Boris Giltburg - Prokofiev: The War Sonatas

It isn't every day young pianists are compared to the great Richter, but Boris Giltburg has been on more than one occasion. In a sense, you can hear why: his Chopin Ballades at the Wigmore sounded gloriously poetic and free as he pushed and pulled at their tempi. It was old-school, but magical and quite ravishing too. Andrew Mellor, Classic FM Magazine, May 2011Boris Giltburg was selected by the great Zubin Mehta as the winner of the first Pnina Salzman Prize in Israel 2011 and has won many other prestigious prizes, including the top prize and Audience Prize in the Santander International Piano Competition, and second prize and Best Classical Concerto in the Artur Rubinstein Competition.An exceptionally busy and versatile performer, he recently replaced Denis Matsuev at one day's notice performing Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.3 on tour in Germany. This CD is the culmination of many months of constant performance and study of Prokofiev's War Sonatas, and the highly detailed and insightful booklet notes have also been written by Boris.