Rachmaninov/Shostakovich: Piano Concertos
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Rachmaninov/Shostakovich: Piano Concertos
Bernd Glemser (piano) Michael Houstoun (piano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 1 January 2000
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The Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major was written in 1957 for Shostakovich's son Maxim, who gave the first performance of the work on his nineteenth birthday. The work has about it a youthful appeal for performers and audience alike. The lively first movement opens with a brisk march, leading to a gentler second theme. The material is developed in the central section, and a cadenza ushers in again the principal theme to bring the movement to an end. The expressive slow movement, a romantic interlude of obviously Russian inspiration, introduced by the strings, is followed by an energetic finale, a rondo, the dance-rhythm of its principal subject contrasted with a secondary theme with an oddly lop-sided rhythm.
Also Rachmaninov Piano Concerto no.3
