Artist
Xiayin Wang
Peter Oundjian
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Genre:
Classical
Total Time:
75:49
Record Label:
Chandos
Format:
CD, MP3, iTunes
Release Date
April 29, 2016
Order links, audio samples
and track list after the jump.
Xiayin Wang
Peter Oundjian
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Genre:
Classical
Total Time:
75:49
Record Label:
Chandos
Format:
CD, MP3, iTunes
Release Date
April 29, 2016
Order links, audio samples
and track list after the jump.
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Product Description: After a year off the concert platform, Xiayin Wang, a specialist in the romantic repertoire, presents a new recording of two relatively little played piano concertos: No. 2 by Tchaikovsky, in its much lesserknown yet extremely virtuosic original version, and Khachaturian's. The disc also marks the 125th anniversary of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, here conducted by its Music Director, Peter Oundjian.
Involving the same forces as Wang's earlier recording of American concertos (Editor's Choice in the magazine Pianist), the album follows a performance in Edinburgh's Usher Hall, described by The Scotsman as 'breathtakingly athletic'.
Composed more than fifty years apart, these pieces have perhaps only one thing in common, namely an opening grandiosity or grandeur. Yet, while Tchaikovsky in 1879, in his heyday, undercut imperial splendour with a wealth of contrasting material that pointed the way ahead to more experimental, postimperial concertos such as Prokofiev's Second, Khachaturian's folk generalisations, vaguely Armenian or Georgian, remain the consistent thumbprints of a rather heavier style.
Involving the same forces as Wang's earlier recording of American concertos (Editor's Choice in the magazine Pianist), the album follows a performance in Edinburgh's Usher Hall, described by The Scotsman as 'breathtakingly athletic'.
Composed more than fifty years apart, these pieces have perhaps only one thing in common, namely an opening grandiosity or grandeur. Yet, while Tchaikovsky in 1879, in his heyday, undercut imperial splendour with a wealth of contrasting material that pointed the way ahead to more experimental, postimperial concertos such as Prokofiev's Second, Khachaturian's folk generalisations, vaguely Armenian or Georgian, remain the consistent thumbprints of a rather heavier style.
1. Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 44: I. Allegro brillante e molto vivace (5:46)
2. Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 44: I. Tempo I (4:52)
3. Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 44: I. Meno mosso moderato assai (5:02)
4. Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 44: I. Tempo I (4:32)
5. Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 44: II. Andante non troppo (14:26)
6. Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 44: III. Allegro con fuoco (7:34)
7. Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38: I. Allegro maestoso (14:11)
8. Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38: II. Andante con anima (10:26)
9. Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38: III. Allegro brillante (9:00)
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