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Throughout, Bavouzet displays a light touch and laudable levels of physical stamina, with a firm grasp of the very different personalities of each piece. Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic perform... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2014 More…

Release Date: 3rd Feb 2014
Catalogue No: CHAN10802(2)
Label: Chandos
Length: 2 hours 1 minute

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Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 10

Work length15:30

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Gianandrea Noseda, BBC Philharmonic, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Recorded: 5 November 2012
Recording Venue: MediaCity UK, Salford

I. Allegro brioso - Poco più mosso

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II. Meno mosso - Più mosso

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III. Andante assai - Tranquillo, decrescendo e

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IV. Allegro scherzando - Pochissimo meno mosso

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Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 16

Work length31:21

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Gianandrea Noseda, BBC Philharmonic, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Recorded: 8-9 August 2013
Recording Venue: MediaCity UK, Salford

I. Andantino - Allegretto - Poco meno mosso

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II. Scherzo. Vivace

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III. Intermezzo. Allegro moderato

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IV. Finale. Allegro tempestoso - Meno mosso

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Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26

Work length27:48

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Gianandrea Noseda, BBC Philharmonic, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Recorded: 29 June 2012
Recording Venue: MediaCity UK, Salford

I. Andante - Allegro - Più mosso - Andante

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II. Tema. Andantino

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III. Allegro ma non tropo - Poco più mosso - Meno mosso

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Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 53

Work length23:42

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Gianandrea Noseda, BBC Philharmonic, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Recorded: 5 November 2012
Recording Venue: MediaCity UK, Salford

I. Vivace

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II. Andante

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III. Moderato - Allegro moderato - Meno mosso

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IV. Vivace

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Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 55

Work length23:06

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Gianandrea Noseda, BBC Philharmonic, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Recorded: 11 September 2013
Recording Venue: MediaCity UK, Salford

I. Allegro con brio - Più mosso - Meno mosso

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II. Moderato ben accentuato - Più mosso

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III. Toccata. Allegro con fuoco

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IV. Larghetto - Più mosso - Poco meno mosso

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V. Vivo - Appena più mosso - Più mosso

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Exclusive Chandos artist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performs all five of Prokofiev's formidable piano concertos in partnership with Gianandrea Noseda conducting the BBC Philharmonic.

Bavouzet’s flair for powerful twentieth-century repertoire was made clear in his recording of Bartok’s Piano Concertos, described by The Telegraph as ‘vibrant in colour, vital in rhythm and detail and viscerally exciting in impact.’ Prokofiev wrote these works between 1911 and 1932, mostly as performing vehicles for himself during his most active period as a pianist of astonishing gifts. The First Concerto is for the most part a youthful jeu d’esprit, full of rhythmical energy, but its brief slow movement is surprisingly tragic. The Second Concerto poses some of the most significant technical challenges in the entire piano repertoire, its vivid and athletic keyboard writing pushing the boundaries of what is playable. The Third Concerto in C major, a bright and breezy vehicle for Prokofiev to showcase his talents as a performer, is today his most popular piano concerto. Numbers 4 and 5 are the least well known, having been written at a time when Prokofiev was pushing his musical language to new extremes. However, both concertos contain slow movements that are full of wistful lyricism, foreshadowing the melodic impulse revealed in later works, such as Romeo and Juliet.

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March 2014

Throughout, Bavouzet displays a light touch and laudable levels of physical stamina, with a firm grasp of the very different personalities of each piece. Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic perform like soulmates for the duration, and with superb notes by the Prokofiev scholar David Nice as part of the deal, you can hardly go wrong.

2nd March 2014

[Bavouzet] dispatches the bravura passages with élan, yet captures the yearning nostalgia for the Russian émigré’s homeland in his haunting, lyrical slow movements. Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Phillies are ideal partners in this enterprising set, which should win friends for these less familiar works.

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