Edition Ruhr Piano Festival, Vol. 40: Debuts and a World Premiere for Alfred Brendel (Live Recording 2021) Gevorgyan, Borisov, Mahidhara, A Bu, Armstrong, Bielow, Brendel

• Alexander Scriabin (1872 - 1915): 24 Preludes, Op. 11:
• 1 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 1, Vivace 00:57
• 2 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 2, Allegretto Grazioso 02:16
• 3 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 3, Vivo 00:45
• 4 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 4, Lento 01:50
• 5 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 5, Andante cantabile 01:32
• 6 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 6, Allegro 00:43
• 7 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 7, Allegro assai 00:52
• 8 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 8, Allegro agitato 01:43
• 9 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 9, Andantino 01:35
• 10 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 10, Andante 01:08
• 11 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 11, Allegro assai 01:31
• 12 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 12, Andante 01:37
• 13 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 13, Lento 01:23
• 14 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 14, Presto 00:53
• 15 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 15, Lento 01:49
• 16 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 16, Misterioso 01:31
• 17 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 17, Allegretto 00:40
• 18 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 18, Allegro agitato 00:51
• 19 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 19, Affettuoso 01:11
• 20 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 20, Appassionato 01:10
• 21 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 21, Andante 01:44
• 22 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 22, Allegro assai 01:14
• 23 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 23, Allegro agitato 00:41
• 24 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 24, Andantino 01:06
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943): Préludes, Op. 23:
• 25 Rachmaninoff: Préludes, Op. 23: No. 6, Andante 03:11
• 26 Rachmaninoff: Préludes, Op. 23: No. 5, Alla marcia 03:54
• 27 Rachmaninoff: Préludes, Op. 23: No. 3, Tempo di Menuetto 03:47
• 28 Rachmaninoff: Préludes, Op. 23: No. 4, Andante cantavbile 05:03
• Variations on a theme by Corelli, Op. 42:
• 29 Rachmaninoff: Variations on a theme by Corelli, Op. 42 18:00
• Song Cycle, Op. 21:
• 30 Rachmaninoff: Song Cycle, Op. 21: No. 5, Lilac 02:30
• Hopak, from Mussorgsky's opera "Sorochinsky Fair":
• 31 Rachmaninoff: Hopak, from Mussorgsky's opera "Sorochinsky Fair" 01:56
• Anatoli Ljadov (1855 - 1914): Barcarole, Op. 44:
• 32 Ljadov: Barcarole, Op. 44 04:20
• The Music Box, Op. 32:
• 33 Ljadov: The Music Box, Op. 32 02:14
• Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896): Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20:
• 34 Schumann: Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20 11:13
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): Variations and Fugue on a theme by George Frideric Handel, Op. 24:
• 35 Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a theme by George Frideric Handel, Op. 24 29:04
• Kit Armstrong (b. 1992): fast zu ernst, Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello:
• 36 Armstrong: fast zu ernst, Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello 06:05
• A BU (b. 1999): Prelude:
• 37 BU: Prelude 06:44
• Improvsation:
• 38 BU: Improvsation 09:12
• Bossa in G:
• 39 BU: Bossa in G 07:13
• Daybreak, Op. 26 (After Nicolai Kapustin):
• 40 BU: Daybreak, Op. 26 (After Nicolai Kapustin) 03:36
• Ballade in E:
• 41 BU: Ballade in E 05:38
• Someday My Prince Will Come (After Frank Churchill):
• 42 BU: Someday My Prince Will Come (After Frank Churchill) 06:58
• Improvisation II:
• 43 BU: Improvisation II 07:54
• Aria:
• 44 BU: Aria 09:27
• Improvisation III:
• 45 BU: Improvisation III 05:20
• Lullaby (After Kengo Nakamura):
• 46 BU: Lullaby (After Kengo Nakamura) 03:56
• Aint't Misbehavin' (After Fats Waller):
• 47 BU: Aint't Misbehavin' (After Fats Waller) 04:37
• Paint My Heart Red (After Keith Jarrett):
• 48 BU: Paint My Heart Red (After Keith Jarrett) 07:16
• Total Runtime 03:19:50

Info for Edition Ruhr Piano Festival, Vol. 40: Debuts and a World Premiere for Alfred Brendel (Live Recording 2021)

Also the concert season 2021 was suffering under the pandemic restrictions. Again and again the festival management tried, with great help of their very flexible agenda, to fix new dates. And that made it possible to record some of the evenings, programmed in the Vol. 40.

The classical orientated program made it on double album incl. a world premiere from Kit Armstrong (for Alfred Brendel). Like in previous years the additional album has been reserved for a Jazzline performance, executed and composed by A Bu who installed an energetic, exciting and diversified agenda with 12 tracks.

Eva Gevorgyan, piano
Roman Borisov, piano
Adrian Brendel, piano
Kit Armstrong, piano
Pallavi Mahidhara, piano
Andrej Bielow, piano

Eva Gevorgyan
Critics rave at her "emotional eloquence and impeccable technique" combined with all "the important features of a mature master" (ICMA): 17-year old Russian pianist Eva Gevorgyan has quickly established herself as one of the most promising talents in the pianistic world. Eva Gevorgyan has performed with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Russian National Orchestra, State Academic Symphony Orchestra “Evgeny Svetlanov”, Canton Symphony Orchestra, Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Malta Philharmonic and others. She has already performed at major concert venues including the Royal Albert Hall, the Mariinsky Concert Hall, Moscow Conservatory Great Hall, and KKL Lucerne. Eva has participated in the Verbier Festival, Mariinsky International Piano Festival, Duszniki International Chopin Piano Festival, Stars on Baikal Lake Festival by Denis Matsuev, Stars of the White Nights Festival, Eilat Chamber Music Festival, «Vladimir Spivakov invites...”, Palermo Classica Festival, the Perugia Piano Festival, ClaviCologne Festival and Klassik vor Acht, Jeune Chopin à Cannes, Ferrara Piano Festival, Elena Cobb Star Prize Festival, Fränkische Musiktage Alzenau and others. In January 2020 Eva was invited to perform in Yerevan in front of the President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian and his spouse. At the Alto Adige Festival she performed in the presence of Italy's President Sergio Mattarella.

Eva has appeared with such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Vasily Petrenko, Lawrence Foster, Alexander Sladkovsky, Roberto Beltrán-Zavala, Eduard Topchjan, Dimitris Botinis, Piotr Gribanov, Tigran Hakhnazaryan, Ruth Reinhardt, Anatoly Levin, Ilmar Lapinsh, and others.

Evgeny Kissin chose Eva Gevorgyan as a scholar of the 2020 Klavierfestival Ruhr. Eva was also an ICMA Discovery Award winner at the 2019 International Classical Music Awards. She is a grand-prix winner of the Russian National Orchestra Competition in 2021 and will play with Russian National Orchestra in the season 2021-22. In total, Eva has received awards at more than forty international competitions for piano and composition in the United States, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, and Russia among others, including First Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists (incl. special prize for the best interpretation of Bach and Canton Symphony Orchestra Prize), First Prize at the Robert Schumann Piano Competition in Dusseldorf, Second Prize and the Press Award at the Cliburn Junior International Piano Competition, Grand Prix and special prize for best Chopin interpretation at the Chicago International Music Competition, and First Prize at the Jeune Chopin International Piano Competition in Martigny. She has been a laureate and received five special prizes at Moscow's Grand Piano International Competition. Eva also won First Prizes at the Chopin International Piano Competition for Young Pianists in Szafarnia, Poland, and Portugal's St. Cecilia International Piano Competition, and won the Grand Prix at the International Piano Competition of Giuliano Pecar in Gorizia, Italy. Eva was awarded the Junior Prize (City Prize) at the Eppan Junior Piano Academy (Italy).

Eva is a Young Yamaha Artist. She received a scholarship from the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein and participates regularly in the intensive music weeks and activities offered by the Academy. She also holds scholarships from Denis Matsuev’s New Names Foundation, from YerazArt Foundation, Vladimir Spivakov’s International Foundation Artis Futura, and from the Armenian Assembly. Eva Gevorgyan was born in April 2004. She is studying with Professor Natalia Trull at the Central Music School in Moscow. Eva was invited to the International Piano Academy Lake Como, where she participated in masterclasses with Dmitry Bashkirov, Stanislav Ioudenitch and William Nabore. She has also participated in masterclasses with Pavel Gililov, Grigory Gruzman, Piotr Paleczny, Andrea Bonatta and Klaus Hellwig.

Roman Borisov
was born in 2002. He has studied at the Novosibirsk Conservatoire Music College since 2010 (Mary Lebenzon’s class). Borisov has performed at the Grand Hall of the Novosibirsk Conservatoire, the Novosibirsk State Philharmonic, the Moscow International Performing Arts Centre, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the Moscow Philharmonic, and the Louis Vuitton Foundation. He has collaborated with the Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia and the Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra. Borisov has taken part in the International ArsLonga Festival in Moscow, the Piano en Valois Festival (France), the Trans-Siberian Art Festival in Novosibirsk, the festival Vladimir Spivakov Invites as well as in many projects of the the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation.

From 2013–2015 he received Novosibirsk mayor’s scholarship. Since 2013 he has been a holder of the Governor of the Novosibirsk Region’s scholarship. In 2014 he obtained Denis Matsuev’s scholarship.

He is a winner of a dozen Russian and international competitions, including Astana Piano Passion (Kazakhstan), the Vladimir Krainev Moscow International Piano Competition and the Artobolevskaya International Competition for young pianists, and a recipient of the Colden Medal of the Delphic Games of Russia. In 2018, Borisov became a prize-winner of the International Grand Piano Competition in Moscow.

Booklet for Edition Ruhr Piano Festival, Vol. 40: Debuts and a World Premiere for Alfred Brendel (Live Recording 2021)