Sergei Babayan

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Sergei Babayan has long been venerated as a "pianist's pianist" whose interpretations combine "quiet beauty and emotional fire" (The Times of London). Celebrated for his solo recitals, chamber concerts, and concerto collaborations with orchestras around the globe, the Armenian American pianist is also one of today's preeminent pedagogues and an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist with a growing and distinguished discography. Bachtrack calls him "one of the greatest pianists of our time." "This is piano playing of the very highest echelon," agrees MusicWeb International. As Canada's Le Devoir concludes, "Babayan is a genius. Period." Over the past season, Babayan performed Rachmaninoff's First Piano Concerto with Naples’s Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo and the same composer’s Third with orchestras including Belgium’s Antwerp Symphony, led by its Chief Conductor, Elim Chan; Maryland’s National Philharmonic at Strathmore; and France’s Orchestre symphonique de l’Opéra de Toulon and Orchestre symphonique de Tours. Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto is similarly prominent in Babayan’s 2024/25 programming, taking him to Poland for performances with the Baltic Philharmonic, Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic, and NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, with which he reprises the work in Dresden. Other orchestral collaborations included Ravel concertos with Italy’s Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, to celebrate the French composer’s 150th anniversary; Mozart’s “Jeunehomme” with Lithuania’s Kremerata Balt

top songs

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Scarlatti: Piano Sonatas

Rachmaninoff: Préludes; Études-Tableaux; Moments musicaux

Messiaen, Carl Vine, Respighi & Ligeti

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Rachmaninoff: 12 Songs, Op. 21: V. Lilacs (Transcr. Rachmaninoff for Solo Piano)

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Verbier Festival - Best of 2014

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Classically Russian

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Rachmaninoff: Suite No. 1 for 2 Pianos, Op. 5 "Fantaisie-tableaux": I. Barcarole

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Pro Piano Records - Label Sampler

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Classical Piano

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Arvo Pärt

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Rachmaninoff - Piano Music

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Minimalism

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