Release Date: 01 January 2017
Label: Toccata Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060113443922
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Ernst Krenek
Description
Ernst Krenek’s seven piano concertos – four for solo piano, one for two pianos, one with violin and one withorgan – is one of the major concerto-series of the twentieth century, but also one of the least familiar. This second instalment in their first complete recording reveals breath-taking bravura writing. Krenek revels in a virtuoso piano technique, the dazzling orchestration and the stylistic integration ofserialism and good-natured recollection of Viennese tradition. The first volume in this series was an outstanding critical success – among many other encomia, it was a Sunday Times ‘Record of the Week’, and in his blog ‘Classical Ear’ Andrew Achenbach gave it two five-starratings and wrote: ‘Performances are first-rate: Mikhail Korzhev proves a superbly stylish, fearless andeloquent exponent, and he enjoys admirable support from a hugely spirited English Symphony Orchestraunder Kenneth Woods’s unfailingly cogent lead. Both the production and presentation likewise leave nothingto be desired’.
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