Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Paganini Rhapsody

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Vinnitskaya’s playing is an absolute delight for its natural, songful, expressive phrasing and a cool unpretentious temperament rather akin with the composer’s own recorded approach. Always intelligent,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 18th Aug 2017
Catalogue No: ALPHA275
Label: Alpha
Length: 56 minutes

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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18

Work length33:26

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Anna Vinnitskaya (piano)
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Krzysztof Urbański
Recorded: 10-16 May 2016
Recording Venue: Rolf-Liebermann-Studio, Hamburg, Germany

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II. Adagio sostenuto

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III. Allegro scherzando

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Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

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Anna Vinnitskaya (piano)
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Krzysztof Urbański
Recorded: 10-16 May 2016
Recording Venue: Rolf-Liebermann-Studio, Hamburg, Germany

Introduction. Allegro vivace - Var. 1 (Precedente)

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Theme. L'istesso tempo

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Var. 2, L'istesso tempo

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Var. 3, L'istesso tempo

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Var. 4, Più vivo

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Var. 5, Tempo precedente

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Var. 6, L'istesso tempo

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Var. 7, Meno mosso, a tempo moderato

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Var. 8, Tempo I

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Var. 9, L'istesso tempo

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Var. 10, L'istesso tempo

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Var. 11, Moderato

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Var. 12, Tempo di minuetto

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Var. 13, Allegro

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Var. 14, L'istesso tempo

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Var. 15, Più vivo scherzando

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Var. 16, Allegretto

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Var. 17, Allegretto

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Var. 18, Andante cantabile

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Var. 19, A tempo vivace

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Var. 20, Un poco più vivo

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Var. 21, Un poco più vivo

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Var. 22, Un poco più vivo (Alla breve)

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Var. 23, L'istesso tempo

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Var. 24, A tempo un poco meno mosso

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Serge Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto might never have seen the light of day had it not been for hypnosis: before the twenty-seven-year-old composer began work on it, he was on his last legs – financially, artistically and psychologically. Dr Nikolay Dahl hypnotised his patient every day, whispering to him: ‘You will write your concerto. You will work with great fluency. The concerto will be of excellent quality.’ The creative block disappeared, and the concerto’s premiere in Moscow in 1901 was a triumph for Rachmaninov, who played the solo part himself. Anna Vinnitskaya says she feels ‘a spring-like atmosphere’ in this work: throughout there is a sense of movement, of awakening. The music passes through the most contrasting psychological landscapes, but moves towards clarity and light. Rachmaninov composed the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in 1934, ten years before his death. Brahms, Liszt, Lutosławski and Andrew Lloyd Webber are among the remarkable roll call of composers inspired by Paganini’s theme. The Russian pianist and the Polish conductor Krzysztof Urbański have often played Rachmaninoff together, on every continent. The two artists, both of whom present here their third disc for Alpha, were reunited in the NDR studios in Hamburg to record this repertory that fits them like a glove.

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December 2017

Vinnitskaya’s playing is an absolute delight for its natural, songful, expressive phrasing and a cool unpretentious temperament rather akin with the composer’s own recorded approach. Always intelligent, and present in the moment, she is alive to the inner voices and colourful contrasts in both [the Concerto] and the Paganini Rhapsody.

October 2017

The best performances should ideally project both virtuoso bravura and chamber-like interaction between soloist and ensemble. This happens throughout the Second Concerto’s opening movement, where pianist Anna Vinnitskaya and conductor Kryzystof Urbański resist the temptation to smother lyrical passages.

27th September 2017

Vinnitskaya takes nothing as read; phrasing is imaginative, dynamics are finely calibrated and the whole piece emerges with a clarity and freshness.

7th September 2017

Vinnitskaya brings to both works a clarity of articulation that makes the passages high up the keyboard sound weightless...The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra plays with an old-school glow and solidity for Krzysztof Urbanski. While his changes of tempo can be sudden they never seem dangerous, and for all its urgency the concerto’s passion seems constrained.

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