Alexey Zuev

• Sonate für Klavier; Klaviersonate fis-moll; Apollon musagete (arr. für Klavier); Histoire du Soldat-Suite (arr. für Klavier); Chant du Rossignol (arr. für Klavier); L'Oiseau de Feu (arr. für Klavier); Pulcinella (arr. für Klavier); Präludium für Jazz Ensemble (arr. für Klavier); Mavra-Ouvertüre (arr. für Klavier); Ragtime für 11 Instrumente (arr. für Klavier); Chor aus Boris Godunow von M. Mussorgsky (arr. für Klavier); Serenade A-Dur; Piano-Rag-Music; Fragment aus der Symphonie für Bläser; Circus-Polka; Valse pour les enfant; Jeu de cartes (arr. für Klavier); Le Baiser de la Fee (arr. für Klavier); 2 Sketches for a Sonata; Tarantella; Scherzo; Walzer & Polka aus "Trois pieces faciles pour piano a quatre mains, main gauche facile"; Souvenir d'une marche boche; Nr. 4 aus "Berceuses du chat"; Marsch aus "Renard"; Les cinq doigts; Quatre Etudes pour piano op. 7; 3 Sätze aus Petruschka

Alexey Zuev has a very special relationship with Stravinsky’s music. From the age of seven, it entered his musical universe like a premonition, when he unknowingly ‘composed’ a piece that bore astonishing similarities to Petrushka. Five years later, he discovered the ‘real’ Stravinsky and his music never left him.

At the current stage of his career, it was an obvious choice for him to embark on this large-scale recording adventure: recording the complete piano works of the composer who has shaped him so much musically. A veritable marathon of recordings was then almost miraculously put in place, despite the complications presented by the pandemic.

The 5 discs that result from this formidable journey contain, among other things, a series of arrangements and transcriptions for piano made by the composer himself that have never been recorded and have even remained completely unknown. This is a significant discovery that sheds new light on this aspect of Stravinsky’s work.

Produced with the support of the Foundation Igor Stravinsky, Stravinsky Family Fund & Kira A. Princess of Prussia Foundation, the boxed set is remarkably illustrated with previously unpublished photographs that immerse the listener in the world of those years of creative experimentation and innovation that made this music what it is today.