Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1, Piano Quintet & Concertino

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Here's an excellent, multi-faceted programme which reflects both Shostakovich's madcap humour and his more "private", expressive side. A truly charismatic and exhilarating experience. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008 More…

Release Date: 1st Oct 2007
Catalogue No: 5045042
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 65 minutes

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Recorded: 2006-06-17
Recording Venue: June 17 2006, Palazzo dei Congressi, Lugano, Switzerland

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II. Lento

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III. Moderato

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Recording Venue: June 25 2006, Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano, Switzerland

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Recorded: 2006-06-21
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Fugue: Adagio

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Intermezzo: Lento -

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May 2008

Here's an excellent, multi-faceted programme which reflects both Shostakovich's madcap humour and his more "private", expressive side. A truly charismatic and exhilarating experience.

November 2007

This excellent disc, consisting of live performances from the 'Progetto Martha Argerich' at the 2006 Lugano Festival, has a spontaneity and sheer pleasure in music-making one doesn’t often hear in Shostakovich.

2010

Argerich's 1994 DG reading of the Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings is already a benchmark version among modern recordings, complementing the composer's own technically fallible yet still indispensable 1958 account. But now there is a more natural flow in the slow movement, some previously slightly forced rubati are smoother, and although the textures are a fraction more richly pedalled, as often needs to be the case for projection to a big audience rather than the microphone, there is no more than an infinitesimal loss of clarity. So if anything Argerich's playing has the tiniest of edges even over her former self. More decisively, Sergei Nakariakov brings an extra dash of wit and soloistic presence to the trumpet part, not to mention an astonishing feat of (circular?) breathing in the slow movement. There is a fraction more flair from orchestra and conductor too, while the recording brings everything further forward, so that the electricity of the playing crackles around the room.
The two-piano Concertino is a little piece of high-quality Gebrauchsmusik for the then 16-year-old Maxim Shostakovich son to romp around with; Argerich and Zilberstein give it a wonderfully characterful rendition.
Much of the Piano Quintet also emerges as one has only always dreamt of hearing it – vivid from moment to moment, yet with a long musical line and dramatic overall conception. Occasionally the nervous energy of the playing is too much of a good thing, as in the tricky bridge from Intermezzo to finale – from darkest profundity to deceptive easy-going cheeriness – and as in the piano's first statement of the fugue theme in the second movement. So, recommend ed alongside the safer Ashkenazy/Fitzwilliam recording rather than above it. As for the disc as a whole: a sure-fire winner.

November 2007

Argerich's 1994 reading of the Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings is already a benchmark version among modern recordings… But now there is a more natural flow in the slow movement, some previously slightly forces rubato are smoother… So if anything Argerich's playing has the tiniest of edges even over her former self. More decisively, Sergei Nakariakov brings an extra dash of wit and soloistic presence to the trumpet part... the Piano Quintet also emerges as I have always dreamt of hearing it - vivid from moment to moment, yet with a long musical line and dramatic overall conception.

November 2008

Recorded at the 2006 Lugano Festival, Argerich's virtuosity is breathtaking. There's also a vivid, dramatic performance of the Piano Quintet.

Martha Argerich's summers at the Lugano Festival are reaping a rich harvest of live recordings for admirers of this supreme pianist. … This is live music-making of the most exhilarating order, benefiting from the intimacy of the setting as much as the skills of these peerless musicians

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1, Piano Quintet & Concertino

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