Igor Pikayzen

Basil Vendryes, Igor Pikayzen, William David – Paul Juon: Chamber Music for Viola (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:48 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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Paul Juon was born in Moscow, of Swiss parents, in 1872, studying there with Arensky and Taneyev; Rachmaninov, a fellow student at the Moscow Conservatoire, dubbed him ‘the Russian Brahms’. Woldemar Bargiel, Clara Schumann’s half-brother, was his main teacher at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin before Juon himself became a member of the staff. There are indeed echoes of Brahms in Juon’s early music but there is also a fondness for Russian folksong and a mastery of counterpoint, which all feed into his urgent, late-Romantic lyricism.

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