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This fascinating survey of the Russian (and Polish!) piano concerto includes the masterworks of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov – beloved examples at the pinnacle of both Russian music and the piano concerto genre – along with more- and lesser-known yet all eminently worthy works by composers from both Imperial and Soviet Russia and those by Paderewski, Scharwenka and Moszkowski, who were born in what today is Poland. Though the piano concerto is now inextricably linked in modern minds to the Russian repertoire, the area’s isolation meant that it would take some time for the genre to take hold there, but that it would grow into a unique, characteristic and varied expression. Apart from the jaw-dropping virtuosity and orchestral
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brilliance of these works, they share that common Slavonic flavor, an undefinable mixture of melancholy and passion, whether smoldering or blazing. The recordings on this release date from between 1964 and 2016. Read less
Works on This Recording
6.
Concerto for Piano no 3 in E minor, Op. 60 by Nikolai Medtner
Performer:
Michael Ponti (Piano)
Conductor:
Pierre Cao
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Luxembourg Radio Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: circa 1940-1943; France
7.
Concerto for Piano no 2 in E flat major by Mily Balakirev
Performer:
Michael Ponti (Piano)
Conductor:
Siegfried Landau
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Westphalian Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1864/1884; Russia
9.
Concerto for Piano no 1 in A minor, Op. 9 by Dmitri Kabalevsky
Performer:
In-Ju Bang (Piano)
Conductor:
Dmitry Yablonsky
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1928; USSR
10.
Concerto for Piano no 2 in G minor, Op. 23 by Dmitri Kabalevsky
Performer:
In-Ju Bang (Piano)
Conductor:
Dmitry Yablonsky
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1935; Moscow
11.
Concerto for Piano no 2 in B major, Op. 100 by Alexander Glazunov
Performer:
Oxana Yablonskaya (Piano)
Conductor:
Dmitry Yablonsky
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1917; USSR
13.
Concerto for Piano in C sharp minor, Op. 30 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Performer:
Hsin-in Lin (Piano)
Conductor:
Dmitry Yablonsky
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1882-1883; Russia
14.
Concerto for Piano no 1 in F minor, Op. 92 by Alexander Glazunov
Performer:
Oxana Yablonskaya (Piano)
Conductor:
Dmitry Yablonsky
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1910-1911; Russia
15.
Concerto for Piano in D flat major by Aram Khachaturian
Performer:
Oxana Yablonskaya (Piano)
Conductor:
Dmitry Yablonsky
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1936; USSR
16.
Concert-Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra by Aram Khachaturian
Performer:
Oxana Yablonskaya (Piano)
Conductor:
Dmitry Yablonsky
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1965; USSR
17.
Concerto for Piano in E major, Op. 59 by Moritz Moszkowski
Performer:
Michael Ponti (Piano)
Conductor:
Hans Richard Stracke
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Philharmonia Hungarica
Period: Romantic
Written: Germany
18.
Concerto for Piano no 2 in C minor, Op. 56 by Franz Xaver Scharwenka
Performer:
Michael Ponti (Piano)
Conductor:
Richard Kapp
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hamburg Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1881; Poland
19.
Concerto for Piano in F minor, Op. 2 by Anton Arensky
Performer:
Maria Littauer (Piano)
Conductor:
Jörg Faerber
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1881; Russia
20.
Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 17 by Ignace Jan Paderewski
Performer:
Felicja Blumental (Piano)
Conductor:
Helmuth Froschauer
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1888; Poland
23.
Concerto for Piano no 2 in G major, Op. 44 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performer:
Derek Han (Piano)
Conductor:
Paul Freeman
Orchestra/Ensemble:
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1879-1880; Russia
24.
Concerto for Piano no 2 in C minor, Op. 18 by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer:
Klára Würtz (Piano)
Conductor:
Vladimir Sirenko
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: Russia
25.
Concerto for Piano no 3 in D minor, Op. 30 by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer:
Bernd Glemser (Piano)
Conductor:
Vladimir Sirenko
Orchestra/Ensemble:
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland
Period: Romantic
Written: 1909; Russia
26.
Concerto for Piano no 3 in C major, Op. 26 by Sergei Prokofiev
Performer:
Kun-Woo Paik (Piano)
Conductor:
Antoni Wit
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1917-1921; USA
29.
Concerto for Piano no 1 in C minor, Op. 35 by Dmitri Shostakovich
Performer:
Boris Giltburg (Piano)
Conductor:
Vasily Petrenko
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1933; USSR
30.
Concerto for Piano no 2 in F major, Op. 102 by Dmitri Shostakovich
Performer:
Boris Giltburg (Piano)
Conductor:
Vasily Petrenko
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1957; USSR
31.
Concerto for Piano by Boris Tchaikovsky
Performer:
Olga Solovieva (Piano)
Conductor:
Timur Mynbaev
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Russian Academy of Music Chamber Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
32.
Piano Concerto, Op. 14 by Alexandr V. Mosolov
Performer:
Steffen Schleiermacher (Piano)
Conductor:
Johannes Kalitzke
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Period: Modern
Written: 1927
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