GD 184 EMILE NAOUMOFF piano - Live in Paris
Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet, Seasons
Scriabin - Etudes Op.2 No 1, Op.8 No 11
Rachmaninov - Preludes Op.3 No 2, Op.32 No 12,
Vocalise Op.34 No 14, Etudes-Tableaux, Op.39 No. 4, Polichinelle Op.3 No 4
Stravinsky - Tango
Issued: 1995
Style: Classical Music
Company: Gega New, GD184
Pianist and composer, Emile NAUMOFF started his concert career at an early age. The child-prodigy demonstrated his great talent and maturity not only as a performer but also with his very first attempts in composing, marked by originality and an inborn sense for form and development of the thematic material (e.g. "The Pictures of My Grandfather"). His musical formation took place in Paris, where he began his studies at the beginning of the 1970s. Mr. Naumoff graduated from the Paris Conservatoire as pupil of Nadia Boulanger, one of the greatest ladies in world music. Later his performing and creative careers developed in parallel. This CD includes Mr. Naumoff's piano transcription of Tchaikovsky's overture-fantasy Romeo and Juliet. The complete programme - recorded live at a concert in Paris - presents the pianist as a master of sound-production, a musician of keen sensitivity and brilliant technique in outlining the essential features of the styles of the three composers. The programme ends with Stravinsky's Tango, played with exquisite expression.
Contents:
Tchaikovsky
• Romeo and Juliet
Seasons
• Song of the Lark (March)
• Snow Drop (April)
• Barcarolle (June)
• The Autumn Song (October)
Scriabin
• Etude in C sharp minor op.2 No.1
• Etude in B flat minor op.8 No.11
Rachmaninov
• Prelude in C sharp minor op.3 No.2
• Prelude in G sharp minor op.32 No.12
• Vocalise op.34 No.14
• Etudes - Tableaux op.39 No.4
• Polichinelle op.3 No.4
Stravinsky (bis)
• Tango
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