Andrei Gavrilov - Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon (10CD)

Several long-deleted albums reissued in this comprehensive survey of Andrei Gavrilov’s DG career: superbly engineered recordings of a pianist in the great Russian tradition.

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For three years in the early 1990s, Andrei Gavrilov belonged to the Deutsche Grammophon stable of artists, alongside his contemporaries Krystian Zimerman and Ivo Pogorelich. Like them he had technique to burn and a searching approach to repertoire which in the hands of other pianists has often become an exhibition of facility. During that period he made nine albums, both revisiting classics of his repertoire and taking on new challenges. He also joined his Decca colleague Vladimir Ashkenazy for a Stravinsky disc which had critics purring over the dynamism and finesse of The Rite of Spring in its two-piano arrangement.

This original covers box features new essays on the pianist and his career by Peter Quantrill and Peter Czornyj, Gavrilov’s producer at Deutsche Grammophon.

TRACK LIST

CD 1
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

CDs 2–3
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)
French Suites Nos. 1–6

CD 4
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828)
Impromptus, D.899 & 935

CD 5
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810–1849)
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35
Four Ballades

CD 6
EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907)
Lyric Pieces (selection)

CD 7
SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891–1953)
Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28
Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 83
Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op. 84

CD 8
SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891–1953)
Ten Pieces for Piano from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75
Suggestion diabolique, Op. 4 No. 4
Prelude in C major, Op. 12 No. 7

MAURICE RAVEL (1875–1937)
Gaspard de la nuit
Pavane pour une infante défunte

CD 9
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913–1976)
Friday Afternoons, Op. 7
Sailing, Op. 5 No. 2 (Holiday Diary)
The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
Night, Op. 5 No. 4 (Holiday Diary)
The Golden Vanity, Op. 78
Gernot Fuhrmann, Mark Bittermann, Michael Matzner, trebles
Thomas Weinhappel, Wolfgang Wieringer, boy altos
Wiener Sängerknaben · Jaume Miranda, chorus master
Chorus Viennensis · Peter Marschik, chorus master

CD 10
IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882–1971)
Scherzo à la Russe
Concerto for Two Pianos
Sonata for Two Pianos
Le Sacre du printemps
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (II)

Andrei Gavrilov, piano