Kabalevsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 / Colas Breugnon Overture / The Comedians available on April 02 2017 from Amazon for 13.13
Kabalevsky: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3 available on April 02 2015 from Base for 11.19
UPC bar code 095115105221 ξ1 registered April 02 2017
UPC bar code 095115105221 ξ2 registered September 27 2014
Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - Classical Audio
Manufacturered by Chandos
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Kabalevsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 / Colas Breugnon Overture / The Comedians Dmitri Kabalevsky; Vassily Sinaisky; BBC Philharmonic and Kathryn Stott
I ordered this recording to get one short piece on it and then was pleasantly surprised that the rest of the album was brilliant. If you love piano music this is a must.
Although I'm somewhat familiar with Kabalevsky's music (who isn't?), I really haven't spent much time listening to it - which is the reason I decided to buy this recording - I wasn't disappointed! The performance by the BBC Philharmonic is very tight and energetic. I usually listen to this when I've got a lot of time and need a bit of energy - it's a great replacement for caffeine. That, however, shouldn't discount the great musicianship of the orchestr..
This is simply one of the best-sounding piano concerto recordings I have heard -- both piano and orchestra, in a good relation to one another, and both stunningly recorded. I know about Kabalevsky only what I read in the booklet accompanying this disc, so I listened without preconceptions, and I was very impressed. The two orchestral makeweights, the Colas Breugnon Overture and the Comedians suite, are quite well-known, and receive lively performances here, but the piano concertos are what really claim ou..
Dmitri Kabalevsky has been considered a Soviet composer whose music was written with one eye over his shoulder to stay in the good graces of the Communist party; hence his music was a compromise to the taste of party officials and devoid of the irony that is typical of Shostakovish's music. However, this assessment is not atypical of his music. The second movement of Kabelevsky's Second Piano Concerto, for example, is a finely wrought funeral march and his music exhibits the influence of Rachmaninov, Rave..
