Q. Mr. Gavrilov, you made your international debut at the Salzburg Festival substituting for Sviatoslav Richter. Could you share with us the circumstances that led to this substitution and your personal sensations before, during and after the concert? – The ministry of Soviet culture had informed the festival about Richter’s illness in a very short…
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Gavrilisms
The main and only dream of idiots and dictators is permanency. Musical business also heavily sick by the very same illness. All the Russian idiots-musicians, so called creative artists suffer this mental disorder. Violent implanting of permanency kills life everywhere, in any society. It killed USSR, killed many dictatorship. Killed music. Killing Russia now. It…
Concert in Cyprus (Schumann / Prokofiev)
Andrei Gavrilov First time in Cyprus Performing 23th of September 2017 Pattihio Municipal Theatre Limassol, Cyprus “Best of romance and best of 20 century Russians”. Despite the fact that “Butterflies” is only the second opus of Schumann, in this small carnival – Schumann’s favorite musical-theatrical form – the inner world of one of the purest…
Edvard Grieg – Lyric Pieces Book V, Op. 54, no. 4 “Notturno”
Edvard Grieg… Hearing this name, we immediately visualize the nature of the north. This is something that happens to us automatically. It comes somehow together with epic paintings depicting Peer Gynt, Solveig, trolls, mountain caves, fjords with crystal water, purity and whiteness of snow… How is this happening and why? Is this happening simply…
Lisztomania
Another Ken’s very serious joke – pop Liszt after pop Tchaikovsky. Still some funny moments works good. ❤ 🙂 In remembrance of not so long ago time when people were quite different, much more intelligent and refined, greatly attractive even joking. Still they were THE PEOPLE ALIVE, not a strange mixture of “bloody proletarians and…
From Moscow to Pietushki
Hard to imagine I was born and raised in this mortal absurd. I have to say Erofeev sounds better in English. More sober and deeply philosophic. Also irony sounds better in English. It’s colder, remote and more bitter than in sentimental Russian language. In fact Benny is a very English character in spite being deadly…
Shostakovich : spectacular video from the film “War symphonies”
Очень упрощенно, схематично, но, для букварного понимания этой музыки ДДШ – позволительно.
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 Op. 30
ЗАВЕРШЕНИЕ ТЕМЫ, ДЛИННОЙ В 30 ЛЕТ. О таком взаимодействии с оркестром я мечтал всю жизнь. Мечтали многие поколения музыкантов. Но не знали как этого достичь. Перед смертью это инстинктивно почувствовал Джон Огдон, но было поздно, не было уже ни оркестра, который попробовал бы с ним новое, ни здоровья, жизнь оборвалась. Его идею я подхватил в…
Break the border in your brains
Whatever critical I say, my dear friends, it does not mean I do not care. Quite the opposite. I do care. My message – do not talk, do work. Break the border in your brains. There lies a whole lot of all the pain you experiencing. Musicians? I do not think it is possible to…
Curiosity Killed the Cat
Have a very good night my dear Russian speaking boys and girls. Those costumes were real “cool stuff” back in 87, when I still was a “hot TV star” on British TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3w3O3bDhZc&feature=share
Сеул, Корея
Рад поделиться с вами, дорогие друзья, Корея подтвердила концерты play/conduct в новом крупнейшем зале с их лидирующим оркестром.Премьера нового формата в Азии состоится 7/8 ноября. Кроме того корейская сторона попросила и аннотации/программы для концерта. Которые я здесь прилагаю. Замечательный триумф наших совместных дел, дорогие друзья – сольное выступление с дирижированием и литературная победа. Спасибо Сеул….
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 – 1st Movement
Another SR word about spring. And spiritual resurrection through love, beauty, nature and culture.
Andrei Gavrilov: Interview with Asteroid Publishing Company
Musical genius talking about arts, politics, philosophy and more… Andrei Gavrilov is a Swiss pianist of Russian descent. According to critics, he is among the world’s greatest concert pianists. His father was an eminent painter but it was his pianist mother who not only encouraged and taught him to play the piano but, more importantly,…
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