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The Nikolayev School: Maria Yudina | APR APR5670

The Nikolayev School: Maria Yudina

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Cat No: APR5670

Barcode: 5024709156702

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 26th October 2009

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We continue our comprehensive survey of the many great pianists who worked in Russia in the Soviet era with the first disc featuring a pianist who was not a pupil of one of the three major teaching traditions we have been following. Maria Yudina’s most influential professor was Leonid Nikolayev (1878-1942), who also taught Sofronitsky.

Maria Yudina is perhaps the greatest maverick amongst the Soviet pianists. A woman of great will, and one with a burning Christian faith, she somehow seemed to survive on the fringes of the Soviet system while having countless run-ins with authority. She was never allowed to play outside the USSR and was dismissed successively from the Leningrad and then Moscow conservatories, yet she was much loved by the people and respected by her peers, Shostakovich in particular.

She was a great champion of contemporary western music, another thorn in the side of the authorities, and introduced many such works to Soviet audiences, but she was also renowned for her playing of Bach and Beethoven. She made many recordings, which are at last making their way onto CD, but one of the finest is undoubtedly her towering rendition of Beethoven's great masterpiece, the 'Hammerklavier' sonata which is included here.

Contents:
Beethoven
- Piano Sonata No.12 in A flat major Op.26
Recorded in Moscow c1958
- Piano Sonata No.28 in A flat major Op.101
Recorded in Moscow c1958
- Piano Sonata No.29 in B flat major Op.106 ‘Hammerklavier’
Recorded in Moscow c1954

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