VICTOR MERZHANOV - CHOPIN. Mazurka in a minor, op. 17, no. 4

Victor Merzhanov, piano Chopin. Mazurka in a minor, op. 17, no. 4. Recorded at the Hall of Rachmaninov Music College in Tambov, Russia on November 18, 1994. Victor Merzhanov was once called by a Swedish critic “a descendant of that line of great Russian-born pianists that began with Ziloty and Rachmaninov“. Merzhanov graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire with distinction and his name was inscribed in its marble wall along with those of Scryabin and Rachmaninov. During his career he gave more than 1500 recitals and concerts recitals with such conductors as Zanderling, Kondrashin, Gauk, Rozhdestvensky, Temirkanov, Svetlanov and many others. Merzhanov teaches at Moscow Conservatory since 1947. Выдающийся русский пианист Виктор Мержанов, о котором шведский критик писал как о “достойном потомке великих пианистов, рожденных Россией, начиная с Зилоти и Рахманинова“.За 50 лет сценической жизни он сыграл более 1500 концертов, в том числе с т