Prokofiev / Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV / PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY
Prokofiev / Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos
Beatrice Rana (piano) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
[ Warner Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 15 January 2016
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At just 22, Beatrice Rana has already made a big splash on the international scene. Winning the 1st Prize and all special prizes at the Montreal International competition in 2011 at the age of 18, was followed in June 2013 with winning the Silver Medal and the Audience Award at the prestigious Van Cliburn competition. She is already a seasoned performer, having made her orchestral debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Santa-Cecilia Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, RAI Symphony Torino, Dresdner Philharmonie, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and Filharmonica della Scala, performing in halls including the Zurich Tonhalle, Vienna Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall, Kennedy Center, Laeiszhalle, and Walt Disney Hall.
In a testament to her musical maturity and the high quality of her playing, she is accompanied on her debut Warner Classics release by Italy's finest orchestra, the Orchestra Dell'accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, under their Music Director Sir Antonio Pappano. This album is a tour de force, demonstrating the very best of Italian musicianship today.
"As word began to trickle out from Fort Worth during the 2013 Van Cliburn Competition, her name kept coming up: the young Italian who had to be heard to be believed. And though she was awarded the silver medal rather than the gold, as she toured Stateside the buzz continued to grow. In a word? Beatrice Rana is fierce! And not only as a pianist but as a fully developed artist of a stature that belies her tender years. The concerto debut of a young pianist garnering much praise - and on the strength of this disc, quite right too!" (Editor's Choice Gramophone December 2015)
"[the Prokofiev] presents formidable technical challenges, all of which are surmounted almost with nonchalance, the pianist's focus resolutely serving the score, not the mechanisms involved in performing it. She has a particularly rewarding sense of rhythm, high sprung, light and incisive and entirely secure…[there is] no doubt that this is a young pianist to be watched" BBC Music Magazine Disc of the month Feb 2016
BBC Music Magazine Newcomer Award 2017
Tracks:
Prokofiev:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16
Tchaikovsky:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
