Marc-Andre Hamelin; Ilan Volkov: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Release Date: 01 April 2011
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571176352
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Composer/Series: Reger & Strauss (R)
Description
The Reger concerto has a formidable reputation—dense, harmonically complex and with far too many notes for the average pianist. Who better then to decipher it than Marc-Andre Hamelin? In his hands this rarely recorded behemoth reveals both passion and a lyricism so often lost in lesser performances. He is wonderfully partnered by Ilan Volkov and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester who share the pianist’s desire to elucidate an often misunderstood work.
While the Reger concerto comes from the end of his career, the Strauss Burleske is a product of that composer’s prodigious youth. This ebullient work has long been a Hamelin ‘party-piece’, and he plays it with an unmatched brilliance which surely captures the essence of this humorous music and will have the listener on the edge of his seat.
Tracklisting
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
Laurence Perkins
Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin
English National Opera Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
Tomas Vrana, Janacek Philharmonic Ostrava, Gabor Kali
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra|Riccardo Chailly
La Monnaie Chorus; La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra; Kazushi Ono; Jessica Niles; Lisa Willems; Sandrin
Kammerorchester Basel; Giovanni Antonini
Jascha Horenstein
Francois Leleux, Lisa Batiashvili, HR-Sinfonieorchester, Andres Orozco-Estrada
Daniel Ottensamer, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Christoph Traxler, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, St
Concerto Copenhagen, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tonu Kaljuste
