Felix Blumenfeld - Selected Works for Piano

00:00 3 Nocturnes No.1 “Chant“ (Jonathan Powell) 04:20 3 Nocturnes No.2 “Reve“ 09:14 3 Nocturnes No.3 “Vision“ 12:32 Etude Fantasie No.1 (David Blumenthal) 20:28 Etude Fantasie No.2 26:57 Deux Nocturnes Op.6 No.1 (Jouni Suomero) 33:51 Deux Nocturnes Op.6 No.2 Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931) was a Russian Composer. He studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and piano under Fedor Stein between 1881 and 1885. He then taught piano there himself from 1885 until 1918, whilst also serving as conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre until 1911. The Mariinsky saw the premieres of the operas composed by his mentor Rimsky-Korsakov. He was also the conductor at the Russian premiere of Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde. In 1908, he conducted the Paris premiere of Modest Mussorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov. From 1918 to 1922, he was the director of the Music-drama school o