New releases from the RLPO
Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra begins 2010 with three exciting new recordings:
Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, Isle of the Dead, and The Rock, conducted by Vasily Petrenko
BBC Radio 3’s "CD Review" program commented that with "even greater urgency [than Vladimir Jurowski] ... Petrenko's performance with the RLPO is one of dramatic and gripping contrasts ... and is certainly worth investigating."
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Rachmaninov’s Piano Concertos 2 & 3
Pianist Simon Trpčeski 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.
“Petrenko's Rachmaninov is passionate yet strikingly unsentimental. This approach fits well with that of his soloist Simon Trpčeski, 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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Jon Lord - To Notice Such Things
After the success of the Durham Concerto , the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra once again performs new work by Deep Purple’s Jon Lord.
The album is dedicated to the memory of Jon Lord’s late friend Sir John Mortimer and contains a six piece suite for solo flute, piano and string orchestra as well as three other compositions for the same forces. Includes Evening Song, tipped to be a Classic FM favourite.
Click here to read a track by track description by Jon Lord.
Listen to clips from the CD and preorder now – Released on 29 March.
Works from To Notice Such Things will receive their UK premiere at Jon Lord's Concerto for Group and Orchestra, part of the Phil’s Summer Pops series on Wednesday 16 June. Tickets available very soon.
