Label: Triton (JP)
Format: SACD
Barcode: 4526977050474
Catalog number: EXCL 47
Releasedate: 29-10-10
Format: SACD
Barcode: 4526977050474
Releasedate: 29-10-10
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. With Mr. Ashkenazy's finest support, backed by his own long experiences as a pianist, Mr. Gavrylyuk's playing is delicate, powerful and splendid.
- 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
- In depth piano playing by Gavrylyuk, with much colour of tone and transparance
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.
Underneath Prokofiev’s cheeky wit, sarcasm and brilliance was a romantic soul, which audiences will discover in his Third Piano Concerto. This is why he 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. And then the unusual Fifth Piano Concerto, with its five movements shimmering like a string of finely cut jewels. (source: Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
"Prokofiev's first, third and fifth piano concertos are some of the most ferociously taxing in the repertory. Gavrylyuk easily surmounted their challenges with a seductive mixture of brilliance and sensitivity. Relentless torrents of notes and chords were not only dispatched with stunning speed, power, clarity and precision. They were also shaped with purpose and insight. By contrast, Gavrylyuk's deft lightness of touch, rhythmic alertness, and tonal variety (sparklingly bright in faster passages; warmly refined in slower, softer sections) captured Prokofiev's trademark moments of wistful introspection and mercurial playfulness."- The Australian about the performance in the concerts/live recordings for this cd
Underneath Prokofiev’s cheeky wit, sarcasm and brilliance was a romantic soul, which audiences will discover in his Third Piano Concerto. This is why he 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. And then the unusual Fifth Piano Concerto, with its five movements shimmering like a string of finely cut jewels. (source: Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
"Prokofiev's first, third and fifth piano concertos are some of the most ferociously taxing in the repertory. Gavrylyuk easily surmounted their challenges with a seductive mixture of brilliance and sensitivity. Relentless torrents of notes and chords were not only dispatched with stunning speed, power, clarity and precision. They were also shaped with purpose and insight. By contrast, Gavrylyuk's deft lightness of touch, rhythmic alertness, and tonal variety (sparklingly bright in faster passages; warmly refined in slower, softer sections) captured Prokofiev's trademark moments of wistful introspection and mercurial playfulness."- The Australian about the performance in the concerts/live recordings for this cd
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1Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major Op. 26Andate - Allegro
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2Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major Op. 26Tema and Variations (Andantino)
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3Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major Op. 26Allegro, ma non troppo
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4Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major Op. 55Allegro con brio
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5Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major Op. 55Moderato ben accentuato
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6Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major Op. 55Toccato (Allegro con fuoco)
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7Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major Op. 55Larghetto
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8Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major Op. 55Vivo