cho-Liang Lin at the Juilliard School in New York and with Yfrah Neaman at the Guildhall School in London. As soloist she has performed with renowned orchestras and conductors. She participates at summer festivals and gives solo concerts throughout the world, and since 2003-2004, Mila Georgieva has been the concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra of Radio Stuttgart. The conductor Martin Panteleev was also born in Sofia and he also began his music education by studying the violin with Angelina Atanassova. In 1994 he completed masterclass with Prof. Yfrah Neaman in Mainz, Germany. In 1995 he entered the Pancho Vladigerov State Music Academy in Sofia and in 1997 he completed a masterclass in violin with Prof. Zachar Bron in Hamburg, Germany. In 1998 was appointed concertmaster and later assistant conductor of the Philharmonic of the Nations. He is equally successful both as a violinist and a conductor and gives concerts throughout Europe, Asia and the USA. Classic FM Radio Orchestra was founded in 2002. Since then it has attracted wide interest from concertgoers and critics. It was successful at a number of venues like the March Music Days International Festival in Rousse, the European Music Festival in Sofia, Varna Summer, at concerts in Bulgaria and abroad. In 2003 the orchestra received the most prestigious music award in Bulgaria - the Crystal Lyre, as well as the 2003 Musician of the Year award. |
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