Nikolai Andreyevich Orlov (Russian: Николай Андреевич Орлов; 26 February (J: 14 February) 1892 in Yelets, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire – 31 May 1964 in Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland, United Kingdom) was a Russian pianist who was appreciated especially for his interpretations of Frédéric Chopin.

Nikolai Andreyevich Orloff (Russian: Николай Андреевич Орлов; 26 February (J: 14 February) 1892 in Yelets, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire – 31 May 1964 in Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland, United Kingdom) was a Russian pianist who was appreciated especially for his interpretations of Frédéric Chopin.

Jan 12, 2019 · Some of the biographical highlights of this artist: Born in 1892, Orloff came from a famous Russian family and graduated with the Gold Medal from the Moscow Conservatory in 1910 after studying piano with the legendary Konstantin Igumnov and composition with Taneyev.

I have collected here, in a single video, all of Orloff's Chopin recordings made in the early 60s.8 Mazurkas op. 67 n. 4 (00:00)op. 30 n. 1 (2:46)op. 30 n. 2...

Russian-born pianist Nikolai Orloff (1892-1964) spent much of his adult life in Britain, as did other luminaries and contemporaries such as Moisewitsch, Pouishnoff and Hambourg. Unlike them he didn’t record much and, when he did, he was past his best.

The complete published Decca recordings of Nikolai Orloff, a fine but forgotten Russian pianist, previously unreleased on CD. A student of the legendary pedagogue Konstantin Igumnov, Nikolai Orloff became a professor of piano himself at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1917, at …

1892-1964 * 1892-02-26 (Yelets)† 1964-05-31 (Grantown-on-Spey, 72yo) Teachers:Vasily Safonov, Konstantin Igumnov Important pupils:-

"Nikolai Orloff plays Russian Piano Music" Nikolai Orloff (Nicholas Orlov) was a concert pianist of the 19th century Romantic period. After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory, he studied piano with Konstantin Igumnov and composition and counterpoint with Sergei Taneyev.

Explore a chronology for the Russian pianist Nikolai Orloff (1892-1964), detailing his concert programs and recording sessions.

Nikolaj Orloff was a magnificent pianist of the turn-of-the-20th century school. His playing, in the words of the inestimable gullivior, was "anti-virtuoso, intense, deeply poetic and romantic..." To me he is a kind of Russian Cortot, a dramatic poet of the piano.