Alexander Malofeev - Forgotten Melodies
Alexander Malofeev, already one of the most celebrated pianists of the young generation, releases his debut on Sony Classical with Forgotten Melodies.
Born in Moscow in 2001, Alexander Malofeev studied at two famous institutes in his homeland: the Gnessin Special School and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. In 2014, he won first prize in the young talent edition of the renowned International Tchaikovsky Competition - at the age of just thirteen
.he now lives in Berlin. With his first album for Sony Classical, he wants to combine the traces of his origins with those of the present. "I chose Berlin more or less by chance. Berlin used to be, at least temporarily, the home of Glinka, Glazunov and Medtner. "
For Forgotten Melodies, Alexander Malofeev has selected four composers who all come from Russia but died far from their homeland: Alexander Glazunov in Paris in 1936, Mikhail Glinka in Berlin in 1857, Sergei Rachmaninoff in Beverly Hills in 1943 and Nikolai Medtner in London in 1951. But more than the theme of "exile", which has had a significant influence on the lives of these four composers, Malofeev is moved by another thought: "They all share a similar sense of nostalgia - the longing for something indeterminate, for something that never existed in reality. Almost a dream world, and you can find it everywhere on this album. "
The longest of the selected works is the Second Sonata by Sergei Rachmaninoff, written in Russia and revised almost two decades later in Switzerland. "I've loved Rachmaninoff for as long as I can remember," Malofeev admits, referring to both the composer and the pianist Rachmaninoff: "His freedom, his spirit, his hands, his genius."
Alexander Malofeev deliberately opted for the revised version of the sonata because it is shorter, more concise, more economical and "thus comes closer to Medtner. "
The Sonata reminiscenza op. 38 No. 1 by Nikolai Medtner is another focus of the double album. It is the opening piece of the first cycle of three of the Forgotten Melodies, which the composer wrote before he left the Soviet Union in 1921
. Not yet in his mid-twenties, Alexander Malofeev has already played his way into the international spotlight - thanks to a great technique and, above all, because of a special expressiveness in his playing. The conductor Riccardo Chailly sees him as "more than just a child prodigy", because for him Malofeev possesses "not only technical mastery, but musical maturity".
Alexander Malofeev, already one of the most celebrated pianists of the young generation, releases his debut on Sony Classical with Forgotten Melodies.
Born in Moscow in 2001, Alexander Malofeev studied at two famous institutes in his homeland: the Gnessin Special School and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. In 2014, he won first prize in the young talent edition of the renowned International Tchaikovsky Competition - at the age of just thirteen
.he now lives in Berlin. With his first album for Sony Classical, he wants to combine the traces of his origins with those of the present. "I chose Berlin more or less by chance. Berlin used to be, at least temporarily, the home of Glinka, Glazunov and Medtner. "
For Forgotten Melodies, Alexander Malofeev has selected four composers who all come from Russia but died far from their homeland: Alexander Glazunov in Paris in 1936, Mikhail Glinka in Berlin in 1857, Sergei Rachmaninoff in Beverly Hills in 1943 and Nikolai Medtner in London in 1951. But more than the theme of "exile", which has had a significant influence on the lives of these four composers, Malofeev is moved by another thought: "They all share a similar sense of nostalgia - the longing for something indeterminate, for something that never existed in reality. Almost a dream world, and you can find it everywhere on this album. "
The longest of the selected works is the Second Sonata by Sergei Rachmaninoff, written in Russia and revised almost two decades later in Switzerland. "I've loved Rachmaninoff for as long as I can remember," Malofeev admits, referring to both the composer and the pianist Rachmaninoff: "His freedom, his spirit, his hands, his genius."
Alexander Malofeev deliberately opted for the revised version of the sonata because it is shorter, more concise, more economical and "thus comes closer to Medtner. "
The Sonata reminiscenza op. 38 No. 1 by Nikolai Medtner is another focus of the double album. It is the opening piece of the first cycle of three of the Forgotten Melodies, which the composer wrote before he left the Soviet Union in 1921
. Not yet in his mid-twenties, Alexander Malofeev has already played his way into the international spotlight - thanks to a great technique and, above all, because of a special expressiveness in his playing. The conductor Riccardo Chailly sees him as "more than just a child prodigy", because for him Malofeev possesses "not only technical mastery, but musical maturity".
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Alexander Malofeev, already one of the most celebrated pianists of the young generation, releases his debut on Sony Classical with Forgotten Melodies.
Born in Moscow in 2001, Alexander Malofeev studied at two famous institutes in his homeland: the Gnessin Special School and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. In 2014, he won first prize in the young talent edition of the renowned International Tchaikovsky Competition - at the age of just thirteen
.he now lives in Berlin. With his first album for Sony Classical, he wants to combine the traces of his origins with those of the present. "I chose Berlin more or less by chance. Berlin used to be, at least temporarily, the home of Glinka, Glazunov and Medtner. "
For Forgotten Melodies, Alexander Malofeev has selected four composers who all come from Russia but died far from their homeland: Alexander Glazunov in Paris in 1936, Mikhail Glinka in Berlin in 1857, Sergei Rachmaninoff in Beverly Hills in 1943 and Nikolai Medtner in London in 1951. But more than the theme of "exile", which has had a significant influence on the lives of these four composers, Malofeev is moved by another thought: "They all share a similar sense of nostalgia - the longing for something indeterminate, for something that never existed in reality. Almost a dream world, and you can find it everywhere on this album. "
The longest of the selected works is the Second Sonata by Sergei Rachmaninoff, written in Russia and revised almost two decades later in Switzerland. "I've loved Rachmaninoff for as long as I can remember," Malofeev admits, referring to both the composer and the pianist Rachmaninoff: "His freedom, his spirit, his hands, his genius."
Alexander Malofeev deliberately opted for the revised version of the sonata because it is shorter, more concise, more economical and "thus comes closer to Medtner. "
The Sonata reminiscenza op. 38 No. 1 by Nikolai Medtner is another focus of the double album. It is the opening piece of the first cycle of three of the Forgotten Melodies, which the composer wrote before he left the Soviet Union in 1921
. Not yet in his mid-twenties, Alexander Malofeev has already played his way into the international spotlight - thanks to a great technique and, above all, because of a special expressiveness in his playing. The conductor Riccardo Chailly sees him as "more than just a child prodigy", because for him Malofeev possesses "not only technical mastery, but musical maturity".
