Nicholas Walker

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He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won all the major awards for both piano and composition, and subsequently at the Moscow Conservatoire. While still a student in Moscow, he won the First Newport International Piano Competition and has since played with many British Orchestras, including the City of Birmingham and National Symphony Orchestras, the Royal Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, the London Festival and New Queen's Hall Orchestras, the Philharmonia and the BBC National Symphony Orchestra of Wales. As well as performing in all the major London concert halls, he has played in North and South America, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Scandinavia, Australia and Russia. He has recorded for BBC Radio 3, Cirrus, ASV, BMG Arte Nova, Chandos, Toccata Classics and Naxos Grand Piano. Equally at home in chamber music, he is sought after as an imaginative and sensitive accompanist, and his CD with Lydia Mordkovitch of Russian violin music was Daily Telegraph CD of the week. Although Walker's performances of Beethoven have brought him special acclaim, and his performances of the lyrical and late romantic piano music have also been singled out for the highest praise, it is for his championing of the cause of the neglected leader of 'The Mighty Handful', Mili Alexei Balakirev, that he is best known. Described by David Murray in the Financial Times as 'the nearest thing to a natural Balakirev performer', Walker's two discs of Balakirev piano music which he made

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Balakirev: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 5

Balakirev: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 6

Balakirev: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 4

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Classical Music The Piano

Balakirev: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2

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Balakirev: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 3 – Mazurkas & Other Works

Balakirev: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1

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Bellatrix

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100 Piano Classics (Disk 1/5)

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Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals

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Beethoven Piano Sonata

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Beethoven Piano Sonatas

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