Some remained close to their original form, were possibly transposed. Some pieces appeared as stand-alone movements. Each composer was presented in a separate segment. It also was the theme in this concert, where she chose pieces by four baroque composers. This has become the topic of her latest CD. These people fascinated her when they made pieces seamlessly flow into each other, following their momentary intuition and imagination. The picture above shows the cover of her latest recording, featuring music that she presented in this recital: HypersuitesĪpart from the classical and Jazz influences through her parents (along with her faible for improvisation), there was another trigger that led to the concept of “Hypersuites”. Today, she is pursuing an international career as concert pianist. During these studies, just about every year she won prizes at competitions. Towards the turn of the century, Marina Baranova moved to Germany, to take up studies with Vladimir Krainev (1944 – 2011) at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media). At age 11, she started winning prizes at competitions. She was admitted to a music school in her home town at age 5. Needless to say that she was a very talented child at the piano. This has apparently formed her musical mind from very early childhood on. On one of the instruments, her mother was teaching classical piano, in the other, her father was giving Jazz lessons. As she told the audience, there were two pianos in adjacent rooms. The Ukrainian pianist Marina Baranova (*1981, see also Wikipedia for information) grew up in Kharkiv, in a small apartment. This was a rather unusual concert, for once! Here’s another piano recital in the context of “ Musik an der ETH“, held in the venerable Semper-Aula in the main building of the ETH in Zurich. Le carillon de Cithére - Muséte de Taverni.
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