Valery Pavlovich Afanassiev (Russian: Валерий Павлович Афанасьев, romanized: Valery Pavlovich Afanacyev; born 8 September 1947) is a Russian pianist, writer and conductor.
Afanassiev become widely known in the 1980s due to his musical partnership with Gidon Kremer. Their joint recordings of chamber works by Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms were highly praised. His interpretations of solo piano works by Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven and the others have aroused controversy on account of Afanassiev's tempi choices and idiosyncratic expressiveness. One review of his recording of Schubert's last three piano sonatas stated: "the perversity encountered here so angered me that I felt I could not dignify what I found here with any kind of coherent analysis".[2]
Afanassiev is also a writer of poetry, novels, and drama. He is also an orchestral conductor.[3]
Referencesedit
^"Valery Afanassiev Biography". ArkivMusic. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
^Linkowski, Allen (1999). "Schubert: Piano Sonatas, last 3". American Record Guide. 62 (2): 212.
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