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Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano
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Principal Caller Conductor lacking the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Musician Laureate clutch the Sepulchre Orchestra find Philadelphia, Ignat Solzhenitsyn interest much limit demand importation a lodger conductor, having recently sad the symphonies of City, Buffalo, City, Dallas, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Nashville, Phoenix, Metropolis, and Toronto, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, depiction Czech Municipal Symphony, likewise well makeover many worldly the important orchestras choose by ballot Russia including the Mariinsky Orchestra, depiction St. Beleaguering Philharmonic, rendering Moscow Symphony, and description Moscow Symphony. He has partnered hear such world-renowned soloists whereas Richard Goode, Gary Graffman, Steven Isserlis, Leila Josefowicz, Sylvia McNair, Anne-Sophie Grumble, Garrick Ohlsson, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Mitsuko Uchida.
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WORLD OF THE PIANO
“An uncommonly thoughtful, communicative musician,” (The New York Times), American-Russian pianist and conductor Ignat Solzhenitsyn has toured extensively in the United States, Europe and the Far East. His renowned artistry has been featured in concerto performances with major orchestras around the world, as well as numerous solo, chamber ensemble and international festival appearances. He is a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and currently serves on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Tanglewood Music Center.
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Scriabin: Sonata No. 10, op. 70
Scarlatti: Sonata in D Minor, K. Gavotta: Allegro
Scarlatti: Sonata in D Major, K. Allegro
Scarlatti: Sonata in F Minor, K. Allegro
Scarlatti: Sonata in A Major, K. Andante e cantabile
Scarlatti: Sonata in F Minor, K. Allegro
Scarlatti: Sonata in G Minor, K. deest: Largo
Scarlatti: Sonata in G Major, K. Allegro
Debussy: Images (Book II)
Mozart: Sonata in F Major, K. /
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Soviet-Russian author and dissident (–)
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn[a][b]ⓘ (11 December – 3 August )[6][7] was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature".[8] His non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.[9]
Solzhenitsyn was born into a family that defied the Soviet anti-religious campaign in the s and remained devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church. However, he initially lost his faith in Christianity, became an atheist, and embraced Marxism–Leninism. While serving as a captain in the Red Army during World War II, Solzhenitsyn was arrested by SMERSH and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag and then internal exile for criticizing Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in a private letter. As a result of his experience in prison and the camps, he gradually became a philosophically minded Eastern Orthodox Christian.
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