Kabalevsky: Piano Concertos, Volume 2 Piano Orchestral & Concertos Chandos

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DMITRY BORISOVICH KABALEVSKY

(1904-1987)

First Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 9*

31:13

in A minor - in a-Moll - en la mineur

Moderato quasi andantino - Poco meno mosso -

10:51

Tema. Moderato -

0:44

Variation 1. L'istesso tempo -

1:21

Variation 2. Allegro assai - Andante -

1:08

Variation 3. (Andante) - Poco più mosso -

1:28

Variation 4. [ ] - Vivace - Più mosso -

1:25

Variation 5. Funebre (Tempo di marcia moderato) -

3:54

Coda (Tempo di tema) -

0:58

Vivace marcato - Più mosso - Meno mosso -

9:17

Symphony No. 2, Op. 19

24:11

in C minor - in c-Moll - en ut mineur

10.

Allegro quasi presto - Poco sostenuto -

7:01

11.

Andante non troppo - Moderato -

9:46

12.

III

Prestissimo scherzando - Tempo I -

7:13

Fourth Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 99 'Prague'

11:57

13.

Allegro molto e energico -

3:13

14.

Molto sostenuto - Improvisato -

4:58

15.

III

Vivo - Più mosso. Con brio

3:39

Total time: 67:41

Solo: Kathryn Stott piano*

Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic

Conductor: Neeme Jarvi

6 and 7 July 2005

Stott plays both concertos with aplomb but also with an understandable wariness of their superficiality, coaxing out their lyricism but playing down their brilliance…

Fanfare on CHAN 10052, Piano Concertos Nos 2 and 3

I barely finished my first playing of this CD before I began to covet its predecessor, on which Kathryn Stott (with conductor Vassily Sinaisky) plays Kabelevsky’s Second and Third Piano Concertos.

International Record Review

Beautifully recorded and executed, the new Chandos disc is self-recommending for collectors of Soviet music and/or 20th-century piano concertos.

Gramophone

This luxuriously recorded follow-up to Kathryn Stott’s fine 2003 coupling of the Second and Third concertos (CHAN 10052) broadens one’s appreciation still further of this most underrated of all Soviet composers…. Stott plays both works with compelling flair and imagination, making light of their considerable technical demands.

BBC Music Magazine

Kathryn Stott is again the featured pianist on this release. I find her playing clear and a bit cool without being hard-edged, all very appropriate for a pair of works that draw frequently for the shape and substance of their figuration upon such works as Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto and Rachmaninov’s later, less romantically embued pieces.

Fanfare

You can’t fault the performances: Kathryn Stott is phenomenal in both concertos, and it’s difficult not to be seduced by the swagger and panache that Neeme Järvi and the BBC Philharmonic bring to the Second Symphony as well.

The Guardian

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