Schumann & Dvorak: Piano Concertos

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his performances in these two warm-hearted concertos amply display his pure-spirited, intelligent artistry...Piemontesi makes an even more satisfying impression when he lets his hair down a little. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Jun 2013
Catalogue No: V5327
Label: Naive
Length: 70 minutes

Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

Work length31:00

$8.00

$10.30

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiří Bělohlávek
Recorded: 1 December 2012
Recording Venue: Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

I. Allegro affettuoso

Track length15:09

$4.00

$5.15

II. Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso

Track length5:08

$1.00

$1.30

III. Allegro vivace

Track length10:43

$3.00

$3.85

Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33

Work length39:23

$9.00

$11.60

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiří Bělohlávek
Recorded: November 2012
Recording Venue: BBC Malda Vale Studios, United Kingdom

I. Allegro agitato - Poco tranquillo - Tempo I - Poco tranquillo - Tempo I

Track length19:14

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$5.15

II. Andante sostenuto

Track length8:58

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$2.60

III. Finale: Allegro con fuoco - Poco sostenuto - Tempo I

Track length11:11

$3.00

$3.85

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New Naïve signing, Francesco Piemontesi, born in 1983, is one of today's most-watched pianists. His debut album on Naïve features the Schumann Piano Concerto and the original version of the Dvorák Piano Concerto, a work seldom performed due to its sheer technical difficulty. Conducted by Jiri Belohlávek with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the album was recorded at BBC Maida Vale studios (Dvorák) and live in concert at the Barbican (Schumann) in December 2012 and continues the blossoming relationship between soloist, conductor and orchestra, begun in 2010, with Strauss’s 'Burleske'.

Piemontesi was voted Best Newcomer at the 2012 BBC Music Magazine Awards. In presenting his student with the award, Alfred Brendel praised “a young pianist with real talent, a pianist of natural poise and grace, of wonderful technical equipment, and of the ability to remind us what beautiful playing means: cantabile playing that is colourful, luminous and harmonious, without in the least lacking tension and atmosphere.”

Piemontesi has been a prize-winner at numerous international competitions including the Queen Elisabeth in Brussels, and in 2009 was awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship as well as being named by the BBC as one of its New Generation Artists.

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August 2013

his performances in these two warm-hearted concertos amply display his pure-spirited, intelligent artistry...Piemontesi makes an even more satisfying impression when he lets his hair down a little.

August 2013

Piemontesi benefits from a wonderfully realistic piano sound - too forwardly placed, some may think - which captures his creamy tone production and tapered phrase-ending to good effect... Listening to Piemontesi...makes you wonder if it isn't time the Dvorak gained a place in the regular concerto repertoire.

September 2013

Piemontesi is a very gifted young player and his account of Schumann’s original masterpiece ranks highly- always intensely musical and respectful of the score, deeply felt, producing a performance that will give much pleasure

4th September 2013

It’s a performance full of vivid imagery, refined lyric tracery and dancing rhythms. Some teasing pianistic rubati - faithfully followed by the conductor - ensure that nothing is metrical, and that the wind tapestry in particular sounds authentically Czech...If you are keen to hear the Dvořák original - or maybe it’s better to say ‘Original, mark II’ - then go for this Naive release which comes complete with excellent notes by Ludmila Smidová.

2nd June 2013

Schumann’s concerto never fails to enchant... and Piemontesi brings to it an exquisite lyricism

22nd June 2013

Piemontesi's crisp articulation is matched in the characterful playing of the BBC SO's clarinet, flute and oboe principals, the cadenza of the Schumann exquisite. Belohlávek's balancing of orchestra and soloist is near-ideal

Schumann & Dvorak: Piano Concertos

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