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Gaponenko, Elena

The rare dual talent of the pianist and cellist Elena Gaponenko was readily apparent at an early stage: it was at the age of four that she began playing both instruments. Elena Gaponenko considers herself a kind of translator through whom music flows; she makes the sonic essence of the coded messages contained within it accessible to the public. She herself designates the stage as her calling, and feels the greatest fulfillment when the music appears as “pure music” and technical realization is utterly subjected to the musical content. She writes: “Although different cultural tendencies are reflected here, the musical thinking of these pieces is based on the heterogeneous but unmistakeably Russian fundamental intonation. This music, mostly unknown to Western listeners (perhaps with the exception of Scriabin) is gripping in its visions and, at the same time, moving in its intimacy and authenticity.”

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