Sceneries

TRIO SPIEGELBILD
XAVIER LARSSON PAEZ, SAXOPHON
VADIM BAEV, AKKORDEON
KONSTANTIN ZVYAGIN, PIANO

The SpiegelBild Trio’s CD, “Sceneries”, is dedicated to the 150th Anniversary of Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Rounding out the program are contrasting works by the young composers ­Martin Brenne and Roman Galiev.  An exciting dialogue between established and new music, played by an unusual combination of instruments.

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01 MARTIN BRENNE (* 1984): Arabeske

MODEST PETROWITSCH MUSSORGSKI (1839 – 1881)
Bilder einer Ausstellung
02 Promenade
03 Nr. 1 Gnomus
04 Promenade
05 Nr. 2 Il vecchio castello
06 Promenade
07 Nr. 3 Tuileries
08 Nr. 4 Sandomirzsko Bydło
09 Promenade
10 Nr. 5 Ballett der unausgeschlüpften Küken
11 Nr. 6 »Samuel« Goldenberg und »Shmuÿle«
12 Promenade
13 Nr. 7 Limoges. Le marché
14 Nr. 8 Catacombae
15 Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
16 Nr. 9 Hütte auf Hühnerfüßen (Baba-Yaga)
17 Nr. 10 Heldentor (in der alten Hauptstadt Kiew)

18 ROMAN GALIEV (* 1992): Heaven scenery

 

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Trio Spiegelbild

The SpiegelBild Trio brings together a highly unusual combination of saxophone, accordion, and piano. They take a fresh look at famous classical works in addition to focusing on new music written especially for them by the younger generation of composers.
The keyboard players for the SpiegelBild Trio are two young graduates of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow, Konstantin Zvyagin and Vadim Baev. Shortly after completing their years there, they both moved to Cologne in order to study at the University of Music and Dance, where they soon formed a duo. Enthusiastic public reception, along with meeting the gifted saxophonist Xavier Larsson, inspired them to form the SpiegelBild Trio. Together, they now pursue a very active concert schedule throughout much of Germany and abroad. Their fruitful collaboration with young composers, their search for original works for this unusual combination of instruments, as well as working on new transcriptions and arrangements have enabled the trio to build a varied repertoire for this very exciting mix of sonorities.

XAVIER LARSSON was born in Ciutadella de Menorca, Spain, in 1991, where he began his musical education on the violin and saxophone. Later, he went on to further develop his saxophone skills at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, where he graduated with a Konzertexamen under Daniel Gauthier and earned a Masters degree in New Music with David Smeyers.
Larsson has appeared as soloist in well-known musical venues world wide including the Cologne Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Frankfurt Alte Oper, the Musikverin in Vienna, the Palau de la Música Catalana, the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, and the Chicago Cultural Centre.
Over the course of his career, Larsson has won over twenty first prizes in national and international competitions, both as soloist and as a chamber musician. Some of his prizes include the Classic Winds International Festival in 2016 in Germany, the 2016 SaxoVoce in France, the 2014 Intermusica in Austria, the 2014 Michal Spisak prize in Poland, the 2009 Concurso Permanente Jóvenes

VADIM BAEV was born in the Russian city of Severodvinsk on the White Sea. He received his first accordion lessons at the age of five from Tamara Faleva and later had lessons from Svetlana Farber in the local Music College. In 2008 he moved to Moscow where he studied music at Gnesin Russian Academy of Music under Prof. Yuri Sidorov. From 2014 to 2017 he was enrolled in the Masters program at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, working under Helmut Quakernack.
Vadim has many notable achievements to his credit and is a prize winner in Russian and international competitions. His talent has been supported by many scholarships and grants, including the Werner Richard — Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation and Live Music Now (Cologne).
His regular concert activities as accordionist include Trio SpiegelBild, the theatre ensemble La Môme Piaf, the klezmer group The Klezmer Tunes, and the band Chanson Trottoir. These have led him to many solo and chamber music concerts in Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, and Russia.
Since May, 2022 he has worked as an accordion teacher at the Rhenish School of Music in Cologne.

KONSTANTIN ZVYAGIN was born in 1990 in the ancient Russian city of Novgorod. He graduated from the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music in Moscow as a student of Prof. Tatiana Zelikman. He then went on to obtain his Masters at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with Nina Tichman.
As a young pianist, Zvyagin already has many notable achievements to his credit, and he has been a prizewinner in various Russian and international competitions. His musical gifts have been recognized by several scholarships and grants. He has a very active concert career both as pianist and member of Trio SpiegelBild and has appeared both as a soloist and chamber musician at various festivals and masterclasses in Ireland, Poland, Germany, the United States, France, Italy, Spain, Israel, and Russia.
In recent years, Zvyagin has made a special project of Richard Wagner’s  The Ring of the Nibelung. The result has been a suite in eight pictures Wagners Ring, transcribed for piano. He was recognized by the the Richard Wagner Stipendien­stiftung in the summer of 2023 for these efforts. He was also specially recognized by the Festival directors for his musical achievement.
His piano transcriptions of “Wagner’s Ring” have now been recorded by Spektral, appearing in March, 2024. The score has also been published by APOLLON Musikoffizin Verlag in Bonn.
He has been teaching at the Academy of Music in Darmstadt since January 2020.

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P + C 2024  Spektral, LC 15543
Best.-Nr. SRL4-24209
EAN: 4260130382094