Artyom Dervoed - Artyom Dervoed - Paganini & Koshkin

This album features Megaron Concerto live performance recording: the concerto was performed in Kazan in November 2017 with La Primavera Kazan chamber orchestra under the baton of Rustem Abyazov and recorded live. Niccol� Paganini's Grand Sonata was originally written for the guitar accompanied by the violin. Nikita Koshkin decided to choose the Paganini-style quartet for the transcription: guitar, violin, viola, and cello. Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra artists Alexey Lundin (violin), Kirill Semenovykh (viola), and Daniil Shavyrin (cello) participated in the recording. Nikita Koshkin won international fame as a composer in the 1980s, once his avant-garde works broke the generally accepted notion of the classical guitar as an instrument locked into Spanish-Gypsy traditions. His works for the guitar contain techniques and tools which provide the audience with a full set of emotions and moods, usually associated with the classical music of the highest caliber. Nikita Koshkin resides in Russia and remains one of the most sought-after world guitar composers.