SCHERBAKOV, KONSTANTIN (b 1963 )

Hailed by critics at the Lucerne Festival as a modern Rachmaninov and the triumphant winner of the first Rachmaninov Competition in Moscow in 1983, Konstantin Scherbakov launched his international career in 1990 at the XXth Chamber Music Festival of Asolo, where he performed the complete Rachmaninov works for piano solo in four recitals, to the manifest approval of Sviatoslav Richter, who listened to his performance.

Born in the Siberian town of Barnaul, Konstantin Scherbakov made his début there at the age of eleven as soloist in Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto. Soon after he moved to Moscow to continue his musical education at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with the legendary teacher Lev Naumov, whose assistant he later became. After winning an array of prizes at prestigious international competitions in Montreal, Bolzano, Rome and Zurich, he has performed with all the leading orchestras of the former Soviet Union and played recitals in more than a hundred cities.

Since 1992 Konstantin Scherbakov has lived in Switzerland. In addition to recitals, orchestral performances and tours all over the world, and televised and broadcast performances throughout Europe, his concert activity has brought participation in major festivals, such as Frankfurt, Bregenz, Bodensee, Luzern, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Bad Kissingen, Schubertiade Feldkirch and Salzburg, among others. Boasting a phenomenal repertoire of some fifty concertos and a similar number of recital programmes, Konstantin Scherbakov has recorded music from Bach to Strauss and Scriabin and from Beethoven to Medtner and Respighi, with a current commitment to record for Marco Polo the complete piano music of Leopold Godowsky.

His acclaimed contribution to the Naxos Liszt piano music series includes critically acclaimed performances of Liszt’s transcriptions of Beethoven’s Symphonies (Naxos 8.557366), of which the Ninth Symphony was awarded the German Critics’ Prize 2005, as well as his recording of Godowsky’s Sonata in E minor for Marco Polo (8.223899), which was awarded the German Critics’ Prize in December 2001. Scherbakov’s recording of the 24 Preludes and Fugues of Shostakovich for Naxos (8.554745-46) received the Classical Award 2001 at Cannes. In August 2005 Scherbakov played the cycle in two recitals at the Salzburg Festival to a very enthusiastic critical acclaim.

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ADAGIO CHILLOUT	8.556783
BEETHOVEN: Diabelli Variations	8.554372
FRANCK / RAVEL / RESPIGHI : Piano Concertos	8.554679
GODOWSKY: Piano Music, Vol. 1 - Airs of the 18th Century / 3 Pieces / 4 Poems	8.223793
GODOWSKY: Piano Music, Vol. 2 - Transcriptions of Violin Sonatas by J. S. Bach	8.223794
GODOWSKY: Piano Music, Vol. 3 - Baroque Transcriptions and Settings	8.223795
GODOWSKY: Piano Music, Vol. 4 - Triakontameron	8.223898
GODOWSKY: Piano Music, Vol. 5 - Piano Sonata in E Minor	8.223899
GODOWSKY: Piano Music, Vol. 6 - Schubert Transcriptions	8.225187
GODOWSKY: Piano Music, Vol. 7 - Piano Transcriptions of Bach Cello Suites Nos. 2, 3 and 5	8.225267
GODOWSKY: Piano Music, Vol. 8 - Java Suite / Wine, Women and Song	8.225274
LISZT: Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 (Transcriptions) (Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 18)	8.555354
LISZT: Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5 (Transcriptions) (Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 15)	8.550457
LISZT: Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 4 and 6 (Transcriptions) (Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 19)	8.557170
LISZT: Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 (Transcriptions) (Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 23)	8.557856
LISZT: Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (Transcription) (Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 21)	8.557366
LYAPUNOV: 12 Etudes d'Execution Transcendante, Op. 11	8.223491
MEDTNER: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Piano Quintet	8.553390
MEDTNER: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3	8.553359
NAXOS 15TH ANNIVERSARY CD	8.555964
NAXOS 20TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT (NTSC)	2.110227
Polish Heart (The)	8.554774
RACHMANINOV (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552113-14
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3	6.110013
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3	5.110013
RACHMANINOV: Piano Sonata No. 2 / Variations on a Theme of Chopin / Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3	8.554669
RESPIGHI: Concerto in Modo Misolidio / Concerto a Cinque	8.553366
RESPIGHI: Piano Concerto in A Minor / Toccata / Fantasia Slava	8.553207
RESPIGHI: Piano Music	8.553704
SCARLATTI, D.: Keyboard Sonatas (Complete), Vol. 7	8.554842
SCRIABIN: Piano Concerto / Prometheus	8.550818
SHOSTAKOVICH (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552129-30
SHOSTAKOVICH: 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87	8.554745-46
SHOSTAKOVICH: Dmitry Shostakovich - A Portrait (WHITEHOUSE)	8.558188-89
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Sonata No. 1 / 24 Preludes, Op. 34	8.555781
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Sonata No. 2 / The Limpid Stream (piano transcription)	8.570092
TCHAIKOVSKY (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552117-18
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Concert Fantasia	8.557824
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3	5.110051
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3	6.110051
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3	8.557257