Hans Rosbaud conducts Chopin: Piano Concertos No. 1 & 2

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The orchestral introduction is strongly characterised, the tight bright trumpets puncturing but not destabilising the texture. Magaloff’s clarity of articulation in the slow movement and confident... — MusicWeb International, November 2019 More…

Release Date: 10th May 2019
Catalogue No: SWR19076CD
Label: SWR Music
Length: 68 minutes

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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21

Work length31:19

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$9.05

Nikita Magaloff
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Hans Rosbaud

I. Maestoso

Track length13:47

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$3.85

II. Larghetto

Track length9:33

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$2.60

III. Allegro vivace

Track length7:59

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$2.60

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

Work length37:22

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Hans Richter-Haaser
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Hans Rosbaud

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length18:42

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$5.15

II. Romance. Larghetto

Track length9:40

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$2.60

III. Rondo. Vivace

Track length9:00

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Hans Richter-Haaser (1912–1980) hailed from Braunschweig. He held a piano lectureship at the Braunschweig Academy before moving to Detmold. From there he pursued a busy concert career in Germany and abroad, especially in the USA. His specialist field was classical and early Romantic repertoire. Nikita Magaloff (1912–1992) was born in St. Petersburg. After the October Revolution his family first moved to Finland and later to Paris. From 1949 Magaloff lived in Switzerland, where he taught at the Geneva Academy. He was not only a renowned Chopin interpreter, but also a keen chamber musician. The focus of Chopin’s concertos is always on the virtuosity of the soloist, whereas the orchestra’s function is to provide the accompaniment. Latterly, conductors tried to make the orchestration sound much more complex and colourful. This Hans Rosbaud recording, however, finds him scrupulously following the score's original intentions, with single-instrument tonal colours especially shown to their best advantage.

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November 2019

The orchestral introduction is strongly characterised, the tight bright trumpets puncturing but not destabilising the texture. Magaloff’s clarity of articulation in the slow movement and confident projection in the finale are alike admirable.

Hans Rosbaud conducts Chopin: Piano Concertos No. 1 & 2

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