Laureate of numerous piano competitions (“A. Rubinstein” (Paris), “The Muse” (Santorini), “Yakov Flier” (Moscow) International Piano Competitions, “Normandy European Piano Competition” (France), Mark Taratushkin performs successfully as soloist and as chamber musician in Russia and Europe-wide.
Born in Ukraine, where he started his musical education at the age of five, he moved to Moscow, where he soon was accepted to the Central Music School. Later he entered Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he studied in class of prof. N. Troull. Graduating from the Moscow Conservatory in 2013, the young pianist moved to Germany, where he continued his education first in class of prof. G. Zitterbart in HMTM Hannover, and later under the guidance of prof. K Hellwig at UdK Berlin, where he studies up to now.
During the last few years Taratushkin has been concentrating on performance of the German romantic music and on XXth century music among others.
The last variation was breathtaking. I'm not talking about the incredible speed ( for my taste it's too fast) but the way this young musician and artist made the music itself come out of it! Very good performance! I appreciate! Good luck to you man!
The phrasing and clarity of structure in the performance of these studies is beyond parallel. I learned so much from hearing these performed so intelligently.
Excelent master piece to do my accounting reconciliations, I imagine that all records are accurate when it is absolutely impossible.. and time are passing slowly
You either do Prokofiev as a pianist or you don't even if you've got top notch technical skills. Prokofiev is more than that you need to know his mind to play. I listened to several variations of sarcasms... none comes as close to what it ought to have been like this one❤ great job!
Bartók is the ONLY classical composer I like. (if you don't count certain film composers) He's perhaps the only composer (not working in film) who understood that music is about EMOTIONS (not scales and rigid systems). To me, Bach and Mozart have more in common with Rihanna and Taylor Swift than that guy. ...and he appears in hip hop all the time. :D
Amazing job, Mark, I've never been much of a Bartok enthusiast, but have always loved loved these pieces in particular and really enjoyed your interpretations of them.
Thank you as much for your written discussion as for the performance! (I'd heard Zoltan Kocsis' recording of these but the recording quality was poor) Kevin Chen just won first place in the 2022 Concours de Geneve with his inclusion of these in his dazzling solo recital, and I found a new favorite piano piece, and a new Bartok.
M. Taratushkin, I believe you exemplify the title of the cycle perfectly, but also I felt playfulness, horror, vindictiveness, and despair as well. Superb expression of these pieces! Many thanks.
