Various Artists - UnravelOn the jazz scene, pianist and composer Nikol Bkov is last year's major discovery. Her first album, "Inner Places", with which the artist ventured out of her familiar milieu of classical music interpretation, brought her a nomination for the Andel Award for the best jazz album of 2019. This year, Bkov comes with a new project in which she innovatively combines masterful interpretation of demanding classical piano repertoire (Rachmaninov, Ravel, Novk,

Johnny Mercer

Siobhan Kelly

where she studied with professor François Guye

I always think that the cello is the human voice of the performer and it is for this reason that the idea arose to include instrumental versions of works for voice

Men of the Cloth

Le Vite Parallele - Dimensioni Solari

Sadville) began ruminating on a new musical endeavor

including 'Sugar Foot Stomp'

devoted to one of her favorite composers

is most felicitous" (Gramophone)

as teen stars provided a slightly different and more universally acceptable strand of the new music

THE TWO PIANISTS featured here were contemporaries