Special offer. Stravinsky: Complete music for piano & orchestra
Steven Osborne (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov
With Steven Osborne as soloist, the concertante works are in exceptionally good hands...After the Capriccio's grandiose opening, Osborne's tight control of the piano's insistent, driving textures...
Special offer. Stravinsky: Complete music for piano & orchestra
Steven Osborne (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov
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With Steven Osborne as soloist, the concertante works are in exceptionally good hands...After the Capriccio's grandiose opening, Osborne's tight control of the piano's insistent, driving textures...
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A new album from the Gramophone Award-winning team of Steven Osborne, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov. Here they present Stravinsky’s complete music for piano and orchestra as a rare complete set, plus the Concerto in D for string orchestra. The taut rhythmic brilliance of this music is perfectly suited to the particular artistry of these performers. Volkov’s mastery of Stravinsky’s neo-classical idiom is clear from the ecstatic critical response to his recordings of many of the composer’s orchestral works.
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Awards and reviews
July 2013
With Steven Osborne as soloist, the concertante works are in exceptionally good hands...After the Capriccio's grandiose opening, Osborne's tight control of the piano's insistent, driving textures provides a firm foundation for the opening movement's unexpected humanity and charm.
8th June 2013
The outstanding work here is the Concerto for piano and wind instruments (1923-24), played by Osborne in a way that finds wit in the rhythmic quirks while lending substance to the music’s 18th-century references, so that it never sounds dry.
August 2013
Osborne and Volkov tick a major Stravinsky box
19th May 2013
Osborne plays all with diamantine brilliance.
30th May 2013
though they do not manage to make either [concerto] more likable, Osborne and Volkov judge them perfectly – keeping the Concerto, as well as the slightly later Capriccio, on a tight rein, and threading a lucid path through the thickets and intricacies of the Movements.
29th May 2013
Osborne manifests both his rhythmic élan and his refined sense of tonal shading, underpinning the performances with virile energy...finding a spirited sparring-partner in the BBC Scottish Symphony under Ilan Volkov.
