J.S.Bach: Keyboard Works
Chopin: 4 Ballades

Victoria Mushkatkol
 PIANO

MS1057   ~   $12.95

"[She produces a] gorgeous tone...one of the best accounts I've heard of JS Bach's French Overture in B minor...She takes the opening of Ballade No.2 ...as softly and beautifully as we are likely to hear"  - CLASSICAL CD REVIEW

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As an acclaimed soloist and chamber musician, Victoria Mushkatkol has been praised by critics for her "incendiary, flawless, outstanding" performances. She brings "warmth, color, and the intensity of the Russian piano school to every stage on which she performs...". Hailing from Odessa on the Black Sea, Ms. Mushkatkol made her concert debut with the Kiev Philharmonic at the age of ten. After graduating from the Kiev Music School for Gifted Children, she went on to study at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with professor Vladimir Nielsen, one of Russia's most eminent piano teachers, graduating from the Conservatory with honors. Since moving to the United States, Victoria has established herself as an international performer, appearing in recital and in chamber music concerts through out the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific. She has collaborated with such eminent musicians as Evgeny Bushkov, Karen Buranskas, Andre Emilianoff, and the Leontovich, Veronika and Amernet String Quartets. Currently Ms. Mushkatkol resides in New York and is on the faculty of The Juilliard School's Pre-College Division.

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Johann Sebastian Bach
Overture in B minor, BWV 831
Ouverture; Courante; Gavotte;
Passepied; Sarabande;
Bourree; Gigue; Echo

Frederic Chopin
Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op. 23
Ballade No.2 in F major, Op. 38
Ballade No.3 in A-flat, Op. 47
Ballade No.4 in F minor Op. 52