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Naxos completes its Medtner concerto cycle with Scherbakov. To have such Romantic richness – once the province of specialists – offered on a bargain label is cause for celebration in itself;... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 8553359
Label: Naxos
Length: 69 minutes

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Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 33

Work length34:49

$9.00

$11.60

Konstantin Scherbakov (piano)
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Ziva

I. Allegro

Track length11:59

$3.00

$3.85

II. Tranquillo, meditamente

Track length13:13

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$3.85

III. Tempo I

Track length2:19

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$1.30

IV. Allegro molto

Track length7:18

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$2.60

Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E minor, Op. 60 'Ballade'

Work length34:51

$8.00

$10.30

Konstantin Scherbakov (piano)
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Ziva

I. Con moto largamente

Track length14:41

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II. Interludium: Allegro, molto sostenuto, misterioso

Track length1:33

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$1.30

III. Finale: Allegro molto-Svegliando, eroico

Track length18:37

$4.00

$5.15

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2010

Naxos completes its Medtner concerto cycle with Scherbakov. To have such Romantic richness – once the province of specialists – offered on a bargain label is cause for celebration in itself; to have it performed and recorded with such tireless commitment is a double blessing.
That said, the performances on the first disc suffered from the soloist's poetic parsimony and an oppressive ill balance from Naxos. But this second disc is successful on all counts. Scherbakov, praised by Richter and recently hailed as a 'modern Rachmaninov', is now more attuned to Medtner's widely fluctuating idiom, complementing his virtuosity with inwardness and conviction. Sample the passage beginning at 6'30" in the Third Concerto's finale and you'll hear the sort of eloquence that warms the hearts of all true Russians.
Commissioned by Moiseiwitsch, an early and courageous champion of Medtner, the Third Concerto, subtitled 'Ballade', flows like some primeval river of the imagination, its burgeoning course inspired by Lermontov's WaterSpirit, while the First Concerto's often epic gestures blend a bittersweet Russian Romanticism with themes of an almost Elgarian cut. Scherbakov's agility at, say, the con moto (8'38") is never at the expense of a composer whose bravura is always poetically motivated. Lovers of Romantic piano concertos need look no further.

Scherbakov, praised by Richter and recently hailed as a 'modern Rachmaninov', is now more attuned to Medtner's widely flunctuating idion, complementing his unquestioned virtuosity with inwardness and conviction… you will hear the sort of eloquence that warms the hearts of all true Russians.

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