Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 2 & 3 Conducted by Vasily Petrenko
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Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor
I Moderato
II Adagio sostenuto
III Allegro scherzando
Piano Concerto no. 3 in D minor
I Allegro ma non tanto
II Intermezzo: Adagio
III Finale: Alla breve
Simon Trpčeski piano
Vasily Petrenko conductor
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Diapason d'Or - May 2010
"Trpčeski was born to perform this music, and Petrenko to conduct it. With the addition of the warm Russian sound that the RLPO adopts, the mix is exceptionally potent." - The Telegraph, 5 March 2010
"Both musicians are bursting with fire and seem joined at the hip in these accounts of Rachmaninov’s second and third piano concertos." - The Times, 6 March 2010
"[Simon Trpčeski] has everything under his fingers ... there's an integrity and musicality that commands respect ... richly expansive... I definitely want to hear it again." - BBC Radio 3's CD Review, 27 February 2010
Pianist Simon Trpceski makes his Avie label debut with his first concerto recording, Rachmaninov’s Second and Third, potently partnered by Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
30-year-old Macedonian pianist Simon Trpceski is one of the most remarkable musicians of his generation. Here he performs technically flawless and superbly rendered versions of Rachmaninov’s notoriously challenging Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3. He partners with frequent collaborator Vasily Petrenko who, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, extend their fruitful Avie association with this, the first of two recordings with Trpceski surveying Rachmaninov’s complete concertante works for piano and orchestra.
Trpceski has performed extensively in the UK and has a loyal following amongst audiences of the London Symphony, Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, the Wigmore Hall and Southbank, and others. Winner of the London International Piano Competition in 2000, he was a member of the BBC New Generation scheme and winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist Award in 2003. A Gramophone Award-winning artist, his first concerto recording will be eagerly sought out.
Since becoming Principal Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in 2006, and Chief Conductor in 2009, Petrenko has had a galvanising effect on Classic FM’s Orchestra in the Northwest. Multiple Gramophone Awards and unanimous critical acclaim have further spread their magical brand of music-making.
“Petrenko's Rachmaninov is passionate yet strikingly unsentimental. This approach fits well with that of his soloist Simon Trpceski, whose playing of this most difficult of concertos combined impish nonchalance with great muscularity. Much of it was dazzling…Trpceski dispatched the first-movement cadenza with breathtaking panache.” - The Guardian
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