Nikolaeva Discography of CDs

Tatiana Nikolaeva, pianoSHOSTAKOVICH: Preludes & Fugues Nos. 11-16 J.S. Bach died in 1750. Exactly 200 years later, Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich made a pilgrimage to Leipzig to hear Tatiana Nikolaeva play at (and win) the J.S. Competition. In her honor, he began composing his own series of 24 keyboard preludes and fugues, modeled after Bach's The Well- Tempered Clavier. The Shostakovich works have remained relatively unknown until recent years, despite being proclaimed by many critics as among his greatest masterworks; to a degree this is because he is principally associated with orchestral music. This disc is the second volume of the complete series, as recorded in 1987 by Nikolaeva, who played these works for over 30 years. The work is dedicated to Mme. Nikolaeva, who gave the first performance in 1952. She recorded it three times, then died suddenly after playing it in a San Francisco concert in 1992.

J.S. Bach died in 1750. Exactly 200 years later, Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich made a pilgrimage to Leipzig to hear Tatiana Nikolaeva play at (and win) the J.S. Bach Competition. In her honor, he began composing his own series of 24 keyboard preludes and fugues modeled after Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier. The Shostakovich works have remained relatively unknown until recent years, despite being proclaimed by many critics as among his greatest masterworks; to a degree, this is because he is principally associated with orchestral music. This disc offers the last eight of the complete series, as recorded in 1987 by Nikolaeva, who played these works for over 30 years. The work is dedicated to Mme. Nikolaeva, who gave the first performance in 1952. She recorded it three times, and died suddenly after playing it in a 1992 concert in San Francisco. Born in 1924, Tatiana Nikolaeva studied at the Moscow Conservatory and began teaching there in 1959. She became one of the most beloved instructors in the history of that august institution. Nikolaeva possessed a magnificent technique and an extraordinary memory (she knew 50 piano concertos by ...