Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons leads the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, featuring renowned pianist Yefim Bronfman. Recorded live at the Lucerne Festival in 2011, the programme also features Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherazade', Chopin's Etude in F Major and Dvorák's Slavonic Dance in A Flat Major.
"Chopin's music & stories by Kayo 2: 24 Preludia - świat wyobraźni" to kolejny, solowy album znanej z wykonań wszystkich dzieł Fryderyka Chopina, japońskiej pianistki Kaya Nishimizu. Na płytę składa się cykl obrazów malowanych dźwiękami, wyrastających z podziwu i miłości do fortepianu wszechobecnego w muzyce kompozytora. Bogactwo stylistyki preludiów, ich proporcje i harmonizacja to esencja, która zniewala słuchacza muzyką zapisana we wszystkich mozliwych tonacjach.
Godowsky's Studies on Chopin's Etudes have achieved a legendary status among piano enthusiasts. Few areas of the repertoire have such a notorious reputation for technical difficulty and audacious compositional invention. Far from being disrespectful maltreatments of Chopin's masterpieces, Godowsky's elaborations aim to extend the limits of modern piano technique. Some recast Chopin's right-hand passagework for the left hand while introducing new contrapuntal ideas; some treat the originals more freely, inverting, imitating or combining two Etudes; others are character pieces or variations based on Chopin's originals; and twenty-two of the Studies are for the left hand alone. Taken as a whole, these Studies revolutionized piano writing and expanded the polyphonic and polyrhythmic capabilities of the instrument. They remain among the most daunting challenges of the piano literature, their difficulties not always fully apparent to the listener. Pianists brave enough to tackle this music have often been content merely to get through the notes. Marc-André Hamelin, renowned for his superhuman technical control, injects them with the required range of character, colour and musicianship, as well as breathtaking virtuosity. Uniquely available on 2CDs, this will surely be the benchmark recording for all time. This set comes with a handsome booklet, including an essay by the Godowsky expert Jeremy Nicholas and individual commentaries by Marc-André Hamelin.
1. Azoi Tanzmen In Odessa 2. Moldavian Hora/No Name Sirba 3. Mazl Tov 4. Chopin's Freilach 5. Hasidic 6. Prayer In The Isaac Synagogue 7. Kolomeykes 8. Bulgar 9. Friday Evening 10. Skocna