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Simon Simon Trpceski’s recording of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 was one of the most acclaimed and best-selling classical releases of 2010. His frequent collaborations with Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra are justly celebrated. Together they complete the Rachmaninov canon with this highly-anticipated follow up of Concertos Nos. 1 and 4, and the Paganini Rhapsody.
Rachmaninov Concertos 2 and 3 made the Top 10 of Billboard’s Classical Chart and won a Diapason d’or de l’année. Simon Trpceski will support the sequel with extensive touring and CD signings at which he regularly attracts hundreds of fans.
No.1: I Vivace
II Andante
III Allegro vivace
No.4: I Allegro vivace
II Largo
III Allegro vivace
Rhapsody: Introduction- Allegro vivace
Var 1 - Precedente
Theme - L'istesso tempo
Var 2 - L'istesso tempo
Var 3 - L'istesso tempo
Var 4 - Piu vivo
Var 5 - Tempo precedente
Var 6 - L'istesso tempo
Var 7 - Meno mosso, a temp moderato
Var 8 - Tempo 1
Var 9 - L'istesso tempo
Var 10 - Poco marcato
Var 11 - Moderato
Var 12 - Tempo di minuetto
Var13 - Allegro
Var 14 - L'istesso tempo
Var 15 - Piu vivo scherzando
Var 16 - Allegretto
Var 17 - [Allegretto]
Var 18 - Andante cantabile
Var 19 - A tempo vivace
Var 20 - Un poco piu vivo
Var 21 - Un poco piu vivo
Var 22 - Un poco piu vivo, alla breve
Var 23 - L'istesso tempo
Var 24 - A tempo un poco meno mosso
16th June 2011
*****
“Simon Trpceski, Vasily Petrenko and the RLPO bring understanding and instinct to their performances, and take to heart the different temperaments that each of the three works on this recording manifests...the judicious variety of touch and colour, and ability to reveal important details of the music, combine with an expressive maturity to make these performances utterly compelling.”
26th June 2011
“The virtuosi Macedonian Simon Trpčeski and St Petersburg-born Vasily Petrenko combine in taut, poetic performances with notably coruscating brass playing from an RLPO on impressive and expressive form.”
3rd July 2011
*****
“Trpceski captures the music’s protean mood switches to perfection, his mercurial fingers dashing off the vivace flourishes of the outer movements and the most brilliant Paganini variations with insouciant bravura and brio...These performances are a meeting of dazzling musical minds, offering an untraditional approach that never sounds wilful, attention-seeking or eccentric.”
August 2011
*****
“Trpceski relishes Rachmaninov, thrilling his audience with virtuosic passages which easily demonstrate why these pieces in particular were important vehicles for Rachmaninov the exiled pianist. Petrenko maintains timing and tension, whilst never allowing lush lyricism to become stodgy or overwhelming...this is a musical combination which works superbly.”
August 2011
****
“[Nos 1 & 4] have never been such sure-fire crowd-pleasers, but Trpceski certainly plays them with fire and passion. No. 1 emerges as big-boned and compelling, while he plays up the leanly modernist aspects of No. 4...Trpceski is aided throughout by the unanimity of feeling produced by Vassily Petrenko's direction of the orchestra, conductor and pianist working hand in glove.”
September 2011
“Expectations are fully realised in performances of the highest order...Trpceski was put on this earth to play this music and Petrenko to conduct it...This is a riveting disc, another major landmark for Trpceski and one on which Rachmaninov finds interpreters thoroughly attuned to his emotional world.”
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No.1: I Vivace
