Composer: Sergey Rachmaninov
Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Sakari Oramo
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Release: 2018
Size: 1.13 GB
Recovery: +3%
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Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
01. I. Moderato
02. II. Adagio sostenuto
03. III. Allegro scherzando
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
04. I. Allegro ma non tanto
05. II. Intermezzo. Adagio
06. III. Finale. Alla breve
Recorded: February 2017
Recording Venue: Maida Vale Studios, London, United Kingdom
Over the course of almost 10 years, Yevgeny Sudbin has been recording Sergei Rachmaninov’s works for piano and orchestra. The journey began in the U.S.A. in 2008 with the Fourth Piano Concerto, and what Classic FM Magazine described as ‘a glorious recording’ with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra under Grant Llewellyn. For the Paganini Variations and Piano Concerto No. 1, Sudbin continued to Asia and highly praised collaborations with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and conductor Lan Shui. Reviewers remarked on the soloist’s ‘transcendental virtuosity and kaleidoscopic keyboard colour’ (BBC Music Magazine) and enjoyed piano-playing with ‘depth of tone, subtlety and richness of texture, and scintillating dynamism allied to acute lyrical sensibility’ (Gramophone).
The grand finale of Sudbin’s Rachmaninov cycle combines the two best-loved concertos – No. 2 in C minor and No. 3 in D minor – but it also constitutes a home-coming of a kind, as it was recorded in London, Yevgeny Sudbin’s base since 1997. For his partners in these monumental and almost iconic concertos, Sudbin has chosen the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Sakari Oramo.