After the great success of her debut album (a 2021 OPUS KLASSIK award winner) and her duo album with pianist En-Chia Lin, Selina Ott teams up with renowned pianist Maria Radutu for her third recording, in which Dirk Kaftan conducts the ORF RSO in three works by Dmitri Shostakovich, André Jolivet and Mieczysław Weinberg.

Shostakovich’s Concerto for piano, trumpet and string orchestra (1933) is notable for a prevailing parodistic tone, which features in hardly any of his other works. Many of the themes that lend the music a distorted, grotesque face are assigned to the trumpet.

Although the instrumentation for André Jolivet’s Concertino for trumpet, strings and piano is exactly the same as that for the Shostakovich, the latter is more of a piano concerto, while Jolivet’s is more of a trumpet concerto.

Like Shostakovich, Mieczysław Weinberg also incorporates several quotations into the final movement of his Trumpet Concerto (1967) – the fanfare from Mendelssohn’s Wedding March, for example. Referred to by Shostakovich as ‘a symphony for trumpet and orchestra’, the work presents music with a taut inner structure and logical consistency.