RACHMANINOFF
- "My Restless Soul"

- Romances

- Songs

SVIRIDOV
- Russia Cast Adrift

- Mikhail Arkadiev was born in Moscow in 1958. In 1978, he graduated as a pianist from the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow and entered the piano faculty of the Gnessin Institute as a member of Professor Alexandrov's class. In 1988, he completed his post graduate studies in the same class. At the same time, he devoted himself to composition and the study of music theory.

- He has already written a number of compositions for piano as well as vocal and chamber works including a mass for choir and organ. He also has a career as a solo pianist, as well as being occupied with teaching. He now occupies the chair of the piano department at the Academy of Choral Art in Moscow.

- In 1992, his book The Temporal Structure of New European Music: An Essay of Phenomenological Study was published.

It deals with problems of musical time, rhythm, and articulation from Bach to Brahms. His academic field of interest also includes existential phenomenology and culturology.

- At present, Mr. Arkadiev gives solo concerts in Russia and Germany. He made his Berlin recital dŽbut in 1990.

- His partnership with Dmitri Hvorostovsky began in March of 1990. Mr. Arkadiev has since then accompanied Hvorostovsky on tours to Europe, America, and East Asia, with appearances in New York, Paris, Amsterdam, and the Pacific Music Festival. The New York Times called him a "wonderful partner of Hvorostovsky" and the Figaro "a sensational accompanist whose piano sounds like an orchestra."

- Russia Cast Adrift is Mikhail Arkadiev's second release with Philips Classics - he also accompanied Dmitri Hvorostovsky on a previous release My Restless Soul, with songs by Borodin, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky Korsakov and Tchaikovsky.