Igor Lovchinsky is a young Russian-American pianist who has studied at the Juilliard School and the New England Conservatory and has gotten out on the road and played recitals and concertos around the U.S. This release on the small Ivory Classics label from Palm Springs, CA, is his debut. Does he have what it takes to stand out from the crowd? Could be. The most unusual of the three items on the program is the set of Seven Virtuoso Etudes composed by Earl Wild to famous melodies of George Gershwin -- they're really more ...
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Igor Lovchinsky is a young Russian-American pianist who has studied at the Juilliard School and the New England Conservatory and has gotten out on the road and played recitals and concertos around the U.S. This release on the small Ivory Classics label from Palm Springs, CA, is his debut. Does he have what it takes to stand out from the crowd? Could be. The most unusual of the three items on the program is the set of Seven Virtuoso Etudes composed by Earl Wild to famous melodies of George Gershwin -- they're really more Wild than Gershwin, despite the Gershwin/Wild designation, and if they leach some rhythmic vitality out of Gershwin, they carry plenty of technical challenges, in which Lovchinsky apparently received instruction directly from the nonagenarian pianist himself. Lovchinsky handles these with notable smoothness, and he offers original and notably unfussy readings of three Chopin mazurkas and the big Polonaise-Fantasie, Op. 61, to open the program, emphasizing large lines over ornamentation...
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Add this copy of Debut Recording to cart. $2.08, very good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Ivory Classics.
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