Maria Veniaminovna Yudina (1899 – 1970) was a Soviet pianist. Yudina's playing was marked by great virtuosity, spirituality, strength and intellectual rigor, with a highly idiosyncratic style and tone. She was an extensively performing performer who performed mainly in recitals or in a chamber ensemble. Her interests included, first of all, the latest Russian and world music: Yudina was the first performer in the USSR of a number of works by A. Berg, P. Hindemith, E. Kshenek, B. Bartok, A. Webern, O. Messiaen, and others.
Maria Yudina was one of the non-conforming artists. Her performance style, as well as her overall philosophical and aesthetical views on the nature of creativity, were very often at loggerheads with the established norms, which provoked a strong reaction in academic musical circles, causing a rejection of her art. Unlike many of her contemporaries, Yudina was critical of the 'romantic' treatment of the piano. The music of Bach, which she admired all her life, has a special place in her legacy. Yudina's immediately recognisable hand (the extremely prominent articulation, the expressiveness of narration, the fervent grandeur of her musical 'speech') gives the preludes and fugues a subjectively powerful character, where the asceticism and meaningfulness of thought combine to form an integral artistic whole.
SCHUMANN, Robert (1810-1856)
1 -8 Fantasy Pieces, Op. 12
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitry Dmitriyevich (1906-1975)
9. Prelude No. 16 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 87
10. Fugue No. 16 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 87
11. Prelude No. 24 in D Minor, Op. 87
12. Fugue No. 24 in D Minor, Op. 87
LUTOSLAWSKI, Witold (1913-1994)
Bukoliki (Bucolics), (1952)
13. I. Allegro vivace
14. II. Allegretto sostenuto
15. III. Allegro molto
16. IV. Andantino
17. V. Allegro marciale
SEROCKI, Kazimierz (1922-1981)
Suite of Preludes (1952)
18. I. Animato
19. II. Affettuoso
20. III. Agitato
21. IV. Teneramente
22. V. Veloce
23. VI. Capriccioso
24. VII. Furioso
CHOPIN, Frédéric François (1810-1849)
25. Nocturne No. 20 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. Posth, B. 49
Maria Yudina, piano
Total time: 67:44
Recorded: (1-8) 1952, Moscow / (9-12) September 28, 1954, Warsaw
(13-17) 55, Moscow /(18-24) 1958, Moscow / Live recording 1950, Moscow
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