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MARIA GAMBARIAN
contemporary Armenian pianist



Maria Gambarian studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Neuhaus, Lev Oborin and Konstantin Igumnov.

Many of the recordings offered below are very recent and clearly not representative of the interpretive pianist at the top of her form, thought her 2011 Chopin Études show she still has the chops.  But her 1972 recording of the Schubert-Liszt "Gretchen am Spinnrade" might be the most beautiful one I know.  And her stunning abilities as a pianist can be still heard in her 1997 performance of Beethoven's "Tempest".



Bach  Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903




Beethoven  Piano Sonata 17 in D minor, Op 31~2

01:42i Largo. Allegro
08:17ii
Adagio
15:16
➢ iii Allegretto

Live in 1997




Moscow Recital  -  15 December 2002


BEETHOVEN 
02:05
➢ iii Allegretto from Piano Sonata 17 in D minor, Op 31~2 "Tempest"

SCHUBERT-LISZT
12:12
Schubert-Liszt  "Der Leierman"
15:07Schubert-Liszt  "Gretchen am Spinnrade"
22:42Schubert  ???

Live in 2002




Schubert-Liszt  "Gretchen am Spinnrade"

recorded in 1972




Prague Recital Encores  -  21 November 2012

Chopin  Mazurka in A minor, Op 17~4
Chopin  Waltz 6 in D major, Op 64~1 "Minute"
Vartapet Komitas (1869-1935)  "Little Brook" (excerpt - arr. Gambarian)




Chopin  Études, Op 25

1 Allegro sostenuto in A major
02:272 Presto in F minor
04:163 Allegro in F major
06:054 Agitato in A minor
07:545 Vivace in E minor
11:346 Allegro in G minor

live in 2011




Schumann  7 Träumerei from Kinderszenen, Op 15
Chopin 
Waltz 6 in D major, Op 64~1 "Minute"




Schumann  Variations on a theme by Clara Wieck, Op 14

live in 2011




Komitas  Two Songs

"I cannot live without mountains"
"Water stream"




For those of you who enjoy murder mysteries, here is my first with a strong musical polemic as background

Murder in the House of the Muse

which is also available as an audiobook.



And this is the more recently published second mystery in the series:

Murder Follows the Muse



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