Russian Piano Encores
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4803607
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 20th August 2012
Contents
Works
Scherzo in A flat majorA Musical Snuffbox, op.32
Romeo and Juliet: Pieces (10) for piano, op.75
Dances of the Dolls (7): Suite, op.91b
Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), op.59
The Seasons, op.37b
Artists
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)Works
Scherzo in A flat majorA Musical Snuffbox, op.32
Romeo and Juliet: Pieces (10) for piano, op.75
Dances of the Dolls (7): Suite, op.91b
Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), op.59
The Seasons, op.37b
Artists
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)About
Given Russia’s richness in superstar pianists, it is not surprising that Russian composers have composed extensively for the piano. Some of the composers represented in this collection were impressive pianists in their own right, and they composed music designed to display their own technique and artistry. Others were more modestly gifted as performers, but still composed idiomatically for the piano.
This collection brings together recordings by Vladimir Ashkenazy spanning some 40 years, from November 1963 (the three Rachmaninov Études-Tableaux) to March 2004 (the Kocsis transcription of Vocalise). Some of them appeared as fillers for bigger works – for instance, the Études-Tableaux were coupled with the 1964 recording of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2 with Kyril Kondrashin, one of Ashkenazy’s earliest recording for Decca, and his first solo recording for the label.
Tchaikovsky’s Dumka and the pieces by Taneyev, Liadov and Borodin were recorded in January 1983 and issued on LP as a coupling for his digital recording of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. The two pieces from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet were taped in 1968 as couplings for the composer’s Eighth Piano Sonata.
‘The Dumka is Tchaikovsky’s most successful single movement for solo piano, and this fine performance is a welcome replacement to Horowitz’s more incisive one of some 40 years ago. Taneyev’s Prelude and Fugue is academic yet lively, the Lyadov is a charming salon piece, and Borodin’s Scherzo is characteristically melodious’ - Gramophone
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