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Sokolov was born in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, to Jewish father Lipman Girshevich Sokolov and Russian mother Galina Nikolayevna Zelenetskaya. He began studying the piano at the age of five and entered the Leningrad Conservatory’s special school for children at the age of seven to study with Leah Zelikhman. After graduating from the children’s school he continued studying at the Conservatory with Moisey Khalfin. At 12, he gave his first major recital in Moscow, in a concert of works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Liszt, Debussy and Shostakovich at the Philharmonic Society.

At age 16, he came to international attention when the jury at the 1966 International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition awarded him the gold medal.

Brahms – Intermezzo Op. 117 No. 2 – Sokolov, Piano

Intermezzo Op 117 No 2 in B-Flat Minor is the second of the three Intermezzi for piano composed by Johannes Brahms in 1892 for solo piano.

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Stravinsky – Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka – Sokolov, Piano

Trois mouvements de Petrouchka is an arrangement for piano of music from the ballet Petrushka by the composer Igor Stravinsky for the pianist Arthur Rubinstein. Stravinsky is very explicit in stating that …

BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Piano / Prelude / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Bach / Siloti – Prelude in B minor – Sokolov, Piano

Alexander Siloti made an arrangement of Bach’s prelude in E-minor from The Well Tempered Clavier, first book, transposing it to B minor.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Arabesque / Piano

Schumann – Arabesque – Sokolov, Piano

Robert Schumann wrote his Arabesque in C major, Op. 18 in 1839 when he was 29 years old, dedicating it to Frau Majorin Friederike Serre auf Maxen, to whom he …

Beethoven - Sonata No 17 in D minor, 3rd movement - Sokolov, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Beethoven – Sonata No. 17, Allegretto – Sokolov, Piano

The Piano Sonata No. 17 is usually referred to as “The Tempest” (or Der Sturm in his native German), but the sonata was not given this title by Beethoven, or indeed referred to as such during his lifetime.

The Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov performs Couperin's Tic-toc-choc (or Les maillotins) from his third volume of harsichord music

BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Piano / Suite

Couperin – Le tic-toc-choc ou Les maillotins – Sokolov, Piano

Le tic-toc-choc, or Les maillotins is a piece from Couperin’s volume three of harpsichord music. Couperin’s four volumes of harpsichord music, published in Paris in 1713, 1717, 1722, and 1730, contain over 230 individual pieces.

Chopin - Nocturne No 20 in C sharp minor - Sokolov, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Nocturne / Piano

Chopin – Nocturne No. 20 – Sokolov, Piano

Chopin’s Nocturne No. 20 in C-sharp minor, Op. posth., was composed in 1830 and published in 1870. Chopin dedicated this work to his older sister, Ludwika Chopin, with the statement: “To my sister Ludwika as an exercise before beginning the study of my second Concerto”.