Vinyl records

Nikolai Petrov vinyl records

1 album with 25 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Николай Арнольдович Петров (Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov). Nikolai Petrov (1943–2011) was a Russian pianist, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR and USSR. Nikolai was son of the cellist Arnold Ferkelman (1914–92), nephew of the composer Moisey Ferkelman (1908–74) and grandson of opera bass Vassili Petrov. In 1961 he graduated from musical high school in the class of teacher T. Kestner, the he entered the Moscow Conservatory to study with Jakov Zak. Nikolai Petrov won the second prize at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas and Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. The Belgian paper Soir called him a "virtuoso of the piano".