Tatiana Nikolayeva

TATIANA NIKOLAYEVA (1924-1993)
Russian-Soviet pianist

Tatiana Nikolayeva was one of the greatest of the Soviet era pianists. She was a pupil of Alexander Goldenweiser at the Moscow Conservatory. Her fellow students included such notables as Lazar Berman, Grigory Ginzburg, Samuil Feinberg, and Dimitri Bashkirov.

She is universally acknowledged for her Bach which is simply amazing and deserves a page of its own: Nikolayeva Plays Bach. There will also be a page for her larger than life performances with Orchestra: Nikolayeva the Soloist.

On this page you will hear Tatiana Nikolayeva play Schubert and Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann and Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

But Tatiana Nikolayeva was also a composer of some note having composed two piano concerti, a symphony, a violin concerto, chamber works, and piano music. We will begin with three of her own Opus 13 Concert Études composed between 1951 and 1953.

And at the end you will find a recording of a complete recital by tatiana Nikolayeva which took place in Salzburg in 1987.

Nikolayeva Études de Concert in e minor, in b minor and in C Major

Schubert Piano Sonata in B flat Major, D 960

Beethoven Piano Sonata 1 in f minor, Op 2 n1

recorded live in 1984

Beethoven Piano Sonata 23 in f minor, Op 57 "Appassionata"

recorded live in 1984

Beethoven Piano Sonata 32 in c minor, Op 111

I. Maestoso - Allegro con brio e appassionato
II. Arietta. Adagio molto semplice e cantabile (9:07)

recorded live in 1983

Chopin Variations brillantes in B flat Major on "Je vends des scapulaires" from Hérold's Ludovic

recorded in 1953

Schumann Intermezzo aus Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op 26

Schumann/Liszt Fruehlingsnacht, Op 39 n12

Liszt Piano Sonata in b minor

recorded live in 1967

Part I

Part II

Tchaikovsky Valse à 5 Temps, Op 72 n16

Rachmaninoff Moment Musical in e minor, Op 16 n4

recorded recorded late 1940s/early 1950s

Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf (Transcription by Nikolayeva)

Part I

1 Peter - 2 The bird - 3 The cat

Part II

Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, Op 87

1 in C major 0:00 - 2 in a minor 5:33 - 3 in G Major 8:02 - 4 in e minor 12:06 - 5 in D Major 21:57 - 6 in b minor 24:36 - 7 in A Major 34:12 - 8 in f sharp minor 37:44 - 9 in E Major 47:47 - 10 in c sharp minor 52:23 - 11 in B Major 59:58 - 12 in g sharp minor 1:03:48 - 13 in F sharp Major 1:12:42 - 14 in e flat minor 1:22:26 - 15 in D flat Major 1:29:37 - 16 in b flat minor 1:34:50 - 17 in A flat Major 1:46:52 - 18 in f minor 1:52:51 - 19 in E flat Major 1:59:05 - 20 in c minor 2:04:11 - 21 in B flat Major 2:15:19 - 22 in g minor 2:19:54 - 23 in F Major 2:28:14 - 24 in d minor 2:35:06

recorded live in 1987