Movements from Miroirs Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
1 No. 2:
Oiseaux tristes
2 No. 4:
Alborada del gracioso
3 No. 5:
La vallée des cloches
Preludes from Twenty-Four Preludes, Op. 34 Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
4 Prelude No. 1 in C major
5 Prelude No. 2 in A minor
6 Prelude No. 5 in D major
7 Prelude No. 7 in A major
8 Prelude No. 20 in C minor
9 Prelude No. 24 in D minor
10 Fantasia on Two Themes from Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro'
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) [edited F. Busoni]
11 Allegro in B flat 'Sophie und Constanza' K400 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor
Dmitri Shostakovich (No. 12 from Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87)
12 Prelude
13 Fugue
14 Snapshots Thea Musgrave (b. 1928)
15 La valse Maurice Ravel [transcribed M. Ravel]

23-year-old Oxana Shevchenko from Kazhakstan made an extraordinary emergence as an artist of the first rank when a distinguished international jury awarded her first prize in the 2010 Scottish International Piano Competition. Commissioned as part of her first prize, this recording is Oxana’s debut disc and reveals an extraordinary command of structure, rhythmic dynamism and sheer pianistic exuberance. Works by Mozart, Liszt, Shostakovich and Ravel feature in a programme full of highly pictorial musical genres.

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Winner of the 2010 Scottish International Piano Competition