Rubinstein Collection, Vol. 54

Grigory Lipmanovich Sokolov born April 18, 1950, is a Russian concert pianist. He is among the most esteemed of living pianists, his repertoire spanning composers from the Baroque period such as Bach, Couperin or Rameau up to Schoenberg and Arapov. He regularly tours Europe, and resides in Italy.

1923-1947 recordings

2011 from the acclaimed composer/musician, who has also recorded under the name Sinebag. At this point he focuses mostly on composing contemporary multimedia works for ensemble, electronics and video. Schubert has also played frequently in different improvised contexts - ranging from free jazz to conceptual improv. While these poles and the harmonic Sinebag project used to be really different fields of work, they started to merge together more and more - now being rather different aspects of a similar approach on music. As working on this album took approximately three years, the pop elements were heavily influenced by the other fields of composition and improvisation, that Alexander Schubert was focusing on mostly in this period of time. This explains why the album is released as Alexander Schubert plays Sinebag as it's neither like his composed music nor like the old Sinebag releases.