Scriabin - 5 Preludes Op 16 - IGOR ZHUKOV

ALEXANDER SCRIABIN - FIVE PRELUDES Op. 16 IGOR ZHUKOV - Piano (Bechstein) Prelude No 1 in B Major (at 2:50 ) Prelude No 2 in G-sharp Minor (at 4:20 ) Prelude No 3 in G-flat Major (at 6:55 ) Prelude No 4 in E flat Minor (at 8:09 ) Prelude No 5 in F-sharp Major recorded in 1980 . recorded from STEREO Vinyl LP made in russia by MELODIYA (1982) --- Igor Mikhailovich Zhukov (Born 1936) : pianist, conductor and sound engineer. Igor Michailovich Zhukov was born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1936 but his family moved to Moscow in the following year. Four years later, they were evacuated to Vyatka (then known as Kirov) as a result of the second world war. After the war, they returned to Moscow, where Zhukov studied in the Conservatory in 1955, studying first with Emil Gilels and then, in 1955, with Heinrich Neuhaus. He graduated in 1960, having won second prize in the Long-Thibaud Piano Competition in Paris. Apart from a career as a pianist, Zhukov also c