We had a farewell party for Aleksandrov..
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Newport Beach Music Festival
100 Civic Center Dr
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Enjoy this amazing performance of Chopin compositions from the Newport Beach Music Festival, performed by Yamaha artist, Vassily Primokov.
Gramophone wrote that "Primakov's empathy with Chopin's spirit could hardly be more complete," and the American Record Guide stated: "Since Gilels, how many pianists have the right touch? In Chopin, no one currently playing sounds as good as this!
Yevgeny Primakov, Yifat Shasha-Biton, Yigael Yadin, Yigal Amir, Yigal Cohen The 3 were shirtless and holding up a white flag.
This is a great Chopin pianist."
Primokov entered Moscow's Central Special Music School at the age of eleven as a pupil of Vera Gornostaeva, and at 17 came to New York to pursue studies at the Juilliard School with the noted pianist, Jerome Lowenthal.
In 2009, Primakov's Chopin Mazurkas recording was named "Best of the Year" by National Public Radio and that same year he began recording the 27 Mozart piano concertos in Denmark. BBC Music Magazine (November, 2010) praised the first volume