LP Classics label celebrates 21 releases
Thu, Dec 04
|Zinc Bar
In its third year now, LP Classics, the recording label founded in 2011 by pianists Vassily Primakov and Natalia Lavrova, looks back on a proud number of releases that connect the historic element with the imminent emergence of young and talented musicians.
Time & Location
Dec 04, 2014, 7:00 PM
Zinc Bar, 82 W 3rd St, New York, NY 10012, USA
About the Event
Pianists and are very much their own acts. But they became close partners when they débuted their Arensky CD and, in the process, founded their own record label, LP Classics, Inc. Since then, they’ve performed as a duo; deepening their friendship which began much earlier, back in 1999, when the two pianists were freshmen at Juilliard. Bringing forgotten gems to the public, as they did with Vera Gornostaeva Vol.1 Chopin disc, a historical recording found and obtained through archived tapes in a Moscow archive, or their Juilliard teacher’s Jerome Lowenthal’s hidden, pianistic treasures, LP Classics’ mission is to reconcile the great past of music tradition, with representing its new talent. “It’s not an easy journey in the classical music world today, especially when it comes to the recording business,” says Primakov. And indeed, in a business where so much of its production is an art form, as much as i…