Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5

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The clarity of Yevgeny Sudbin's playing, and the range of keyboard colours he commands are qualities that serve him as well in Beethoven as they did in his fine Scriabin recital for BIS a few... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Jan 2011
Catalogue No: BISSACD1758
Label: BIS
Length: 70 minutes

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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58

Work length32:27

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Yevgeny Sudbin
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä
Recorded: January 2009
Recording Venue: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

I. Allegro moderato

Track length17:39

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II. Andante con moto

Track length5:06

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III. Rondo. Vivace

Track length9:42

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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor'

Work length37:56

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Yevgeny Sudbin
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä
Recorded: June 2010
Recording Venue: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

I. Allegro

Track length20:12

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II. Adagio un poco mosso

Track length7:35

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III. Rondo. Allegro

Track length10:09

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After huge success with their cycle of Beethoven Symphonies on BIS, Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra return with the great composer’s Piano Concertos performed by the sensational young pianist Yevgeny Sudbin.

Sudbin made his début on disc with a programme of sonatas by Scarlatti, but soon continued with recordings of music by later composers from his own country of birth, Russia. He has recorded the Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos No.1, Medtner’s Concertos Nos. 1&2 and Rachmaninov No.4 2010 saw Sudbin’s return to the 18th century, with a Haydn recital that confirmed his reputation as a highly versatile musician. “Few seem as fresh and necessary as this release from this wonder pianist” The Times (5 Star review) on Sudbin’s Tchaikovsky/Medtner concertos

Opening with the composer’s final two works in the genre, Sudbin shares the stage with Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä, a team whose Beethoven credentials are assured after their recent cycle of the nine symphonies which critics claimed to be one of the great Beethoven Cycles.

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April 2011

The clarity of Yevgeny Sudbin's playing, and the range of keyboard colours he commands are qualities that serve him as well in Beethoven as they did in his fine Scriabin recital for BIS a few years back. He is particularly successful here in the more intimate and chamber-like Fourth Concerto...There's much to like about Sudbin's Emperor, too. The Adagio is admirably luminous

April 2011

Vänskä's lightness of touch - a cooler Beethoven than we're accustomed to, but peppered with artfully controlled explosions - is just what's needed to get inside the enigmatic Fourth, and his 'Emperor' is refreshingly restrained.

18th March 2011

Sudbin brings delicacy and crystalline articulation to these concertos, creating a sense of classical grace rather than romantic scale... but his aristocratic mien and stylistic assurance...[add] a welcome degree of wit to the fourth concerto’s finale and a poise and sparkle to the Emperor...Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra prove equally sympathetic accompanists.

April 2011

Sudbin makes it clear that he has little use for Beethoven weighed down, as it were, with excess baggage...Instead, his delectably light-fingered brilliance and virtuosity shines a new light on some of the most familiar scores in the repertoire...Such mercurial pianism keeps Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra on their toes but they follow their soloist as to the manor born.

April 2011

Sudbin need not fear being heard in the context of pianists who are appreciably further on in their careers...In a crowded field [he] ranks near the top and it will be fascinating to hear how his cycle evolves over the remaining two installments. Highly recommended.

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