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TCHAIKOVSKY, B.: Piano and Chamber Works (Solovieva, Korostelyov, Dichenko)
The piano and chamber works on this recording span 45 years of Boris Tchaikovsky’s career, ranging from the delightful pieces composed by the precocious ten year old to the Etude in E major of 1980.They include the Sonata for Two Pianos with its mosaic approach to composition and its expressive exploration of the inner soul, and the beautifully crafted Violin Sonata of 1959. The solo piano miniatures reveal a spare texture that highlights the instrument’s elemental beauty.
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Mikael Ayrapetyan is a pianist, composer, producer and teacher, as well as a researcher and public figure. After his Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall debut, he went on to present works by 24 Armenian composers, and has been a leading figure in popularising Armenian classical music worldwide with his Secrets of Armenia musical project, which he began during his studies at the Moscow Conservatory.
Born in 1984 in Yerevan, Armenia, he studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, and continues to uphold the performing traditions of the Russian piano school, of which Konstantin Igumnov, Samuel Feinberg and Lev Oborin are luminaries. This period was the start of his extensive concert activity in which he performs works by Tigranian, Chukhadjian, Komitas, Melikian, Spendiarian, Barkhudarian, Stepanian, Khachaturian, Babajanian, Arutyunian, Abrahamian, Bagdasarian, Avetisian, Mirzoyan, Amirkhanian and many other Armenian composers, which eventually led him to produce his own concerts.
After completing his studies at the Moscow Conservatory, Ayrapetyan performed widely in many countries, receiving an enthusiastic response from critics and audiences alike. His repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the contemporary and includes rarely performed works by Armenian composers. He was awarded the State Prize of the Republic of Armenia for his outstanding contribution to the development and popularisation of Armenian classical music.
His recording of Eduard Bagdasarian’s piano and violin music on Grand Piano (GP664) earned a five-star rating from International Piano, and his album of Haro Stepanian’s 24 Preludes (GP760) was praised as a ‘discovery’ by both Classica and Piano News.
Vladimir Sergeev started to learn the violin at the age of six, and when he was 17, he was awarded First Prize in a regional competition for young violinists, and in 2000 entered the Academic Music College of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory as a student of People’s Artist of Georgia M.L. Yashvili, with whom he also studied with at the Moscow Conservatory.
Sergeev focuses on the popularisation of Armenian classical music worldwide. Together with Mikael Ayrapetyan he has performed in the most prestigious halls in Russia, and has recorded Armenian classical repertoire. Sergeev has performed across Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Honoured Art Worker of the Armenian SSR Eduard Bagdasarian graduated from the Yerevan State Conservatory where he majored in both piano and composition. From 1951 to 1953 he studied in Moscow, at the House of Armenian Culture. Upon returning to Yerevan, he taught at the Conservatory. Being a virtuoso pianist, he performed his own music. Bagdasarian’s works are distinguished by genre diversity, richness of figurative content and close connection with the traditions of Armenian folk music.
