Bach . Chopin Dina Ugorskaja

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): 15 Inventiones, BWV 772-786:
• 115 Inventiones, BWV 772-786: No. 1 in C Major, BWV 77201:38
• 215 Inventiones, BWV 772-786: No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 77301:34
• 315 Inventiones, BWV 772-786: No. 3 in D Major, BWV 77401:32
• 415 Inventiones, BWV 772-786: No. 4 in D Minor, BWV 77500:39
• 515 Inventiones, BWV 772-786: No. 5 in E flat Major BWV 77601:44
• 615 Inventiones, BWV 772-786: No. 6 in E Major, BWV 77703:28
• 715 Inventiones, BWV 772-786: No. 7 in E Minor, BWV 77802:26
• 815 Inventiones, BWV 772-786: No. 8 in F Major, BWV 77900:52
• 915 Inventiones, BWV 772-786: No. 9 in F Minor, BWV 78005:13
• 1015 Inventiones, BWV 772-786: No. 10 in G Major, BWV 78101:11
• 1115 Inventiones, BWV 772-786: No 11 in G Minor, BWV 78201:25
• 1215 Inventiones, BWV 772-786: No. 12 in A Major, BWV 78301:04
• 1315 Inventiones, BWV 772-786: No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 78401:04
• 1415 Inventiones, BWV 772-786: No. 14 in B flat Major, BWV 78501:13
• 1515 Inventiones, BWV 772-786: No. 15 in B Minor, BWV 78601:49
• Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849): 24 Préludes, Op. 28:
• 1624 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 1 in C Major. Agitato00:36
• 1724 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 2 in A Minor. Lento02:12
• 1824 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 3 in G Major. Vivace00:55
• 1924 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 4 in E Minor. Largo02:02
• 2024 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 5 in D Major. Allegro molto00:36
• 2124 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 6 in B Minor. Lento assai02:02
• 2224 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 7 in A Major. Andantino00:47
• 2324 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 8 in F-Sharp Major. Molto agitato02:07
• 2424 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 9 in E Major. Largo01:21
• 2524 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor. Allegro molto00:31
• 2624 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 11 in B Major. Vivace00:36
• 2724 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor. Presto01:19
• 2824 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 13 in F-Sharp Minor. Lento03:19
• 2924 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 14 in E-Flat Minor. Allegro00:32
• 3024 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 15 in D-Flat Minor. Sostenuto05:31
• 3124 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 16 in B-Flat Minor. Presto con fuoco01:10
• 3224 Préludes, Op. 28: No.17 in A-Flat Major. Allegretto03:03
• 3324 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 18 in F Minor. Allegro molto01:04
• 3424 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 19 in E-Flat Major. Vivace01:26
• 3524 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 20 in C Minor. Largo03:08
• 3624 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 21 in B-Flat Major. Cantabile01:58
• 3724 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 22 in G Minor. Molto agitato00:47
• 3824 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 23 in F Major. Moderato00:59
• 3924 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 24 in D Minor. Allegro appassionata02:34
• Total Runtime01:07:27

Info for Bach . Chopin

J. S. Bach’s Inventions – unfortunately still regarded as mere exercises – have fascinated me since my childhood thanks to their incredibly refined wealth of ideas, particularly when it comes to just two voices, where it is up to the player to discover how able you really have to be in order to master the task.

And standing in contrast to this is one of the most challenging cycles in piano music, in both a musical and a technical sense – Chopin’s Préludes, with their rapid changes between different, and at times highly polarised, feelings and sentiments; a synthesis imbibed with disarming naturalness that makes it almost impossible for a performance to bring out the music itself and not the interpreter.

The tension between the deceptive straightforwardness of Bach and the simplicity required by the complexity of Chopin, for me, makes this an exciting combination.” (Dina Ugorskaja - 1973-2019)

Dina Ugorskaja, piano

Dina Ugorskaja
When she was seven years old, Dina Ugorskaja gave her first public performance in the Philharmonic Hall of her home town of Leningrad (today renamed Saint Petersburg). Born in 1973, she received her first musical instruction from her father, Anatol Ugorski, and from Maria Mekler. She also took voice lessons specialising in early music. From 1980 to 1990 she studied piano and composition at the special music school for gifted children at Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. In the meantime, she continued making public appearances in solo recitals, in chamber music and in piano concertos with orchestra. Her first string quartet, composed when she was fifteen, was premiered in the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Hall. The Ugorski family left Russia in 1990. Dina Ugorskaja pursued her studies at Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin with Prof. Galina Iwanzowa before going on to the Musikhochschule in Detmold, where she studied under Prof. Nerine Barrett and obtained her solo diploma with honours in 2001. She also received important counsel from musicians such as Ruvim Ostrovski, Edith Picht-Axenfeld, Andras Schiff and Hans-Dietrich Klaus.

From 2002 to 2007, Ugorskaja taught at the Musikhochschule in Detmold. She then relocated to Munich, where she lives now.

Dina Ugorskaja made appearances at the festivals of Schwetzingen, Hitzacker, Dijon, Rottweiler, Kassel, the Feldkirch Schubertiad and others. She has made guest appearances in Bayreuth, Berlin, Dortmund, Bielefeld, Cologne Philharmonie, Leipzig Gewandhaus and Stuttgart Liederhalle, performing solo piano concertos with the following orchestras: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (Leipzig), the South West Chamber Orchestra (Pforzheim), the North West German Philharmonic (Herford), the Wurttemberg Philharmonic (Reutlingen), the Lemberg Philharmonia Orchestra (Ukraine), the Vladimir Philharmonic Governor's Symphony Orchestra (Russia) and St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra. She has worked together with conductors of the likes of Ravil Martynov, Vladimir Jurowski, Vladislav Czarnecki, Norichika Limori and Peter Gülke. Chamber music partners have included Hans-Dietrich Klaus (clarinet), Sergio Azzolini (bassoon), Natalia Prishepenko (violin), Anna Lewis (viola), Xenia Jankovic (cello), the Auryn Quartet and Ugorskaja's own father, Anatol Ugorski (piano).

Dina Ugorskaja has made several CD releases. The earlier ones feature works by Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Chopin and Shostakovich, including a joint recording of the Bach and Mozart two-piano concertos with her father Anatol Ugorski. Her recording of the late works of Robert Schumann has been nominated for the 2011 International Classical Music Awards. The most recent releases feature six Beethoven's late piano sonatas; the last Beethoven-CD was nominated for the 2013 German Record Critic's Award.

German classical music magazine Fono Forum recently remarked: 'Dina Ugorskaja's interpretations are particularly credible, thanks to their independence and originality. [...] She applies her own creative fantasy to the music as its unfolds, and she is able to make the rhythm 'breathe' without ever disrespecting what is written in the score.' (Translated by Stanley Hanks)

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