Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Ovchinnikov, composer and conductor was born on the 29-th May, 1936, in Voronezh, in serviceman family.He creates music for such masterpieces of world cinema, as "War and Piece" by Sergei Bondarchuk, "Ivan's Childhood" and "Andrei Rublev" by Andrei Tarkovsky, "Earth" and "Arsenal" by A.Dovzhenko, "The First Teacher" and "A Nest of the Gentry" by Andrei Konchalovsky. All those works got awards at international competitions: Oscar in the USA, Gold Lion in Venice. In 1967 British Society of International Prizes awarded V.Ovchinnikov a gold medal for music he composed for films.V.Ovchinnikov belongs to those musicians, whose performances and works are expected as great event.A.Khachaturian and D.I.Shostakovich considered V.Ovchinnikov the most prominent representative of his generation. D.Shostakovich, in one of his letters to V.Ovchinnikov, foretells him great future. Though the composer himself believes that he is at the beginning of his activity, and that is why he even does not number his works. "Metamorphosis" Piano sonata in two parts is one of best composition composed by Ovchinnikov.It was written in the Memory of " H. Neuhaus".Tatiana Primak Khoury is one the fewest who played this great composition..and her recording is the ONLY one officially recorded on a Cd.fOR MORE DETAILS PLEASE VISIT THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE COMPOSER: http://vyacheslavovchinnikov.ru/en/content/?id=69