Label: Triton (JP)
Format: SACD
Barcode: 4526977050443
Catalog number: EXCL 44
Releasedate: 29-10-10
Format: SACD
Barcode: 4526977050443
Releasedate: 29-10-10
According to panist Alexander Gavrylyuk it is all about not only playing the notes themselves but totally becoming the notes. The art is to penetrate in such a way the essence of the score, that you emotionally become one with the music you play. This is exactly what the young pianist does, together with Prokofiev-connaisseur Vladimir Ashkenazy and his orchestra.
- In 2005 Gavrylyuk breaks through internationally when he receives a Golden Medal in the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv
- Ashkenazy knows Prokofiev and this piano repertoire to the core and now he has taken up the baton for a performance of these works
- Alexander Gavrylyuk has the ability to play delicate as well as powerful; he is a true masterpianist
- Hybrid (CD SACD 2ch)
- Live & session recording series of Sydney Symphony and Mr. Ashkenazy's "Composer Festival", featuring Prokofiev in 2009
Three piano concertos of Sergei Prokofiev on this new CD.
This is the third live & session recording series of Sydney Symphony and Mr. Ashkenazy's "Composer Festival", featuring Prokofiev in 2009, following Rachmaninov (2007) and Elgar (2008). This Prokofiev series also includes complete piano concertos with Russian pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk.
Prokofiev set about composing his Piano Concerto No. 1 in 1911 and in 1912 the work was finished. It is a one-movement concerto, and lasts around 16 and a half minute in the interpretation of Gavrylyuk/Ashkenazy.
In the same year 1912 Sergei Prokofiev began to work out his Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 which was completed in 1913. He himself performed this as a solo pianist, at the premiere on August 23 in 1913. The concerto has quite a temperament and some people in the audience were taken by it and others firmly opposed to its modernistic sound. Nowadays people recognize it as the masterpiece which it is.
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat major for the left hand, Op. 53, was commissioned by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein and completed in 1931.
At his graduation competition, Prokofiev performed his first piano concerto because he figured he had a better chance of winning if the judges didn’t know the music (he was right!). In this program of the festival, Alexander Gavrylyuk takes the spotlight to perform this dazzling, bravura work. (source: Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
Underneath Prokofiev’s cheeky wit, sarcasm and brilliance was a romantic soul, which audiences will discover in his Third Piano Concerto the romantic Prokofiev shines through when Alexander Gavrylyuk joins Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony. Prokofiev was capable of lyrical and irresistible melodies. (source: Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
“In the end, he (Prokofiev) was just another human being who tried to express this in his music” - Vladimir Ashkenazy
This is the third live & session recording series of Sydney Symphony and Mr. Ashkenazy's "Composer Festival", featuring Prokofiev in 2009, following Rachmaninov (2007) and Elgar (2008). This Prokofiev series also includes complete piano concertos with Russian pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk.
Prokofiev set about composing his Piano Concerto No. 1 in 1911 and in 1912 the work was finished. It is a one-movement concerto, and lasts around 16 and a half minute in the interpretation of Gavrylyuk/Ashkenazy.
In the same year 1912 Sergei Prokofiev began to work out his Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 which was completed in 1913. He himself performed this as a solo pianist, at the premiere on August 23 in 1913. The concerto has quite a temperament and some people in the audience were taken by it and others firmly opposed to its modernistic sound. Nowadays people recognize it as the masterpiece which it is.
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat major for the left hand, Op. 53, was commissioned by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein and completed in 1931.
At his graduation competition, Prokofiev performed his first piano concerto because he figured he had a better chance of winning if the judges didn’t know the music (he was right!). In this program of the festival, Alexander Gavrylyuk takes the spotlight to perform this dazzling, bravura work. (source: Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
Underneath Prokofiev’s cheeky wit, sarcasm and brilliance was a romantic soul, which audiences will discover in his Third Piano Concerto the romantic Prokofiev shines through when Alexander Gavrylyuk joins Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony. Prokofiev was capable of lyrical and irresistible melodies. (source: Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
“In the end, he (Prokofiev) was just another human being who tried to express this in his music” - Vladimir Ashkenazy
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1Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major Op. 10Allegro brioso
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2Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major Op. 10Andate assai
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3Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major Op. 10Allegro Scherzando
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4Piano Concerto No. 2 in G-minor Op. 16Andantino
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5Piano Concerto No. 2 in G-minor Op. 16Scherzo (Vivace)
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6Piano Concerto No. 2 in G-minor Op. 16Intermezzo
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7Piano Concerto No. 2 in G-minor Op. 16Finale (Allegro Tempestoso)
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8Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat major Op. 53Vivace
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9Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat major Op. 53Andante
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10Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat major Op. 53Moderato - Allegro moderato
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11Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat major Op. 53Vivace