Anton Rubinstein: Piano Concertos No.2 and No.4

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Nosrati plays with affection and makes the most of the simple song-like theme in the slow movement [of No. 4], with limpid tone, and a sure feeling for rubato...There’s a good relationship between... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Apr 2021
Catalogue No: 555352-2
Label: CPO
Length: 71 minutes

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Rubinstein, A: Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70

Work length33:23

$9.00

$11.55

Schaghajegh Nosrati
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Róbert Farkas

I. Moderato assai

Track length12:28

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$3.85

II. Andante

Track length10:30

$3.00

$3.85

III. Allegro

Track length10:25

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$3.85

Rubinstein, A: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 35

Work length38:25

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$11.60

Schaghajegh Nosrati
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Róbert Farkas

I. Allegro vivace assai risoluto con fuoco

Track length18:22

$4.00

$5.15

II. Adagio non troppo

Track length9:45

$2.00

$2.60

III. Moderato

Track length10:18

$3.00

$3.85

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During his lifetime Anton Rubinstein was regarded as the greatest pianist among composers and as the greatest composer among pianists. He himself assigned clear functions to his two fields of activity: he concertized to live, and he lived to compose. Such a plan of action finds its greatest fulfillment when the two spheres overlap: in Anton Rubinstein's piano concertos, which were products of his compositional calling for his concert profession and works by the composer for the pianist. Thirteen years, stylistic nuances, and a decisive step on the career ladder came between his Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 4. The twenty-one-year-old's early second concerto met with a very favorable response in its time because of its marvelously beautiful tonal effects. It was then above all his fourth concerto that from the very beginning was enthusiastically received by fans of symphonic orchestral music and friends of virtuoso solo performance. Here Schaghajegh Nosrati, who is regarded as an extremely versatile musician and owing to her outstanding reputation as a Bach interpreter very early was able to establish herself as a concert pianist, interprets these works for us.

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July 2021

Nosrati plays with affection and makes the most of the simple song-like theme in the slow movement [of No. 4], with limpid tone, and a sure feeling for rubato...There’s a good relationship between her and the orchestra, both in the common purpose of the ebb and flow of the music and in the recorded sound.

Anton Rubinstein: Piano Concertos No.2 and No.4

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