Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3

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The evergreen Second Concerto is gorgeously rich, with just the right amount of gooeyness. Sudbin captures the sheer weight of emotion in this work…Throughout, Sudbin creates a beautifully rounded... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Mar 2018
Catalogue No: BIS2338
Label: BIS
Length: 75 minutes

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March 2018

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

Work length32:24

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Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo
Recorded: February 2017
Recording Venue: Maida Vale Studios, London, United Kingdom

I. Moderato

Track length10:14

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II. Adagio sostenuto

Track length10:15

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III. Allegro scherzando

Track length11:55

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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

Work length42:45

Album only

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$17.50

Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo
Recorded: February 2017
Recording Venue: Maida Vale Studios, London, United Kingdom

I. Allegro ma non tanto

Track length17:00

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II. Intermezzo. Adagio

Track length10:51

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III. Finale. Alla breve

Track length14:54

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Over the course of almost 10 years, Yevgeny Sudbin has been recording Sergei Rachmaninov’s works for piano and orchestra. The journey began in the U.S.A. in 2008 with the Fourth Piano Concerto, and what Classic FM Magazine described as ‘a glorious recording’ with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra under Grant Llewellyn. For the Paganini Variations and Piano Concerto No. 1, Sudbin continued to Asia and highly praised collaborations with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and conductor Lan Shui. Reviewers remarked on the soloist’s ‘transcendental virtuosity and kaleidoscopic keyboard colour’ (BBC Music Magazine) and enjoyed piano-playing with ‘depth of tone, subtlety and richness of texture, and scintillating dynamism allied to acute lyrical sensibility’ (Gramophone).

The grand finale of Sudbin’s Rachmaninov cycle combines the two best-loved concertos – No. 2 in C minor and No. 3 in D minor – but it also constitutes a home-coming of a kind, as it was recorded in London, Yevgeny Sudbin’s base since 1997. For his partners in these monumental and almost iconic concertos, Sudbin has chosen the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Sakari Oramo.

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June 2018

The evergreen Second Concerto is gorgeously rich, with just the right amount of gooeyness. Sudbin captures the sheer weight of emotion in this work…Throughout, Sudbin creates a beautifully rounded tone – each show-stopping tune is as good as the last. Sudbin shapes the elongated melodic lines of the Third Concerto with craftsmanship, retaining precision as themes become interwoven.

July 2018

In the Concerto No 2, Sudbin takes a relatively quick line through the score, almost as fast as Hough (Hyperion) in the opening Moderato and over a minute swifter in that movement than Tharaud’s mightily impressive Erato account. His Adagio sostenuto is significantly fleeter than these two exemplary rivals but still makes the movement sing as it should. In the finale, and throughout No 3, Sudbin is less markedly different in matters of tempo but, more importantly, communicates his vision of the works with clarity and persuasiveness. These are accounts that compare well with as interpretations with any forebears (Hough and Tharaud included) and certainly superior to recent rivals from Buniatishvili and (No 2 only) Giltburg.

March 2018

Sudbin’s uncompromising, often acerbic take on two Romantic warhorses won’t please everyone (his phrasing borders on the brusque in places), but it throws up some fascinating perspectives. I’ve never been so aware of this music’s kinship with Prokofiev and Shostakovich, and in particular the percussive, almost neo-Classical elements in some of the solo writing.

Classics Today

There are elegant, intelligent performances from a soloist who’s clearly thought about the music and knows how to get what he wants out of it. In the Second Concerto, Sudbin throws down the gauntlet right at the start with an unusually swift and (as it turns out) in-tempo account of the introductory chords. Unlike so many hot shot virtuosi, he doesn’t try to overwhelm the orchestra when it enters with the first subject–he understands that in this work he accompanies the ensemble as much as the other way around.

CD Choice

The grand finale of Sudbin’s Rachmaninov cycle combines the two best-loved concertos – No. 2 in C minor and No. 3 in D minor. His partners in these are the BBC Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor Sakari Oramo, the perfect companions.

Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3

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