BORIS TCHAIKOVSKY (1925-1996)
PIANO AND CHAMBER WORKS
OLGA SOLOVIEVA, piano (1-3, primo), (27-28)
DMITRY KOROSTELYOV, piano (1-3, secondo), (4-26)
MARINA DICHENKO, violin (27-28)
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.
Sonata for Two Pianos: I. Resonances
TOTAL TIME: 64:09
OLGA SOLOVIEVA graduated from the Russian Academy of Music (Moscow) and took a post-graduate course as an assistant to Leonid Blok. In 1999 she was a prize-winner at the Open Taneyev Chamber Music Competition, Russia, and in 2000 a finalist at the XX Chamber Music Competition in Trapani, Italy. She received the Best Accompanist Prize at the XII International Tchaikovsky Competition and is a Boris Tchaikovsky Society Award Winner (2010). She has recorded for Naxos (Sergey Taneyev, 8.557804, and Boris Tchaikovsky, 8.557727 and 8.573207) as well as for Toccata Classics, Albany records and Northern Flowers.
DMITRY KOROSTELYOV was born in Volgograd and began his piano studies there. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 2003 and completed his post-graduate studies in composition under Valery Kikta at the Moscow Conservatory. As a pianist, he has performed with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra, and Russkaya Conservatoria Chamber Capella. He has recorded three CDs with the music of Nikolay Peyko and Mieczysław Weinberg for Toccata Classics.
MARINA DICHENKO studied violin at the Central Music School, in Kharkov, Ukraine, before continuing her studies at the Russian Academy of Music (Moscow) under Halida Akhtiamova, Leonid Blok, and Valentin Berlinsky. In 2014 she completed the Artist Diploma programme at TCU School of Music in Fort Worth, USA, where she is currently a teaching artist at the Youth Music Program. She is a prize winner of chamber music competitions in Donetsk, Ukraine, and the International Taneyev Chamber Music Competition in Russia, and has performed in concerts and festivals in Ukraine, Russia, Belgium, Japan, and the United States.
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