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Tcherepnin - Complete Symphonies & Piano Concertos

Tcherepnin - Complete Symphonies & Piano Concertos

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Alexander Tcherepnin, composer 
Noriko Ogawa
Singapore Symphony Orchestra 
Lan Shui, conductor
  • Release Date: Oct 2008 
  • Format: CD - 4 Discs
  • Catalogue No: BIS-1717 CD
  • Label: BIS
  • Total time: 274'09 (1 disc)

4 CDs for the price of 2 

REVIEWS:
  • "Viewed overall this is a first-rate set, with sound to match." — Gramophone, May 2021
  • "But Shui and his forces are even finer, in a performance of infectious energy that carefully builds to the final section’s dazzling climax. The engineered sound is again a key ingredient to the success of the performance: the choir is perfectly balanced with the orchestra." / "Indeed, the enthusiastic and brilliance of the performances, heard in a particularly exceptional BIS SACD recording, make this album an easy recommendation." - The Classic Review, May 2021
  • "Lan Shui, his impassioned players and transported singers end the programme with a quite magnificent rendition of the Polovtsian Dances, that elemental, pounding bass drum superbly caught. (Indeed, even the great Solti is left wanting here, the Decca sound now showing its age.) In short, a thrilling, genuinely spectacular sign-off to this programme." - Musicweb International, May 2021
DISC 1
  • Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 42 (1927) (24'27)
  • Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 96 (1963) (M.P. Belaieff) (23'50)
  • Symphony No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 77 (25'15)

DISC 2 

  • Symphony No. 3 in F sharp major, Op. 83 (1952) (26'14)
  • Piano Concerto No. 6 Op. 99 (1965) (25'41)
  • Symphony No. 4 in E major, Op. 91 (1958-59) (26'39)

DISC 3

  • Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 12 (1918-19) (17'55)
  • Festmusik, Op.45a (1930) (11'36)

DISC 4 

  • Piano Concerto No. 4 (Fantaisie), Op. 78 (1947) (28'51)
This boxed set includes the first complete recorded cycle of Alexander Tcherepnin’s symphonies and piano concertos, along with four shorter orchestral scores. The striking stylistic diversity within this body of work illustrates the complex evolution of Tcherepnin’s style during a half-century-long odyssey both artistic and geographic. Born in St Petersburg Tcherepnin would pursue his dual career as composer and pianist all over the world: from Tbilisi in Georgia to Paris and central Europe, from Shanghai and Tokyo to Brussels and back to Paris, and ultimately from Chicago and New York to England and Switzerland. His inspiration came from sources as diverse as Prokofiev, avant-garde circles in Paris during the 1920s and Far Eastern pentatonic idioms explored during lengthy stays in China and Japan.

Tcherepnin’s development can be charted throughout these four discs, from the First Piano Concerto, composed in 1919, to the works of the 1960s. In the words of Benjamin Folkman, Tcherepnin’s biographer and the compiler of the liner notes for this title, ‘what one hears is the music of a composer who is not so much reinventing himself as seeking an artistic orientation that gains incoherence by growing ever more comprehensive: a composer secure in his faith that, while the musical impulse is a universal human phenomenon, each musical work is a world unto itself.’

The recordings included in this set were originally released on single CDs, and have all received lavish praise, both for the fascinating repertoire and for the highly sympathetic performances by Singapore Symphony Orchestra under Lan Shui (Classica-Répertoire: ‘The orchestra possesses a high degree of virtuosity and plays with conviction and impressive musicality’) and for Noriko Ogawa’s interpretations (Fanfare: ‘In everything Noriko Ogawa tackles, she comes up shining: Her playing customarily blends brilliance and power in equal measure, and here again she's just as good as she has now led us to expect.’) 

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