Hommage à Debussy: Arabesque, Nocturne, Préludes Livre I et al. Amir Tebenikhin

• Arabesque N° 1 (1888)
• 1 No. 1 in E major 04:21
• Arabesque N° 2 (1888)
• 2 No. 2 in G major 03:57
• Danse bohémienne (1880)
• 3 Danse bohemienne 02:10
• Ballade (slave) (1890–1891)
• 4 Ballade 08:14
• Danse (Tarentelle styrienne) (1890–1891)
• 5 Danse, Tarantelle styrienne 05:29
• Nocturne (1892)
• 6 Nocturne 07:52
• Préludes Livre I (1910)
• 7 No. 1. Danseuses de Delphes 03:06
• 8 No. 2. Voiles 04:24
• 9 No. 3. Le vent dans la plaine 02:32
• 10 No. 4. Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir 04:17
• 11 No. 5. Les collines d'Anacapri 03:16
• 12 No. 6. Des pas sur la neige 04:44
• 13 No. 7. Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest 03:45
• 14 No. 8. La fille aux cheveux de lin 02:44
• 15 No. 9. La serenade interrompue 02:36
• 16 No. 10. La cathedrale engloutie 06:49
• 17 No. 11. La danse de Puck 03:28
• 18 No. 12. Minstrels 02:34
• Total Runtime 01:16:18

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Claude Debussy was profoundly permeated by his French roots. But works like Ballade (slave) also prove that Russian influences from Tchaikovsky also played an important role. The Danse bohémienne and the Arabesques also allow the listener, standing with both feet in France, to wander towards the East in thought. It's a good thing the young Russian pianist Amir Tebenikhin knows so well how to take us on this trip with this second album of the Blüthner-Debussy collection.

"Tebenikhin brings all the necessary elements to these works: imagination, rhythmic drive, tenderness, and an unfailing sense of legato line." (American Record Guide)

"At the very first new notes I immediately looked up and smiled. Damn this sounds good and it ain’t just the engineering. This piano is utterly amazing." (Classical Net)

Amir Tebenikhin, piano

Amir Tebenikhin
was born in Moscow in 1977. He began learning the piano with his father Vladimir Tebenikhin, a famous Russian organist and pianist and pupil of Lew N. Oborin at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. Later Amir Tebenikhin studied with Jania Aubakirova, Aida Isakova and Michail Balabitchev at Baiseitova Music College in Almaty, Kazakhstan. From 1996 he studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire with Mikhail Voskresensky. Since 2004 Mr. Tebenikhin moved to Musikhochschule, Hanover, to continue his studies with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. The young pianist was awarded the First Prize at the George Enescu International Piano Competition 2009 in Bucharest, Romania. In 1999 Mr. Tebenikhin won the First Prize in XIII Vianna da Motta International Music Competition in Lisbon. Other prestigious prizes include Special Prize at the 56 th Geneva International Piano Competition, Laureate at the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition in Brussels in 2003, Second Prize and Special Prize for the best interpretation of a Concerto with Orchestra at the First Carl Bechstein International Piano Competition in Essen, First Prize at the Third Anton G. Rubinstein International Piano Competition 2007 in Dresden. Most recently he was awarded the German Piano Award 2011 in Frankfurt am Main. Mr. Tebenikhin has concertised in major halls of the world such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Wigmore Hall (London) and Salle Pleyel and Salle Cortot (Paris). He has frequent appearances in music festivals as well as performances with orchestras, including the Gulbenkian Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sendai Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi with Vladimir Spivakov, Kazakh State Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, „George Enescu“ Philharmonic Orchestra under Ilarion Ionescu-Galati, European Union Youth Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy, just to name a few.

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