Andrew Litton lubi Rachmanifoffa - nagrał wszystkie jego symfonie. Także Stephen Hough gra jego koncerty z iskrzącą pasją. Płyta doceniona przez wydawnictwa muzyczne, zobyła liczne pochlebne opinie i wiele nagród, w tym: MusicWeb Recording of the Month, Gramophone Editor's Choice, Classicstoday.com 10/10.
A concerto album from Stephen Hough is always a significant event. For this new recording Stephen travelled to Bergen – Grieg’s home town – to join forces with Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in performances of Grieg and Liszt that are set to become landmark recordings of all three concertos. Grieg’s A minor Piano Concerto, with its plethora of great tunes, is one of the most popular of all Romantic works, while Liszt’s two highly original concertos present unique challenges to both pianist and orchestra. These performances are exciting, magisterial and highly coloured, with breathtaking virtuosity harnessed to poetic refinement and finesse – hallmarks of Stephen’s playing that have already helped his concerto recordings to win two Gramophone ‘Record of the Year’ accolades. Stephen Hough and Andrew Litton continue the astonishing success of their collaboration in Rachmaninov’s concertos, Hyperion’s fastest-selling recording. The Bergen players provide freshly idiomatic support in the Grieg and revel in the sumptuous scoring of the Liszt. The results are thrilling, and this deserves a place in any music lover’s collection, no matter how familiar the music. Released to coincide with the twin anniversaries of Liszt’s birth (200 years ago) and Stephen’s own 50th birthday (in November), this recording is an apt celebration of both.
Andrew Litton lubi Rachmanifoffa - nagrał wszystkie jego symfonie. Także Stephen Hough gra jego koncerty z iskrzącą pasją. Płyta doceniona przez wydawnictwa muzyczne, zobyła liczne pochlebne opinie i wiele nagród, w tym: MusicWeb Recording of the Month, Gramophone Editor's Choice, Classicstoday.com 10/10.
Kolejny album Sebastiana Bohrena - szwajcarskiego skrzypka młodego pokolenia, odnoszącego sukcesy na estradach Europy. Studiował u Roberta Zimanskiego i Zakhara Brona w Wyższej Szkole Muzycznej w Zurichu. Jako solista występował z wieloma znaczącymi orkiestrami, m. in.: Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Camerata Zurich, Chamber Aartists i inne. Tym razem usłyszymy koncerty skrzypcowe Feliksa Mendessohna i Benjamina Brittena. Artyście towarzyszy Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, dyryguje Andrew Litton. Muzycy: Sebastian Bohren, violin Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Andrew Litton, conductor
Separately, both Freddy Kempf and the team of Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Andrew Litton have recorded music by Prokofiev for BIS, resulting in highly acclaimed releases. Freddy Kempf’s 2003 Prokofiev solo recital was described as ‘a superb disc’ in Gramophone, whose critic went on to write: ‘Kempf is joyfully exuberant, flashing through every savage challenge with the assurance and instinct of a born virtuoso.’ Four years later, the Bergen orchestra and Litton recorded the twenty movements from the composer’s three Romeo and Juliet suites, performed in the order the music appears in the ballet score. The outcome of this original approach was widely praised, for instance by the reviewer on the German website Klassik Heute: “a European top orchestra and an American conductor with great insights into the Russian repertoire meet up, and the result is sparkling, colourful, ardent and with great presence…” Kempf, Litton and the Bergen PO now join forces in an all-Prokofiev programme that includes the most popular of his five piano concertos, namely the Third, a spontaneous work, vigorous and melodic in turns and full of striking material presented in a typical Prokofiev manner. This is coupled with the Second Piano Concerto, which Prokofiev himself premièred in 1913, shocking the audience with its modernistic sounds and jagged rhythms. The original score was lost during the Russian Revolution and Prokofiev reconstructed the work in Paris in 1923. According to the composer himself, the new version was so completely rewritten that it almost constituted a new work. Between the two concertos Freddy Kempf performs the Second Piano Sonata, a key work in Prokofiev’s development and full of striking and individual ideas.