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As the work of a 24-year-old seeking to make his mark, Kabalevsky's First Piano Concerto is unsurprisingly replete with references to the Russian concerto tradition. Yet just as one notes the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 2nd Oct 2006
Catalogue No: CHAN10384
Label: Chandos
Length: 67 minutes

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Kabalevsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 9 (1928)

Work length31:25

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Neeme Järvi, BBC Philharmonic, Kathryn Stott
Recorded: 6-7 July 2005
Recording Venue: Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, England

I. Moderato quasi andantino

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II. Tema. Moderato

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II. Variation 1. L'istesso tempo

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II. Variation 2. Allegro assai

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II. Variation 3. Andante

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II. Variation 4. Vivace

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II. Variation 5. Funebre

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II. Coda. Tempo di tema

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III. Vivace marcato

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Kabalevsky: Symphony No. 2, Op. 19

Work length24:19

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Neeme Järvi, BBC Philharmonic
Recorded: 6-7 July 2005
Recording Venue: Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, Engl

I. Allegro quasi presto

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II. Andante non troppo

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III. Prestissimo scherzando

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Kabalevsky: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 99 ‘Prague’

Work length11:55

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Neeme Järvi, BBC Philharmonic, Kathryn Stott
Recorded: 6-7 July 2005
Recording Venue: Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, England

I. Allegro molto e energico

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II. Molto sostenuto

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III. Vivo

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2010

As the work of a 24-year-old seeking to make his mark, Kabalevsky's First Piano Concerto is unsurprisingly replete with references to the Russian concerto tradition. Yet just as one notes the seemingly blatant echoes of Rachmaninov's Paganini Rhapsody in the slow movement, one realises that the Rhapsody post-dates the Concerto by six years: evidently Rachmaninov was doing the echoing. Moreover, along with the stylistic affinities comes a less predictable tone of wistful introspection and an urge for symphonic consistency, qualities readily attributable to the influence of Kabalevsky's teacher, Myaskovsky.
All this is superbly delineated by Kathryn Stott, completing her outstanding survey of the four Kabalevsky piano concertos with these superbly considered accounts.
Kabalevsky's Second Symphony is again clearly indebted to Myaskovsky. Its relatively conventional layout is capped by a Scherzo that mutates rather neatly into a finale and puts the earnestness of the first two movements firmly behind it. Järvi knocks several minutes off the normal timing of the second and third movements by virtue of a robust, no-nonsense approach.
Stott and Järvi steer the Fourth Concerto home in just under 12 minutes, mainly by taking a less drawn-out approach to the slow movement than in the composer's own recording. In most respects they surpass that unsubtle if disciplined version. Beautifully recorded and executed, the new Chandos disc is self-recommending for collectors of Soviet music and/or 20th-century piano concertos.

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