Eric Guo, Oh! Orchestra, Vaclav Luks
Release Date: 12 July 2024
Label: NIFCCD
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5905683648028
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
Portraits of the most interesting personalities of the Second International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments open with an album of its winner, the young Canadian virtuoso, Eric Guo. The album includes the Mazurkas, Op. 59, the Waltz in A flat major, Op. 42 (fragments of the second stage recital), and the final Concerto in E minor - with the {oh!} Orchestra under the baton of Vaclav Luks. It is a valuable document and at the same time an extremely interesting picture of Eric Guo's personality, temperament, sensitivity, and his very individual yet coherent and thoughtful interpretation of Chopin's works.
In the album booklet, Marcin Majchrowski writes: 'I look through the notes from the competition auditions - the words 'delicacy' and 'calmness' recur repeatedly in them. Delicacy in the context of sound and timbre, pianistic touche. Calmness in relation to interpretative effects. Eric Guo seems unique in this respect - on the one hand, aware of the performance possibilities of period instruments; on the other, understanding that forcing dynamics or tempo brings little but a cheap effect. He simply does not chase glitz. He respects the time and space in which music materialises through the sounds produced by the piano.'
"Guo proves not only that a fortepiano can 'sing' beautifully in this music but also that it can provide ample power for the virtuoso writing." – Gramophone
Tracklisting
Cyprien Katsaris
Mateusz Kowalski; Lorenzo Coppola; {oh!} Orkiestra; Martyna Pastuszka
Vadym Kholodenko
Ewa Poblocka
Maria Joao Pires
Halina Czerny-Stefanska
Ewa Poblocka
Eric Guo, Oh! Orchestra, Vaclav Luks
London Sinfonietta; David Atherton
Antal Dorati; Philharmonia Hungarica
Karel Ancerl; Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Yoichi Sugiyama
David Rabinovich
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
