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Severin von Eckardstein

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Prokofiev performed by Severin von Eckardstein, a highly accomplished pianist from Dsseldorf, Germany, who won first prize in the piano category at the 2003 Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition!Eckardstein has also won prizes one after another at competitions known for their high standards, including the Arthur Schnabel International Piano Competition, the Busoni International Piano Competition, the Munich International Music Competition, and the Leeds International Piano Competition.Prokofievs piano works, with their superb cohesion and vitality, contain moments of surprisemoments in which human emotions creep up on the listenermeticulously woven into the fabric of the music, thereby revealing a striking sincerity and deep inner emotion. These are moments of desolate, violent despairentirely distinct from those composed of post-Romantic emotional episodes. (Severin von Ec