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Russia, Moscow, 6 Decemer 2012, Moscow International Performing Arts Center.
Pianoforte: Marc-André Hamelin.
Conductor: Dmitriy Vasilyev.
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Россия, Москва, 6 декабря 2012 г., Московский международный Дом музыки.
Исполнитель: Марк-Андре Амлен.
Дирижёр: Дмитрий Васильев.
Anton Rubinstein's D minor Piano Concerto, once in the repertoire of both Rachmaninov and Paderewski, has been recorded by several great pianists of the past including Grigory Ginsburg, Friedrich Wührer, Oscar Levant and Raymond Lewenthal. But the most important recordings are of two live performances (1937 and 1945) by Josef Hofmann, Rubinstein's only private pupil. Through Hofmann's playing we hear more than mere glimpses of the style the composer would have brought to this work. Rubinstein was the first great international Russian pianist, a teacher, conductor and prolific composer in every form, who was viewed in his day as a true giant in the musical firmament. Hans von Bülow called him "the Michelangelo of Music".
Rubinstein wrote eight works for piano and orchestra. His five piano concertos were composed between 1850 and 1874, though two earlier concertos, now lost, were written in 1849 and a third such work was revised and published as the Octet, Op 9. The present Concerto was written in 1864, though the final version we know today did not appear until 1872, by which time two other versions had already been published. In the traditional three movements, the first is in sonata form with a massive solo cadenza inserted towards the end. The lyrical Andante (in F major), with a contrasting agitated middle section, contains some of Rubinstein's most affecting writing. The dance-like character of the fiery finale is closer to a Polish cracovienne than to any Russian folk dance, while its genial second subject recalls Schumann. The Concerto finishes in a satisfyingly blistering coda in D major. Rubinstein dedicated it to the violinist Ferdinand David, who in 1845 had given the first performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.
If you liked this performance, then you may purchase the brilliant studio recording by Hamelin through Hyperion's official site:
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=SACDA67508
