Chopin: Ballade N° 2 – Evgeny Malinin

Recorded in the 1950s.

Evgeny Malinin (1930–2001) was a pupil of Heinrich Neuhaus. In 1949 he won the International Youth Festival in Budapest (ex aequo with Tamara Guseva) and 7th prize at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw. In 1953 he won 2nd prize at the Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris. After graduating, he served as Neuhaus's assistant at the Moscow Conservatoire.

A video of Malinin (aged 14) playing Glinka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4obvKZnEXhI

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