Boris Goltz was one of the most promising students at the Leningrad Conservatory in the 1930s; Vladimir Sofronitsky was one of Goltz's classmates in Leonid Nikolayev's piano course and also made the first recording of Goltz's music in about 1938. With the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa, Goltz conscripted into the Soviet military and fell during the siege of Leningrad in March 1942, aged only 28. Heretofore, the historical Sofronitsky performance appears to have been the only piano work of Goltz to appear on record; ...
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Boris Goltz was one of the most promising students at the Leningrad Conservatory in the 1930s; Vladimir Sofronitsky was one of Goltz's classmates in Leonid Nikolayev's piano course and also made the first recording of Goltz's music in about 1938. With the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa, Goltz conscripted into the Soviet military and fell during the siege of Leningrad in March 1942, aged only 28. Heretofore, the historical Sofronitsky performance appears to have been the only piano work of Goltz to appear on record; pianist Sergei Podobedov brings us the rest of this slight feast in Music & Arts' Boris Goltz: Complete Works for Solo Piano."Complete" means Goltz' Scherzo in E minor and his set of 24 Preludes, Op. 2 -- the Preludes date from 1934-1935, and the Scherzo anywhere from between 1934 and 1940. In a general sense, his work can be seen as an extension of the post-romantic tradition exemplified by Rachmaninoff and Medtner though in the specifics there are plenty of connections to contemporary...
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