Capriccio malinconico - Works for Violin and Piano Arsenis Selalmazidis & Tamara Elizbarashvili

• Arsenis Selalmazidis (b. 1990): Capriccio malinconico:
• 1 Selalmazidis: Capriccio malinconico 04:37
• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924): Après un rêve:
• 2 Fauré: Après un rêve 02:46
• Arsenis Selalmazidis: Poem:
• 3 Selalmazidis: Poem 09:48
• Alfred Schnittke (1934 - 1998): A Paganini:
• 4 Schnittke: A Paganini 12:49
• Arsenis Selalmazidis: Inner Light:
• 5 Selalmazidis: Inner Light 10:56
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Allegretto:
• 6 Ravel: Allegretto 07:12
• Blues. Moderato:
• 7 Ravel: Blues. Moderato 05:02
• Perpetuum mobile. Allegro:
• 8 Ravel: Perpetuum mobile. Allegro 03:48
• Total Runtime 56:58

Info for Capriccio malinconico - Works for Violin and Piano

For his debut album, Arsenis Selalmazidis has chosen works by Schnittke, Ravel and Faure because their work had a profound influence on him. All the pieces are arranged in such a way that the difference between the musical eras is barely noticeable. With this album, it is important to him to give listeners the opportunity to slow down and pause for a moment in the hectic rhythm of modern music.

Arsenis Selalmazidis, violin
Tamara Elizbarashvili, piano

Arsenis Selalmazidis
was born in Russia in 1990 and then moved together with his family to Greece, where he received his first music lessons from his father. He gave his first solo recital at the age of nine. He successfully finished his studies at the ‘Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln’ in the class of Prof Zakhar Bron. He is a prize-winner of international competitions, such as Karol Lipinski and Henryk Wieniawski Competition in Lublin, Poland, the Boris Goldstein Competition in Bern, Switzerland and of the Maestro Rodolfo Lipizer in Gorizia, Italy. He has also been a scholarship holder of the famous ‘Live-Music-Now’, a scholarship founded by Yehudi Menuhin. Currently, Mr Selalmazidis is not only active as a solo violinist, but also as chamber musician as a member of the “Con Vigora Trio” and as an assistant in the class of Zakhar Bron. He plays a master instrument of Alexander Hazin.

Tamara Elizbarashvili
is a collaborative pianist at the R. Schumann Musikhochschule in Duesseldorf, Germany since 2019.

She gave her first public concert with orchestra at the age of six. After obtaining solo master degree in the Netherlands at the Prince Claus Conservatoire she moved to Germany where she studied chamber music at the Folkwang university of arts with Evgeni Sinaiski in Essen.

Prize winner of many national and international competitions and festivals. Among them Klaas Dijkstra Award at the Peter de Grote Festival in the Netherlands. Special prize of the radio of Portugal at the SIPO international festival in Portugal, and second prize at the A. Khachaturian international piano competition as well as special prize of Moscow P. Tchaikovsky Concervatoire for the best interpretation of the Prokofiev piano sonata.

Alongside with solo recitals she appears as a chamber music pianist with numerous concerts in all over Germany, Italy, Holland, Greece, Portugal and in her native Georgia.

As a collaborative pianist she appears regularly at the various international masterclasses and festivals.

Her recitals had been broadcasted by the central portuguese radio Antena 2 and german WDR 3.

This album contains no booklet.