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Title: Underdeveloped student of a poor teacher!
Review: One would indeed wonder how this poor playing finds its way onto a CD of a major label at a time when the classical recording industry suffers from overproduction and poor sales...that is if one does not read the liner notes carefully enough, or rather, between the lines of liner notes. It is clear that some Moscow based teachers have a tight grip on "Denon" and that is how poor playing gets on Denon CD's... amazingly along with such a phenomenal pianist from Russia like Valery Afanassiev. It is a shame that the names of these two underdeveloped musicians and average piano students - Irina Mejoueva and Constantin Lifschitz - could be on the same label with a major musical exponent of our time - Valery Afanassiev. There is something for Denon A&R people to think about! Both of these young piano students did not even learn to pedal properly, let alone complete absense of the sense of style and finger technique.
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