Medtner, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. Three prodigious personalities of Slavonic culture whose works followed very different paths. Nevertheless, from the very first bars of the scores recorded here, there is no doubt that this is Russian music . . . After attracting attention as one of the finalists at the 2015 Chopin Competition, Dmitry Shishkin took First Prize at the 2018 Geneva Competition, then Second Prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019. This twenty-seven-year-old Russian comes from the Urals, like Nureyev, whose elegance and inner fire he shares. © La Dolce Volta