Anton Batagov

Anton Batagov (born October 10, 1965) is a Russian pianist and post-minimalist composer. "One of the most significant and unusual figures of Russian contemporary music", according to 'Newsweek's Russian edition in 1997, Batagov is an influential Russian composer and performer.[1]

Biography

A graduate of the Gnessin School and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and prize-winner at the International Tchaikovsky Competition (1986) and other competitions, Batagov introduced music by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Steve Reich and Philip Glass to Russian audiences. In 1997 he stopped performing live for 12 years to focus on composition and studio recordings. In 2009 he returned to live performances.

Discography
Music by Anton Batagov
  • I was looking at green trees for a long time (1994)
  • Music for December (1998)
  • Best Before 02.2000 (2000)
  • Prayers and Dances (2001)
  • Music for the 35 Buddhas (2001)
  • The Wheel of the Law (2002)
  • Music for Piano (2003)
  • Save Changes Before Closing? (2003)
  • Symphony.ru (2003)
  • From the Beginning up to the End (2004)
  • Tetractys (2004)
  • Music for Films (2005)
  • Passionate Desire to Be an Angel (2006)
  • Breathing In Breathing Out (original motion picture soundtrack) (2007)
  • The Monk Thogmey's Thirty-Seven Precepts (2007)
  • The Musicmaker's Contract (NTV/NTV+ channels greatest hits) (2007)
  • ab & xmz. The Piano And Other Sounds (2008)
  • Lama Sonam Dorje & Anton Batagov. Daily Practice (2008)
  • Bodhicharyavatara (with Telo Tulku Rinpoche) (2009)
  • ab & xmz II (2009)
  • Tayatha (Yungchen Lhamo & Anton Batagov ) (2013)
  • Selected Letters of Sergei Rachmaninoff (2013)
  • Post Production (2014)
  • I Fear No More. Selected songs and meditations of John Donne (2015)
  • The One Thus Gone (2017)
  • Where We Are Not. Letters of Mother Seraphima (2017)
  • 16+ (Female poetry through the ages) (Nadine Koutcher / Anton Batagov) (2019)
  • Disquiet (Music for Ivan Vyrypaev's drama) (2019)
  • Made in 1993: The Art of Sampling (2020)
  • Lamrim. A Prayer to the Gurus (EP, 2020)
  • I See Your Dream. You See My Dream (EP, 2020)
  • Invisible Lands (2020)
  • Early Piano Works Revisited (2021)
  • Optical Illusion (songs to the poetry of Alexander Pushkin and Daniil Kharms) (2021)
  • Quietude and Joy As Envisioned by Russian Painters (2021)
  • Bodhicharyavatara (Feat. Telo Tulku Rinpoche) (Remastered digital edition) (2022)
Music by various composers performed by Anton Batagov
  • Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus (1990)
  • Rails (Russian avant-garde piano music) (1991)
  • Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge (1993)
  • Ravel: Piano works (1994)
  • Alexandre Rabinovitch: Oeuvres pour piano (1994)
  • The New Ravel (Ravel: Piano works) (1996)
  • Yesterday (Russian post-minimalist piano music) (1998)
  • Vladimir Martynov: Opus posth (1998)
  • Sergei Zagny: Sonata (2000)
  • Remix (Beethoven, Schubert, Bach) (2002)
  • Morton Feldman: Triadic Memories (2003)
  • The Battell (music of William Byrd and Johann Pachelbel) (2014)
  • Alle Menschen Müssen Sterben (music of Johann Pachelbel) (2015)
  • Prophecies (Music by Philip Glass from Einstein on the Beach and Koyaanisqatsi arranged for piano solo and performed by Anton Batagov) (2016)
  • Tchaikovsky Competition 1986 (2016)
  • BACH (Johann Sebastian Bach: Partitas No.4 & 6, Jesus bleibet meine Freude) (2017)
  • Philip Glass: The Complete Etudes (2017)
  • An Evening Hymn (Early English Music) (2018)
  • Big My Secret (Piano recital: Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Nyman, Bull) (2018)
  • Philip Glass: The Hours / Distant Figure (2018)
  • Sunny Night (Piano recital: Rebikov, Debussy, Grieg, Chopin, Waters) (2020)
  • Debussy. Preludes, Book 1 (Live) (2020)
  • SCHUBERT (Franz Schubert: Sonate in B flat major and other works) (2021)
  • One Two Three. Music in triple time (Piano recital: Bach, Satie, Tchaikovsky, Scarlatti, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Beethoven, Bach) (2021)

References
  1. "RUSSIAN COMPOSER/ PIANIST ANTON BATAGOV PERFORMS DROWNED CATHEDRAL: THREE NIGHTS OF PIANO MUSIC". Double Sharp.com. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
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