The 1989 Herodes Atticus Odeon Recital

Featuring

Tatiana Nikolayeva
Johann Sebastian Bach
Robert Schumann
Maurice Ravel
Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Borodin

Modest Mussorgsky
Sergei Prokofiev

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Performer Biography

Tatyana Nikolayeva suffered a stroke during a 1993 performance of Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 in San Francisco, but continued to play until the end of the first half.

Performer Biography

Tatyana Nikolayeva's vast repertoire included some fifty works for piano and orchestra, all the keyboard works of Bach, and all the piano sonatas by Beethoven.

Performer Biography

Tatyana Nikolayeva gave the premiere of Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 in Leningrad in 1952, beginning a friendship with the composer that lasted until his death.

Performer Biography

Tatyana Nikolayeva, the pianist on this album, was considered the greatest Bach player of her generation and an undisputed authority on Shostakovich's music.

Recording & Production

This album is a first release of a live recital by Tatyana Nikolayeva, recorded at the Herodes Atticus Odeon in Athens, Greece, on September 16, 1989.

Composition History

Dmitri Shostakovich, a jury member at the 1950 Bach Competition in Leipzig, was so impressed by Tatyana Nikolayeva that he decided to compose his 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 for her.

Performer Biography

Tatyana Nikolayeva studied with the great Russian pedagogue Alexander Goldenweiser from the age of thirteen, continuing her lessons with him at the Moscow Conservatory.