Sunday 26th of June 2016 / Wye Valley Music, Wales
ICSM RECORDS, The Artists LIVE (UK TOUR) Chamber Concert at Wye Valley Festival, Wales 2 hands & 4 hands works by Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Schoenberg, Stravinsky. Fiammetta Tarli & Ivo Varbanov
Read MoreWednesday 15th June 2016 / St George’s, Bristol
ICSM RECORDS, The Artists LIVE (UK TOUR) Claude Debussy, En blanc et noir for two pianos Silvina Milstein, In a Bowl of Grey Blue Leaves for two pianos (2014, world premi?re, dedicated to Tarli – Varbanov) Johannes Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Haydn Op. 56b for two pianos Robert Keeley, Fiestas for two pianos Igor Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, Reduction for Piano Duet Fiammetta Tarli & Ivo Varbanov / 2 pianos and piano four hands
Read MoreFriday 10th of June 2016, 7:30 pm / St. John Smith Square, London
ICSM RECORDS, The Artists LIVE (UK TOUR) Claude Debussy, En blanc et noir for two pianos Silvina Milstein, In a Bowl of Grey Blue Leaves for two pianos (2014, world premi?re, dedicated to Tarli – Varbanov) Johannes Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Haydn Op. 56b for two pianos Robert Keeley, Fiestas for two pianos Igor Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, Reduction for Piano Duet Fiammetta Tarli & Ivo Varbanov / 2 pianos and piano four hands
Read MoreWednesday 8th June 2016, 7.30pm / Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-on-Thames
ICSM RECORDS, The Artists LIVE (UK TOUR) Robert Schumann, Fantasiestucke, Op. 12 (selection) Arnold Schoenberg, Sechs kleine Klavierstucke, Op. 19 Ludwig van Beethoven, Bagatelles Op. 126 (selection) Johannes Brahms, Ballades Op. 10 (selection) interval Igor Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, Reduction for Piano Duet Fiammetta Tarli & Ivo Varbanov / solo piano and piano four hands
Read MoreFriday 3rd of June 2016, 7:30 pm / Holywell Music Room, Oxford
ICSM RECORDS, The Artists LIVE (UK TOUR) J. Brahms, Love Songs Waltzes for piano four hands, Op. 52 J. Brahms, New Love Songs Waltzes for piano four-hands, Op. 65a interval I. Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, Reduction for Piano Duet
Read More14th April 2016, Shumen
Beethoven, Piano Concerto No 4 Shumen Philharmonic / Cond. Stanislav Oushev
Read More21st & 22nd January 2016, Glasgow New Auditorium
Recording, Glasgow New Auditorium Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Cond. Emil Tabakov Dimitar Nenov, Piano Concerto and Ballade
Read More15 December 2015, Glasgow
Producing of Majerski Piano Concerto. Michal Drewnowski, piano Royal Scottish National Orchestra Emil Tabakov, conductor
Read More9th November 2015, Bratislava Castle, Bratislava
Chamber Concert Johannes Brahms, Violin Sonata No 2, Cello Sonata No 1, Neue Liebeslieder Walzer Op. 65 Jozef Luptak, cello / Milan Pala, violin / Ivo Varbanov, piano / Fiammetta Tarli, piano
Read More9th October 2015, Bulgaria Concert Hall, Sofia
Concert with the Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra / Cond. Emil Tabakov Dimitar Nenov, Piano Concerto
Read MoreReview Kultura, Bulgaria 16.10.2015
A review from Kultura Weekly Newspaper, Bulgaria 16.10.2015 (in Bulgarian) Култура :: Културен коктейл :: От материалното към нематериалното
Read MoreReview Arts Desk, UK, May 2015
One of the most serious UK online publications about classical music: Classical CDs Weekly: Brahms, Schubert, Sibelius, Wagner | Classical music reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk
Read MoreReviews Rivista Musica, Italy, May 2015
A Review in Italian in the classical music magazine MUSICA, May 2015 Musica Italia recensioni ICSM
Read MoreReview International Record Review, February 2015
We had the privilege to be in one of the last issues of the now discontinued International Record Review. A serious magazine for the collectors. IRR Review Feb 2015
Read MoreReview by Huntley Dent, Fanfare USA, Jan-Feb 2015
January/February 2015 The growing field of artist-run labels is very encouraging, in that we get to hear attractive talents such as husband-and-wife pianists Ivo Varbanov and Fiammetta Tarli, who give considerable pleasure in their first batch of solo and duet releases. They are accomplished artists, he from Bulgaria, she from Italy, with depth of background and wide experience concertizing in Europe. I was the most attracted to their unusual CD of Brahms waltzes; in fact, I’ve never before encountered the four-hand piano arrangement, minus vocal quartet, that the composer made of his...
Read MoreReview by Jerry Dubins, Fanfare USA, Jan-Feb 2015
January/February 2015 The backstory to these four releases may actually turn out to be the front story; for at a time when record sales are purportedly at historic lows, a brand new label, Independent Creative Sound and Music (ICSM), has been founded in London in 2014 with a commitment to “uncompromising quality in every aspect of the recording process.” At hand are the first fruits of ICSM’s labors: two discs in its Solo series (002 and 003). One features Bulgarian pianist Ivo Varbanov performing a program of works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms; the other features Italian...
Read MoreReview by Scott Noriega, Fanfare USA, Jan-Feb 2015
January/February 2015 ICSM? The International Society for Contemporary Music? No. That would be the ISCM. ICSM is a new record label—Independent Creative Sound and Music Records—founded this year by its first two recorded members heard here, the pianists, Ivo Varbanov and Fiammetta Tarli, based in London, England. And what is the premise of this, yet another independent record label? That the musicians chosen to record should be in charge of virtually every aspect of the recording from the beginning to the end, both in terms of the artistic product and the intellectual property: the...
Read MoreBrahms: Complete waltzes for four hands CD review – sparkle and swing, by Stephen Pritchard, The Observer
Stephen Pritchard Sunday 30 November 2014 00.05 GMT The Observer Brahms: Complete waltzes for four hands CD review – sparkle and swing (4/5 stars) Fiammetta Tarli and Ivo Varbanov (piano) (ICSM) ‘A dizzying experience’: FIammetta Tarli and Ivo Varbanov. You can have too much of a good thing sometimes. Brahms’s two sets of Liebeslieder waltzes (love song waltzes) and his Op 39 waltzes were designed for domestic consumption, to be played and sung by talented families around the pianoforte… but not all in one evening. To hear all 49 in one go is a dizzying experience, a triple-time...
Read MoreKlassisk Musikkmagasin, Norway
Brahms Walzer, op. 39; Liebesliederwalzer, op. 52a; Neue Liebesliederwalzer, op. 65a Fiammetta Tarli and Ivo Varbanov (piano duet) ICSM Records ICSM 001 (56 minutter) icsmrecords.com 1 2 3 4 5 6 Beethoven Bagatelles, op. 126; Schumann Ges?nge der Fr?he; Brahms arr. Busoni Chorale Preludes, Op. 122: Nr 4, 5, 8–11 Ivo Varbanov (klaver) ICSM Records ICSM 002 (53 minutter) icsmrecords.com 1 2 3 4 5 6 Schubert Moments musicaux, D.780; Schumann Phantasiest?cke, op. 12; Schoenberg Sechs kleine Klavierst?cke, op. 19 Fiammetta Tarli (klaver) ICSM Records ICSM 003 (65...
Read MoreRENCONTRES for La Musique Classique, France
Here is link with an interview in French for la Musique Classique: Rencontres – Ivo Varbanov | La musique classique
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