Classic Archive Trailer: Tatiana Nikolayeva

In their mid-price new series "CLASSIC ARCHIVE", Medici Arts presents lovingly restored great performances from legendary artists, highlighting our outstanding heritage of classical music. The distinguished pianist, composer and teacher Tatiana Nikolayeva (1924-1993) represents the wealth of piano talent to flood from the former Soviet Union during the twentieth century like no other. Especially close to the composer, Shostakovich's cycle of 24 Preludes and Fugues always held a special place in Tatiana Nikolayeva's vast repertoire. She inspired and premiered the work in Leningrad in 1952 and it was also the piece she performed when she died in concert in San Francisco in 1993. The lifelong friendship between the composer and the performer started when the 26-year-old Nikolayeva won first prize at the 1950 Bach Piano competition organized in Leipzig for the bicentennial of the German composer's death. As a member of the jury, Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) was immensely impressed by her playing and inspired by the experience, he returned to Moscow to compose his own set of Preludes and Fugues in 1950/51. This DVD features a broadcast recording from December 1992 of the complete cycle and also adds more of Dmitri Shostakovich's music played by Tatiana Nikolayeva in a documentary bonus film.

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[turxxx]

My favourite pianist. Thanks for sharing!

[BrucknerMotet]

You can add the U.S. to the Tatiana fan club.

[klavierspieler72]

Stupendously elegant. She may look like a Russian grandmother, but she plays with such beauty of tone and evenness. Superb!

[LolloBlackGlamour]

She was the teacher of my teacher!!!!

[Martel211996]

This is Nikolai Luganskys teacher

[kikakon]

Wonderful!!

[iamalittlespy]

Why was Richter unkind ? What did he say about her ?

[wineflores]

Vey nice!!!

[lovesGenet]

why was Richter  so unkind to her memory and her playing.

[bersa888]

Ahhhhh... the Russian School!

[GiovanniNesi]

op. 87! :)