Tag Archives: Andrei Gavrilov

Hélène Grimaud is a pianist who defies womanly stereotypes. Her preferred repertory continues to be Brahms, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Schumann, and Liszt, not really the much less muscular music of Mozart (which she didn’t perform until she was 21 or record until 2010), Poulenc, or Chopin. Grimaud’s lush audio and sweeping …

A protégé of the fantastic Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter, Andrei Gavrilov won the 1974 Tchaikovsky Competition, uncovering himself as, in what of Harold Schonberg, “a virtuoso, sometimes an explosive one, that has Horowitz intuition that aren’t yet in order.” Schonberg, reflecting a lot of the general sense about Gavrilov, also …