Anatol ugorski bio

Leningrad-born Anatol Ugorski has emerged from the eclipse of his motherland's shadow. He has signed his first recording with Deutsche Grammophon, recording works by Beethoven (Diabelli Variations), Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition), and Stravinsky (Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka).

Here is a pianist who can cater to the individual piece's character: He plays Stravinsky with the crystalline hammering technique of Horowitz and caresses the largo expressivity of Fur Elise with the softness of Gilels.

Ugorski, born in 1942, spent all of his life until 1990 in Leningrad, where he was assigned the piano as his instrument by the examining board of the music school for children.

Ugorski wonders even today whether it was only by chance that he came into contact with the instrument. His talent was imminent, but his creativity with regard to technique drew heavy criticism.

When Heinrich Neuhaus the great piano teacher of Gilels and Richter, heard Ugorski play at th