The Ukrainian-born pianist Antonii Baryshevskyi is a multi-award winner, including First Prize at the Fourth Enescu International Piano Competition in Bucharest in 1999, the Fourth Performer-Composer International Piano Competition in St Petersburg in 2004 and the 51st Premio Jaén International Piano Competition in Spain in 2009. The music chosen for his début Naxos recital features two of the most fiendishly difficult piano works of the twentieth century, Rachmaninov’s Piano Sonata No. 2 and the Three Movements from Petrushka by Stravinsky, as well as the specially commissioned competition work, Orión, by the young Spanish composer Daniel Mateos, an exploration of the enigmas of the universe and the constellation Orion.