Lilya Zilberstein

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Lilya Zilberstein experienced her first international success in 1987 when she won the Busoni Competition in Bozen, Italy. Since then, the pianist has been able to establish an international career and belongs to the uncontested piano greats. Lilya Zilberstein has produced legendary CDs in the framework of an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon. A highlight is the benchmark recording with highly-acclaimed playing of Rachmaninow's Piano Concertos with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic. Lilya Zilberstein has compiled a further seven CDs for Deutsche Grammophon. Also, in past years, Lilya Zilberstein has published for K&K Publishing Company several CDs, among them two with live concert recordings on a C. Bechstein concert grand piano featuring works by Beethoven and Brahms. Lilya Zilberstein started to play the piano when she was 5 years old. After 12 years instruction with Ada Traub at the Gnessin Special Music School in Moscow, she continued her study with Alexander Satz at the Gnessin Institute.

Since 1990 the pianist, who was born in Moscow, has lived in Germany. The piano duo Martha Argerich-Lilya Zilberstein have been one of the world's most celebrated ensembles for many years. Furthermore, she periodicly undertakes world tours with violinist Maxim Vengerow.

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Lilya Zilberstein plays Beethoven

The title "Grand Piano Masters" contains a CD series by the K & K publishing company with live concert recordings, which were recoded in the Bad Homburg Schlosskirche. Lilya Zilberstein’s CD published in 2008 with Beethoven's Sonatas No. 2 and No. 23 has been praised in the highest terms by the press worldwide. In the music magazine PIANO NEWS, for example, one could read: "The amount of power and motivation that emanates from Zilberstein is displayed in the recording of both well-known Beethoven Sonatas which she presented on the sonorous C. Bechstein Modell D 280.

Lilya Zilberstein plays Brahms

The concert that Lilya Zilberstein performed on a C. Bechstein concert grand piano in the Bad Homburg Schlosskirche was thankfully recorded live. For her interpretationsof Brahms Variations Opus 21 and the eight piano pieces Opus 76 present the famous pianist at the height of her art. Ernst Hoffmann wrote the appropriate sentences: "For Lilya Zilberstein it doesn't make any difference whether she plays a short piano piece of an extensive sonata. Dynamic contrasts are great, construction symphonic. She succeeds convincingly in setting free the enormous pressure in many phrases, which Brahms is always able to exploit."

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