Zlata Chochieva, Karl-Heinz Steffens, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tsfasman (2015)
Zlata Chochieva, Karl-Heinz Steffens, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tsfasman: Works for piano and orchestra (2025)
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Classical | Label: Naïve | # V8448 | Recorded: 2024
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 248 Mb | Total time: 64:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # V8448 | Recorded: 2024
The pianist Zlata Chochieva is well known for creating unexpected associations. In "Chiaroscuro", her first album for naive (V7542, 2022), she had combined the worlds of Scriabin and Mozart, in whom she hears not only the same desire for clarity and weightlessness but also a similar poetic sense of rhetoric. Her next album ("i'm Freien", V7959, 2023), a homage to nature, revealed alongside Ravel's Miroirs and Schumann's Waldszenen a short cycle, so little known and graceful (Petite Histoire), by Felix Draeseke! No wonder she is now offering us, for her first album with orchestra, one of the most obscure works of Russian Romanticism, the Piano Concerto by Rimsky-Korsakov. Written in 1883 in memory of Franz Liszt, whose two opuses in the genre strongly influenced the author of Scheherazade, this Concerto, with it's monothematic structure, built on a Russian folk theme, had greatly impressed Balakirev, who was surprised to hear such an idiomatically written soloist part, from a composer who was not a pianist himself. At the age of fourteen, Zlata Chochieva had played the work under the direction of Mikhail Pletnev, then head of the Russian National Orchestra. This Concerto remains for her a "miracle of taste, poetry and inspiration". Her intelligent and limpid playing is ideally suited to the very delicate lyricism that Rimsky-Korsakov deploys throughout this astonishing score full of numerous and subtle contrasts.At the heart of this recording, where Zlata Chochieva is joined by the musicians of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the German conductor Karl-Heinz Steffens, surges the merciless ardor of Sergei Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto. In a departure from the stormy way in which this formidable score (for the fingers) is generally approached by pianists, Zlata Chochieva prefers a certain sense of phantasmagoria, rightly recalling that Prokofiev, as a spiritual disciple of Alexander Borodin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, enjoyed stories, old Russian fairy tales and legends.After this, we have a total change of atmosphere with the Jazz Suite for piano and orchestra by Alexander Tsfasman which concludes the album. An eminent disciple of Felix Blumenfeld, an incredibly talented pianist, to whom Shostakovich intended piano part of one of his film scores, Tsfasman introduced American jazz to the Soviet Union, and formed the first orchestra dedicated to the genre. In Russia, he premiered Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin, a composer for whom he had the deepest admiration. A brilliantly written, comforting and sincere score, his Jazz Suite sometimes evokes the American composer but above all Hollywood and Soviet film scores. Not without a most contagious and mischievous pleasure, Zlata Chochieva and Karl-Heinz Steffens revel in it's ingenuous charms (Snowflakes).
Performer:
Zlata Chochieva, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor
Tracklist:
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, Op. 30
01. I. Moderato, Allegretto quassi polacca
02. II. Andante mosso
03. III. Allegro
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto no. 2 in G minor, Op. 16
04. I. Andantino, Allegretto
05. II. Scherzo (Vivace)
06. III. Intermezzo (Allegro moderato)
07. IV. Finale (Allegro tempestoso)
Alexander Tsfasman
Jazz Suite
08. I. Snowflake
09. II. Lyrical Waltz
10. III. Polka
11. IV. Fast Movement
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Zlata Chochieva, Karl-Heinz Steffens, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tsfasman (2015)
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