Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto Nos. 1 & 3 & Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F sharp minor
Xiayin Wang (piano)
This is one of the freshest and most enjoyable accounts [of Tchaikovsky 1] I have heard for a long time. In Xiayin Wang’s hands and supported superbly by the impressive Scottish players and...
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto Nos. 1 & 3 & Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F sharp minor
Xiayin Wang (piano)
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This is one of the freshest and most enjoyable accounts [of Tchaikovsky 1] I have heard for a long time. In Xiayin Wang’s hands and supported superbly by the impressive Scottish players and...
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Following her acclaimed recording of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in 2016 (Editor’s Choice, Gramophone), Xiayin Wang here completes the trio with No. 1 and the posthumously published No. 3, alongside Scriabin’s only concerto. Whether Tchaikovsky gave his consent to the virtuoso Alexander Ziloti to revise his Piano Concerto No. 1 is unknown, but Wang here presents the lesser-recorded original version. Piano Concerto No. 3 was originally begun as a symphony, all of which except the first movement was ultimately abandoned; that surviving movement was later completed as a singlemovement concert work for piano and orchestra. Scriabin finished his piano concerto in only a few days, although it took months to orchestrate it before the 1897 premiere. Sensitively played by Wang, the concerto shows a naïve charm that even Scriabin, at his most translucent, would struggle to recapture once his career got underway.
Contents and tracklist
- Xiayin Wang (piano)
- Royal Scottish National Orchestra
- Peter Oundjian
- Recorded: 22 & 23 April 2018
- Recording Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Xiayin Wang (piano)
- Royal Scottish National Orchestra
- Peter Oundjian
- Recorded: 22 & 23 April 2018
- Recording Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Xiayin Wang (piano)
- Royal Scottish National Orchestra
- Peter Oundjian
- Recorded: 22 & 23 April 2018
- Recording Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Awards and reviews
December 2018
This is one of the freshest and most enjoyable accounts [of Tchaikovsky 1] I have heard for a long time. In Xiayin Wang’s hands and supported superbly by the impressive Scottish players and their conductor, the concerto takes on the narrative of a tone poem in an account of commendable brio and clarity…This is among the most deeply felt and warm-hearted accounts [of No. 3] you will hear.
CD Choice March 2019
It’s an absolute winner, as is her reading of the Scriabin concerto.