The key to understanding Maria Yudina and her piano style lies in the fact that she was an unorthodox person in an orthodox Communist state. From the very beginning she refused to live a double lifestyle, and from that moment she never separated her music from her religion and her life. With the power of her Christian faith, she represented a resistanse of a single person against the whole evil Communist state, a single person of a generation of the Silver Age of the Russian culture, along with Prokofiev, Sofronitsky, Pasternak, Mandelshtam, Akhmatova and many others, whose aim was to preserve the eternal values of the Russian culture and of the Russian Orthodox faith from the Communist destruction. Photo (left) of Maria Yudina
in the 1920s as a young professor of the Petrograd Conservatoire (photographed by N. Nappelbaum).
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We are happy to bring you THE VERY FIRST SET OF COMPLETE RECORDINGS OF THE GREATEST RUSSIAN PIANIST EVER LIVED
TO ORDER CDs, PLEASE CONTACT US AT maria_yudina@yahoo.com
The set of Yudina`s recordings is divided into Thirty-one volume
Volumes 1-4. Bach, Brahms
Volume 5. Mozart. Piano Concertos K. 466 & K. 488
Volumes 6-9. Beethoven. Sonatas nos. 5, 12, 16, 22, 27, 28, 29 &32. Pian Concerto no. 4, Choral fantasy op. 80
Volumes 10-11. Schubert
Volume 12. Bach, Liszt, Glazunov
Volume 13. Mozart. 1963 Studio Recordings
Volume 14 Schumann, Debussy
Volume 15. Prokofiev, Shostakovich
Volume 16. Musorgsky, Prokofiev
Volume 17. Stravinsky, Hindemith
Volume 18.Jolivet, Hindemith
Volume 19. Mozart. 1951 live recordings
Volume 20. Beethoven, Brahms, Prokofiev . Live 1954 from Moscow
Volumes 21-22 LIve in Kiev, 1954
Volume 23. Tchaikovsky. Concerto no. 1. Scriabin, Preludes. Kochurov, Adagio
Volume 24. Taneyev
Volume 25. Hindemith, Honegger, Prokofiev
Volume 26. Bartok, Stravinsky
Volume 27. Maria Yudina and Lev Mikhailov, clarinet.
Volume 28. Bach, Well-tempered Clavichord, volume 2 (excerpts)
Volume 29. Beethoven, Hindemith
Volume 30. Yudina and Naum Zaidel, flute. Prokofiev, Hindemith
Volume 31. Bach, Medtner
Volume 32. Mozart. Sonatas. Stravinsky. Duetto Concertante (victor Pikaizen, violin), Sonata for Two Pianos (w. Marina Drozdova)
Volume 33. Hindemith. Sonatas for Double Bass (Rodion Azarkhin) and For French Horn (Vitaly Buyanovsky)
LISTEN TO SOME FREE SAMPLES FROM THIS COLLECTION
From The Yudina Legacy,Volume Three: Bach Concerto no. 1 in D minor All-Union Radio Symphony Orchestra. Kurt Sanderling, conductor. Live October 6, 1956 from the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory
First Movement click here
Second Movement click here
Third Movement click here
From The Yudina Legacy, volume 21
Mozart. Lacrymosa from Requiem (transcribed by Maria Yudina`s fiancee, Kirill Saltykov (1914-1939) CLICKHERE
From The Yudina Legacy, Volume 5: Mozart. Concerto no. 23 in A major for Piano and Orchestra K. 488 (1943) The recording was made overnight upon Josef Stalin's personal request. The only surviving copy has been retrieved from his personal archive in Moscow.
1st mt CLICKHERE
2nd mt CLICK HERE
3rd mt CLICK HERE
Sonata in C minor, Finale (1943) CLICK HERE
Mozart. Concerto no. 20 in D minor K. 466 All-Union radio Symphony Orchestra. Sergei Gorchakov, conductor (1948)
1st mt click here
2nd mt click here
3rd mt click here
From The Yudina Legacy, Volume 13: Mozart. Sonata in A major K. 331 (recorded in Moscow, 1963)
1st mt CLICK HERE
2nd mt part one CLIK HERE
2nd mt part two CLICK HERE
2nd mt part three CLICK HERE
Finale. Rondo all turca CLICK HERE
From The Yudina Legacy Volume 6: Beethoven. Concerto no. 4 op. 58. Leningrad Philharmonic, Kurt Sanderling, Conductor, recorded in 1948
1st movement CLICK HERE
2nd movement CLICK HERE
3rd movement CLICK HERE
From The Yudina Legacy, Volume 29:
Beethoven. Concerto no. 5 "Emperor" op. 73. All-Union Radio Symphony Orchestra. Nathan Rachlin, concductor. Live December 1950
1st movement CLICK HERE
2nd movement CLICK HERE
3rd movement CLICK HERE
From The Yudina Legacy, Volume 10:
Schubert. Sonata no. 21 (rec. August 13, 1947)
1st movement click here
2nd movement click here
From The Yudina Legacy, Volume 4:
Brahms. Intermezzo op.117 no.1 click here
Intermezzo op. 117 no. 2 click here
Intermezzo op. 117 no.3 click here
Intermezzo op.118 no.1 click here
Intermezzo op. 118 no. 2 click here
Intermezzo op. 118 no. 4 click here
Intermezzo op. 118 no. 6 click here
Rhapsody op. 79 no. 2 clck here
From The Yudina Legacy, Volume 25:
Prokofiev. Sonata for Cello and Piano op. 119 Lev Evgrafov, Cello. Maria Yudina, piano recorded in 1966
First movement click here
Second movement click here
Third Movement click here
Honegger. Sonata for Viola and Piano (Fedor Druzhinin) Rec. March-April 1959 (LP transfer)This recording is different from that live released on CD! click here
Hindemith. Sonata for Viola and Piano
1st movement click here
2nd and 3rd movements click here
From The Yudina Legacy, Volume 12:
Bach Two Preludes and Fugues from WTC II
Fis-dur click here
gis-moll click here
From The Yudina Legacy, Volume 32 -NEW!-
Stravinsky. DUetto Concertante for Violin and Piano. Victor Pikaizen, Violin. Maria Yudina, piano.
1st movement click here
2nd movement click here
3rd movement click here
4th movement click here
5th movement click here
From The Yudina Legacy, Volume 26:
Bartok. Sonata For Two Pianos And Percussion. Recorded in 1961-1962. Victor Derevyanko, 2nd piano. Ruslan Nikulin,xylophone, Valentin Snegirev, percussion.
Third Movement click here
Stravinsky. Concerto For Two Pianos . Maria Yudina, Victor Derevyanko 3.Four Variations. Prelude and Fugueclick here
