Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Concert Fantasia

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Nebolsin yields nothing to Scherbakov in terms of brilliance of technique, but his piano tone is richer and more subtle in its variety of colour…[he] hardly puts a foot wrong, and Michael Stern... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 9th Sep 2016
Catalogue No: 8573462
Label: Naxos
Length: 72 minutes

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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44

Work length42:46

Album only

Eldar Nebolsin, Vesa-Matti Leppänen, Andrew Joyce
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Michael Stern

I. Allegro brillante

Track length20:40

Album only

II. Andante non troppo

Track length14:37

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

III. Allegro con fuoco

Track length7:29

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasy, Op. 56

Work length29:28

$7.00

$9.00

$12.25

Eldar Nebolsin
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Michael Stern

I. Quasi rondo. Andante mosso

Track length15:55

$4.00

$5.15

$7.00

II. Contrastes. Andante cantabile - Molto vivace

Track length13:33

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

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Tchaikovsky has long maintained his position as among the most popular of all composers, his unequalled gift for melody and colourful orchestration given added depth through a rich Russian soulfulness. The Second Piano Concerto has always lived under the shadow of the famous First but, played here in the composer’s original version, is full of life-enhancing character and emotion. Both this and the Concert Fantasia also contain beautiful chamber-music sections allowing unique interaction between soloist and orchestra.

Eldar Nebolsin enjoys a busy international career as a soloist, recitalist and chamber music player, appearing with conductors, orchestras and colleagues of international distinction. During the 2009–2010 season he enjoyed the honour of being Artist in Residence for Musis Sacrum in Arnhem following his successful début with the Gelders Orkest and Nikolay Alexeev in 2008. In 2005 he was unanimously awarded the Sviatoslav Richter Prize in the First International Piano Competition in Moscow, where he was also honoured with the special award for the Best Classical Concerto Performance.

Reviews

November 2016

Nebolsin yields nothing to Scherbakov in terms of brilliance of technique, but his piano tone is richer and more subtle in its variety of colour…[he] hardly puts a foot wrong, and Michael Stern secures rhythmically vibrant playing from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

November 2016

Nebolsin opts for a reading that is refreshingly mellow, almost intimate and, above all, profoundly lyrical…[his] focus is on the shape of the phrase, inflected with the most delicate rubato. Stern and the New Zealanders mirror this rhetorical flexibility with great skill and subtlety…the finale has a fleet Mendelssohnian or perhaps Litolffian lightness…heightening the overall golden bravura of the concerto

12th January 2017

A goodly dose of unapologetically Tchaikovskian bliss.

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Concert Fantasia

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