DANIIL SHAFRAN Yakov FLIERE/Flier/Fliyer piano Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata 1ST ED

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DANIEL SHAFRAN - cello YAKOV FLIERE - Piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19



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ULTRA RARE LIGHTHOUSE 10" 33 RPM !!!
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Daniil Shafran was born in Petrograd (later Leningrad, then Saint Petersburg) in 1923. Even from before his birth he was surrounded by music.
His mother and father were music students when he was born. Shafran's first public performance was at the age of 10, at one of the Conservatory concerts, where he played two technically demanding works by
David Popper: 'Spinning Song' and 'Elfentanz'. His orchestral debut was a year later, when 11, when he played Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations
with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under the visiting British conductor, Albert Coates. At the age of 14, Shafran entered the 1937 USSR All-Union Competition for Violinists and Cellists, for young musicians from all Soviet states.
Although strictly he was below the qualifying age limit, he was allowed to enter as an unofficial contestant and carried off the first prize. His age,
"filigree virtuosity and poetic appearance had caused something of a sensation" and Shafran achieved national prominence. Shafran was also
awarded a magnificent Antonio Amati cello as part of the prize. Musical activity in Leningrad was heavily impacted by the Second World War. Among many other activities in Russia, the All-Union competition
was suspended for 7 years. Only in 1945 was it held again, when the war in Russia was over, and this time the winner was the young Mstislav
Rostropovich. By 1949, "Shafran’s supremacy as the country's leading young cellist was now being challenged by Rostropovich, four years his
junior." Shafran and Rostropovich both entered the 1949 competition at the Festival of Democratic Youth, Budapest, and they tied for the first prize.
David Oistrakh, a jury member at the competition, wrote "both cellists are complete masters of cello sound. Their light virtuosity and elegant
technique should be the envy of many violinists". When Shafran graduated from the Conservatory in 1950, he was now 27 years old, and Rostropovich 23. For almost a decade, they stood out as the
two outstanding young Russian cellists. "Both had already achieved an extraordinary level of artistry, yet they were temperamentally very different.
Shafran's attention to detail made him pre-eminent in miniature forms: his poetic sensibility and the remarkable palette of tone colours he had at his
disposal suit him to romantic and impressionistic repertoire". Shafran's American debut was in 1960 in Carnegie Hall, at which concert he met Osip Shtrimer, the brother of his teacher. His British premiere was
not till 1964, with concerts in Wigmore Hall and the Royal Festival Hall. He visited Japan several times, and toured Australia. By the time the
Berlin Wall fell, Shafran's concert career was nearing its end.

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Take this chance! Yakov Vladimirovich Flier (Russian: ???? ???????????? ?????; October 21 [O.S. October 8], 1912 – December 18, 1977; last name also spelled Fliere or Fliyer) was a Russian concert pianist and teacher. Flier was born in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Russia. He studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Konstantin Igumnov. By the 1930s he had become one of the most prominent Russian concert pianists. He mainly performed Romantic piano music, although he also played some contemporary music by the Russian composers Dmitry Kabalevsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, German Galynin, Sergei Prokofiev and Rodion Shchedrin. He taught piano for many years at the Moscow Conservatory. His notable students include Rodion Shchedrin, Viktoria Postnikova, Mikhail Pletnev, Lev Vlassenko, Natasha Vlassenko, Mikhaïl Faerman, Bella Davidovich, Regina Shamvili, Shoshana Rudiakov, Mikhail Rudy, Mark Zeltser, Vladimir Feltsman, Samvel Alumian and M?za Rubackyt?. He was a contemporary and sometime rival of Emil Gilels. In the 1960s and 1970s Flier began to perform in Europe. During his concert tour in the USA he performed Sergei Rachmaninoff's Third piano concerto with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein. He died in 1977 in Moscow, aged 65.

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