Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

Boris Giltburg and Vasily Petrenko are a tight unit, the pianist’s dashing virtuosity and subtlety of touch matched by equally incisive interpolations from the orchestra — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, More…

Release Date: 13th Jan 2017
Catalogue No: 8573666
Label: Naxos
Length: 69 minutes

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Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet & strings, Op. 35

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko
Boris Giltburg (piano), Rhys Owens (trumpet)
Recorded: 21, 22 and 25 January 2016
Recording Venue: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UK

I. Allegro moderato

6:09

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II. Lento

8:15

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III. Moderato

1:54

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IV. Allegro con brio

7:06

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Excerpt, Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68

6:00

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Boris Giltburg (piano)
Recorded: 16 June 2016
Recording Venue: Concert Hall, Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, UK

String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 68: III. Waltz: Allegro (arr. B. Giltburg for piano)

6:00

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Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102

19:56

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko
Boris Giltburg (piano)
Recorded: 21, 22 and 25 January 2016
Recording Venue: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UK

I. Allegro

7:26

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II. Andante

6:53

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III. Allegro

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110

20:16

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Boris Giltburg (piano)
Recorded: 16 June 2016
Recording Venue: Concert Hall, Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, UK

I. Largo

4:31

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II. Allegro molto

3:06

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III. Allegretto

4:07

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IV. Largo

4:46

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V. Largo

3:46

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Shostakovich’s two Piano Concertos span a period of almost thirty years. The youthful First Piano Concerto is a masterful example of eclecticism, its inscrutable humour and seriousness allied to virtuoso writing enhanced by the rôle for solo trumpet. Written as a birthday present for his son Maxim, the Second Piano Concerto is light-spirited with a hauntingly beautiful slow movement. With the permission of the composer’s family, Boris Giltburg has arranged the exceptionally dark, deeply personal and powerful String Quartet No. 8, thereby establishing a major Shostakovich solo piano composition.

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February 2017

Boris Giltburg and Vasily Petrenko are a tight unit, the pianist’s dashing virtuosity and subtlety of touch matched by equally incisive interpolations from the orchestra

February 2017

Boris Giltburg has all the fierce humour the music demands and has made his own arrangement of the String Quartet No.8

January 2017

Giltburg has all the agility, power and expressive intensity Shostakovich’s piano concertos demand, plus the temperament to negotiate their mercurial shifts of mood. Every phrase is imaginatively coloured or nuanced, and never out of gimmicky point-making, always because he has something worth saying. And he has found like-minded partners in the RLPO and Petrenko, who not only follow and support him superbly but also respond and provoke where appropriate

July 2017

The concertos [are] the main event, and Giltburg’s new accounts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in top form under Vassily Petrenko are first class…Rhys Owens is as fine a trumpet co-soloist as any pianist could wish for. In the gentler Second Concerto, written for the composer’s son, Maxim, the rapport between soloist and orchestra is a joy to hear.

22nd February 2017

Snap this up! Giltburg and Petrenko work superbly together. Great value for money.

22nd January 2017

Boris Giltburg gives sharp-edged accounts of the two concertos: the strident First more successful than the jokey Second. Excellent support from trumpeter Rhys Owens and the Liverpool Philharmonic.

Classical Ear 23rd March 2017

[The First] offers a fund of ideas, from intense lyricism to comic chase music, quick-change music here given a volatile and spiky outing, Rhys Owens the nimble trumpeter and Vasily Petrenko relishing the parodistic elements, Liverpool strings excelling. Giltburg also aims his sympathy and virtuosity at the light-hearted and bittersweet Second Concerto, music of toyshop delight and (in the slow movement) ravishing and eloquent melody.

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