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Anton Batagov: Tchaikovsky Competition 1986 | Melodiya MELCD1002464

Anton Batagov: Tchaikovsky Competition 1986

Label: Melodiya

Cat No: MELCD1002464

Barcode: 4600317124640

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 2nd December 2016

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Melodiya presents recordings of the renowned Russian composer and pianist Anton Batagov made at the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Competition.

Fans of the musician who is known as a genre-breaking composer, performer and ardent propagandist of the most radical styles of contemporary music, may find this album surprising. Beethoven, Chopin, Scriabin, Prokofiev and, of course, Tchaikovsky are performed by the 20-year-old student of the Moscow Conservatory who was not admitted to the final round of the prestigious contest but was awarded an important prize: “for best performance of Tchaikovsky’s music”.

Even then the young musician, one of the most promising pianists from Tatiana Nikolayeva’s class, was confident of his propensities. A lover of 20th-century music, including that written by his contemporaries, he interprets Beethoven, Scriabin and Prokofiev with youthful enthusiasm void of academic clichés. As Anton Batagov admitted, Tchaikovsky’s music was something that he had to struggle with. Only when he was preparing for the competition, he came to realize the depth of the Russian music genius – “as an extremely lonely and extremely closed man who had an infinitely subtle perception of the world... as a man to whom life was, first of all, an impossibility of happiness”. And at the same time, a man of “absolute harmony and fabulous beauty”. These recordings, made 30 years ago during the first two rounds of the VIIIth Tchaikovsky International Competition, are released here for the first time.

Recorded live at the Tchaikovsky Competition, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, June 1986

Re-mastered by Anastasia Rybakova at the Grand Hall studios of the Moscow Conservatory in July 2016

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