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Artists Michael Ponti (piano), Felicja Blumental (piano), In-Ju Bang (piano), Oxana Yablonskaya (piano), Hsin-ni Liu (piano), Maria Littauer (piano), Derek Han (piano), Klára Würtz (piano), Bernd Glemser (piano), Kun-Woo Paik (piano), Boris Giltburg (piano), Olga Solovieva (piano), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano), Stefan Doniga (piano) Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Hungarica, Wiener Symphoniker, Luxembourg Radio Orchestra, Westphalian Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian Academy of Music Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky, Othmar Maga, Helmut Froschauer, Pierre Cao, Siegfried Landau, Hans Richard Stracke, Richard Kapp, Jörg Faerber, Hans Drewanz, Paul Freeman, Vladimir Sirenko, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Antoni Wit, Vasily Petrenko, Timur Mynbaev, Johannes Kalitzke, David Porcelijn. 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 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. |