Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Debussy & Others: Piano Works

Featuring

Karim Shehata
Sergei Prokofiev
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Maurice Ravel
Felix Blumenfeld

Ottorino Respighi
Sergei Taneyev
Gabriel Fauré
Frédéric Chopin
Bohuslav Martinů
Anton Arensky
Samuil Feinberg
Claude Debussy
Olivier Messiaen
Alexander Scriabin

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Composer Biography

Ottorino Respighi, an Italian composer on this album, also studied composition with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and his teaching lineage traces back to Friedrich Kalkbrenner, to whom Chopin dedicated his Piano Concerto No. 1.

Performer Biography

Pianist Karim Shehata's concert career focuses on traditional classical piano repertoire, with a particular passion for piano cycles by composers like Bach, Debussy, Brahms, and Liszt.

Composer Biography

Alexander Siloti, whose transcription of Bach's Prélude in B minor is on this album, was one of Franz Liszt's last pupils, a student of Sergei Taneyev, and a cousin of Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Composer Biography

Anton Arensky, another composer on this album and a pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory and taught both Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin.

Album & Artwork

The album aims to introduce lesser-known composers like Anton Arensky, Sergei Taneyev, Alexander Siloti, and Samuil Feinberg, who were prominent in their time.

Composer Biography

Felix Blumenfeld, a composer featured on this album, was a pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, known for works like Scheherazade, and later taught Vladimir Horowitz.

Composer's Artistic Vision

The album's intention is to evoke the same feeling as listening to a single prelude, with different impressions resonating and creating expectant curiosity.