"A few years ago, I received an email from Russia from a music lover I had never met before. His name was Alexander Plekhanov. He knew me from my CDs of works by persecuted composers and wanted to draw my attention to a Ukrainian-Jewish composer I had never heard of - Matvey Gozenpud. Some of his compositions were attached to the e-mail. I was busy with other projects at the time and neglected to reply to him. In fact, some time passed before I remembered the email with the scores and played through them on the piano - and was thrilled. I was particularly taken with Gozenpud's cycle of 12 preludes." (Jascha Nemtsov)