Boris Giltburg
The Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg has combined training in the core Russian and Western repertory with fresh efforts to expose this repertory to audiences outside the usual classical spheres. Giltburg was born in Moscow in 1984, and his family joined the exodus of Russian Jews to Israel soon after. His first piano teacher, beginning at age five, was his mother. In Israel he studied with the veteran Tel Aviv pianist and teacher Arie Vardi. That pedagogue was a fixture of international prize juries, and Giltburg was schooled in clean reading that appealed to those juries: he took second prize (and the audience prize) at the Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv in 2011 and won first prize two years later at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium, a major honor. Even prior to the former honor, Giltburg had made his debut at the BBC Proms, and these honors propelled him to concerto appearances with the likes of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony, Danish Radio Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and, in the U.S., the Nashville and Baltimore Symphonies. After a disc of Romantic piano sonatas for the Orchid label in 2015, he signed that year with the Naxos label and has recorded Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, and Schumann there, as well as an album of Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82; Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 83; and Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op. 84, innovatively cast as the "War Sonatas." Vardi's orientation toward a broader public -- he was well known for his television programs introducing classical repertory -- has been reflected in his student's approach: Giltburg maintains a blog devoted to nonspecialist listeners and uses his own photography in many of the graphics associated with his work.© James Manheim /TiVo Read more
The Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg has combined training in the core Russian and Western repertory with fresh efforts to expose this repertory to audiences outside the usual classical spheres. Giltburg was born in Moscow in 1984, and his family joined the exodus of Russian Jews to Israel soon after. His first piano teacher, beginning at age five, was his mother. In Israel he studied with the veteran Tel Aviv pianist and teacher Arie Vardi. That pedagogue was a fixture of international prize juries, and Giltburg was schooled in clean reading that appealed to those juries: he took second prize (and the audience prize) at the Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv in 2011 and won first prize two years later at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium, a major honor. Even prior to the former honor, Giltburg had made his debut at the BBC Proms, and these honors propelled him to concerto appearances with the likes of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony, Danish Radio Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and, in the U.S., the Nashville and Baltimore Symphonies. After a disc of Romantic piano sonatas for the Orchid label in 2015, he signed that year with the Naxos label and has recorded Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, and Schumann there, as well as an album of Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82; Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 83; and Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op. 84, innovatively cast as the "War Sonatas." Vardi's orientation toward a broader public -- he was well known for his television programs introducing classical repertory -- has been reflected in his student's approach: Giltburg maintains a blog devoted to nonspecialist listeners and uses his own photography in many of the graphics associated with his work.
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 & Études-tableaux, Op. 33
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 8 Sep 2017
4 étoiles ClassicaGramophone Editor's ChoiceThe young Russian-Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg is bidding to step in as the inheritor of the long line of passionately Romantic Russian pianism, and ...
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Shostakovich: Piano Concertos 1 & 2, String Quartet No.8
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 13 Jan 2017
Le Choix de France MusiqueDiapason d'orThis release by the Russian-Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg stands out from the host of other recordings of Shostakovich's piano concertos by virtue of ...
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Brahms: Quintets Opp. 34 & 111
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Supraphon a.s. on 13 May 2022
When I can’t be the only one who has the Pavel Haas Quartet’s magnificent Dvořák quintets collaboration with Boris Giltburg and Pavel Nikl still ringi ...
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Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux Op. 39, Moments musicaux
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 29 Apr 2016
Gramophone Record of the MonthBoris Giltburg's 2016 release on Naxos consists of two sets of piano pieces by Sergey Rachmaninov, the Études-tableaux, Op. 39 (1916-1917), and the Mo ...
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 - Variations on a Theme of Corelli
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 11 May 2018
Gramophone Editor's ChoiceWhile Israeli-Russian pianist Boris Giltburg’s career is taking off all over the world, he has felt very close to Belgium ever since he won first priz ...
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 5 & 0
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 11 Mar 2022
These works share the common key of E-flat major but represent two very different stages in the composer’s life. The Piano Concerto No. 0, WoO 4, writ ...
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Liszt: Piano Works
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 11 Jan 2019
Russian pianist Boris Giltburg gravitates toward the pure virtuoso tradition of the 19th and early 20th centuries. As such, he's the subject of compar ...
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Beethoven 32, Vol. 5: Piano Sonatas Nos. 16-18
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 6 Nov 2020
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Beethoven 32, Vol. 3: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8-11
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 4 Sep 2020
Boris Giltburg has set out to study and film all of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas by the end of 2020. The project started as a personal exploration, dr ...
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Beethoven 32, Vol. 4: Piano Sonatas Nos. 12-15
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 16 Oct 2020
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Beethoven 32, Vol. 7: Piano Sonatas Nos. 23-26
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 8 Jan 2021
The great Beethovenian journey of Boris Giltburg continues on Naxos ...
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Beethoven 32, Vol. 6: Piano Sonatas Nos. 19-22
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 4 Dec 2020
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Beethoven 32, Vol. 9: Piano Sonatas Nos. 30-32
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 23 Apr 2021
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Rachmaninoff: 24 Préludes
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 12 Apr 2019
Although he now lives in Israel and was mostly trained there, pianist Boris Giltburg is a representative of the pure Russian school -- powerful, brill ...
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Beethoven 32, Vol. 1: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 3 Jul 2020
A long time ago, record companies would call upon the great Beethovenian musicians of the time to come and record their favourite works from his reper ...
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Beethoven 32, Vol. 8: Piano Sonatas Nos. 27-29
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 5 Mar 2021
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Beethoven: Works for Piano
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 11 Oct 2019
Beethoven’s first two piano concertos share an abundance of lyric and virtuosic qualities. Concerto No. 1 in C major is expansive and richly orchestra ...
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Beethoven 32, Vol. 2: Piano Sonatas Nos. 4-7
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 7 Aug 2020
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Schumann: Carnaval, Davidsbündlertänze & Papillons
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 3 Feb 2015
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Prokofiev : War Sonatas
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Orchid Classics on 3 Sep 2012
Gramophone AwardSergey Prokofiev's so-called War Sonatas weren't originally given that title, and the first of them was premiered by the composer in 1940, before the ...
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 21 & 32
Boris Giltburg
Classical - Released by Naxos on 2 Oct 2015
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