Emile Naumoff - Live In Paris - Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Rachmaninov / Gega New Audio CD 1995 

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Émile Naoumoff (Bulgarian: Емил Наумов; born 20 February 1962 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian pianist and composer. He revealed himself a musical prodigy at age five, taking up study of the piano and adding composition to his studies a year later. At the age of eight, after a fateful meeting in Paris, he became the last disciple of Nadia Boulanger, who referred to him as "the gift of my old age". He studied with her until her death in late 1979. Boulanger gave him the opportunity to work with Clifford Curzon, Igor Markevitch, Robert and Gaby Casadesus, Nikita Magaloff, Jean Françaix, Leonard Bernstein, Soulima Stravinsky, Aram Khachaturian and Yehudi Menuhin. Lord Menuhin conducted the premiere of Naoumoff's first Piano Concerto, with the composer as a soloist when he was ten years old. He pursued studies at the Paris Conservatory with Lélia Gousseau, Pierre Sancan, Geneviève Joy-Dutilleux, as well as at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Pierre Dervaux (conducting).

Tracklist:

TCHAIKOVSKY

[1] Romeo and Juliet   17:01

Seasons

[2] Song of the Lark (March)   1:59

[3] Snow Drop pr)   2:48

[4] Barcarolle (June)   4:40

[5] The Autumn Song (October)   4:19

SCRIABIN

[6] Etude in C sharp minor op.2 No.1   2:23

[7] Etude in B flat minor op.8 No.11   3:56

RACHMANINOV

[8] Prelude in C sharp minor op.3 No.2   4:55

[9] Prelude in G sharp minor op.32 No.12   2:38

[10] Vocalise op.34 No.14   7:03

[11] Etudes - Tableaux op.39 No.4   2:12

[12] Polichinelle op.3 No.4   3:35

STRAVINSKY (bis)

[13] Tango   3:13