Composer: Enrique Granados, Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Scriabin, Dmitri Shostakovich
Performer: Valentin Malinin, Bretón String Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8574468
Release: 2022
Size: 1.07 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet In G Minor, Op. 57
01. I. Prelude. Lento
02. II. Fugue. Adagio
03. III. Scherzo. Allegretto
04. IV. Intermezzo. Lento
05. V. Finale. Allegretto
Granados: Goyescas, Book 2
06. No. 2, Epílogo. Serenata del espectro
07. Scriabin: Valse in A-Flat Major, Op. 38
Prokofiev: 4 Etudes, op. 2
08. No. 1, Allegro
09. No. 2, Moderato
10. No. 3, Andante semplice
11. No. 4, Presto energico
12. Malinin: The Pearl Fishers (After Bizet’s WD 13)
Russian pianist Valentin Malinin, winner of the 62nd Jaén International Piano Competition, has chosen a programme that offers moments of reflection alongside dazzling virtuosity. The album opens with Shostakovich’s imposing Piano Quintet, one of the composer’s most popular chamber works. Granados evokes a ‘Ghost’s Serenade’ with guitar-like effects in the exuberant finale to his Goyescas, while Prokofiev’s Four Études are among the most complex and technically challenging works of their kind. Malinin’s own inspired fantasy The Pearl Fishers, based on Nadir’s Romance from Les Pêcheurs de perles, serves as a fine encore, reimagining Bizet’s original in daring, compelling style.