Zlata Chochieva, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Heinz Steffens – Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov & Tsfasman: Works for Piano and Orchestra (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:04:12 minutes | 2,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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The pianist Zlata Chochieva is well known for creating unexpected associations. In “Chiaroscuro”, her first album for naive (V7542, 2022), she had combined the worlds of Scriabin and Mozart, in whom she hears not only the same desire for clarity and weightlessness but also a similar poetic sense of rhetoric. Her next album (“i’m Freien”, V7959, 2023), a homage to nature, revealed alongside Ravel’s Miroirs and Schumann’s Waldszenen a short cycle, so little known and graceful (Petite Histoire), by Felix Draeseke! No wonder she is now offering us, for her first album with orchestra, one of the most obscure works of Russian Romanticism, the Piano Concerto by Rimsky-Korsakov.Written in 1883 in memory of Franz Liszt, whose two opuses in the genre strongly influenced the author of Scheherazade, this Concerto, with it’s monothematic structure, built on a Russian folk theme, had greatly impressed Balakirev, who was surprised to hear such an idiomatically written soloist part, from a composer who was not a pianist himself. At the age of fourteen, Zlata Chochieva had played the work under the direction of Mikhail Pletnev, then head of the Russian National Orchestra.
Tracklist:
1-01. Zlata Chochieva – Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 30: I. Moderato – Allegretto quasi polacca (06:21)
1-02. Zlata Chochieva – Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 30: II. Andante mosso (03:48)
1-03. Zlata Chochieva – Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 30: III. Allegro (04:13)
1-04. Zlata Chochieva – Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16: I. Andantino – Allegretto (11:51)
1-05. Zlata Chochieva – Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16: II. Scherzo (02:33)
1-06. Zlata Chochieva – Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16: III. Intermezzo (06:28)
1-07. Zlata Chochieva – Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16: IV. Finale (11:39)
1-08. Zlata Chochieva – Jazz Suite: I. Snowflakes (04:12)
1-09. Zlata Chochieva – Jazz Suite: II. Lyrical Waltz (04:53)
1-10. Zlata Chochieva – Jazz Suite: III. Polka (04:31)
1-11. Zlata Chochieva – Jazz Suite: IV. Career (03:39)
