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Yakov Flier - The Igumnov School

Yakov Flier (piano)

Yakov Flier - The Igumnov School

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Yakov Flier was a distinguished pupil of Igumnov, and on this disc plays consistently better than his teacher. The Kabalevsky 24 Preludes have phenomenal élan, and everything is fresh, even...

BBC Music Magazine, January 20084 out of 5 stars

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Yakov Flier - The Igumnov School

Yakov Flier (piano)

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Awards:

Yakov Flier was a distinguished pupil of Igumnov, and on this disc plays consistently better than his teacher. The Kabalevsky 24 Preludes have phenomenal élan, and everything is fresh, even...

BBC Music Magazine, January 20084 out of 5 stars

More reviews

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We continue our comprehensive survey of the many great pianists who worked in Russia in the Soviet era with the first two discs in the Igumnov School. The bulk of the issues will be divided into 'schools' which represent the three main teachers of this period - Neuhaus, Goldenweiser and Igumnov, - and their pupils. Igumnov was the oldest of the thre great teachers we are considering.

Contents and tracklist

Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre'
Work length23:41
  • Yakov Flier
I. Grave - Doppio movimento
Track length5:49
II. Scherzo
Track length7:06
III. Marche funèbre. Lento
Track length9:14
IV. Finale. Presto
Track length1:32
Excerpt,Rachmaninoff: Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3
Work length4:17
  • Yakov Flier
No. 2, Prelude in C-Sharp Minor
Track length4:17
Excerpt,Rachmaninoff: Preludes Op. 23 Nos. 1-10
Work length3:50
  • Yakov Flier
No. 5 in G Minor. Alla marcia
Track length3:50
Kabalevsky: 24 Preludes Op. 38
Work length42:45
  • Yakov Flier
No. 1, Andantino
Track length1:40
No. 2, Scherzando
Track length0:33
No. 3, Vivace
Track length1:10
No. 4, Andantino
Track length1:39
No. 5, Andante sostenuto
Track length1:49
No. 6, Allegro molto
Track length1:06
No. 7, Moderato e tranquillo
Track length2:21
No. 8, Andante non troppo - Semplice e cantando
Track length2:10
No. 9, Allegretto scherzando
Track length1:05
No. 10, Non troppo allegro, ma agitato - Recitando, rubato
Track length2:33
No. 11, Vivace scherzando
Track length0:43
No. 12, Adagio
Track length3:00
No. 13, Allegro non troppo
Track length2:25
No. 14, Prestissimo possibile
Track length1:49
No. 15, Allegro marcato
Track length0:45
No. 16, Allegro tenebroso
Track length1:36
No. 17, Andantino tranquillo
Track length2:13
No. 18, Largamente con gravita
Track length1:20
No. 19, Allegretto
Track length0:48
No. 20, Andantino semplice
Track length2:34
No. 21, Festivamente. Non troppo allegro
Track length1:27
No. 22, Scherzando. Non troppo allegro
Track length1:46
No. 23, Andante sostenuto
Track length2:16
No. 24, Allegro feroce
Track length3:57

Awards and reviews

  • Gramophone Magazine
    January 2008
    Re-issue of the Month

January 2008

Yakov Flier was a distinguished pupil of Igumnov, and on this disc plays consistently better than his teacher. The Kabalevsky 24 Preludes have phenomenal élan, and everything is fresh, even if sometimes weird.
4 out of 5 stars

Janurary 2008

Revered as an influential teacher at the Moscow Conservatoire, Yakov Flier is also much revered by his fans as one of the greats of the old-school Russian pianists. Flier never achieved the fame of Richter, but is very much in that line. Here the Kabalevsky and Rachmaninov Preludes are especially good examples of Flier’s idiosyncractic power...Flier's generosity and poetic leeway in Chopin's Second Sonata has little to do with present-day severity. His rubato is personal but never excessive… and the entire performance is exceptionally powerful and eloquent.
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