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Tcherepnin – Complete Symphonies & Piano Concertos

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Catalogue numberBIS-1717 CD
Release date2008-10-10
Discs4
Orig. sample rate44100Hz (Disc 1: 16-bit)
Total time274:09

This album is also available as an album bundle.

This boxed set includes the first complete recorded cycle of Alexander Tcherepnin’s symphonies and piano concertos, along with four shorter orchestral scores. The striking stylistic diversity within this body of work illustrates the complex evolution of Tcherepnin’s style during a half-century-long odyssey both artistic and geographic. Born in St Petersburg Tcherepnin would pursues his dual career as composer and pianist all over the world: from Tbilisi in Georgia to Paris and central Europe, from Shanghai and Tokyo to Brussels and back to Paris, and ultimately from Chicago and New York to England and Switzerland. His inspiration came from sources as diverse as Prokofiev, avant-garde circles in Paris during the 1920s and Far Eastern pentatonic idioms explored during lengthy stays in China and Japan.

Tcherepnin’s development can be charted throughout these four discs, from the First Piano Concerto, composed in 1919, to the works of the 1960s. In the words of Benjamin Folkman, Tcherepnin’s biographer and the compiler of the liner notes for this title, ‘what one hears is the music of a composer who is not so much reinventing himself as seeking an artistic orientation that gains in coherence by growing ever more comprehensive: a composer secure in his faith that, while the musical impulse is a universal human phenomenon, each musical work is a world unto itself.’

The recordings included in this set were originally released on single CDs, and have all received lavish praise, both for the fascinating repertoire and for the highly sympathetic performances by Singapore Symphony Orchestra under Lan Shui (Classica-Répertoire: ‘The orchestra possesses a high degree of virtuosity and plays with conviction and impressive musicality’) and for Noriko Ogawa’s interpretations (Fanfare: ‘In everything Noriko Ogawa tackles, she comes up shining: Her playing customarily blends brilliance and power in equal measure, and here again she's just as good as she has now led us to expect.’)
 
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Disc 1
  Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 42 (1927) 24:27
01 I. Maestoso – Allegro risoluto 06:57 $ 1.32 USD
02 II. Vivace 02:33 $ 0.48 USD
03 III. Andante 08:28 $ 1.61 USD
04 IV. Allegretto con anima – Presto 06:29 $ 1.23 USD
 
  Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 96 (1963) (M.P. Belaieff ) 23:50
05 I. Allegro moderato 11:27 $ 2.18 USD
06 II. Andantino 04:12 $ 0.80 USD
07 III. Animato, ma poco rubato – Molto animato –
Tranquillo – Animato
08:11 $ 1.55 USD
 
  Symphony No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 77 (1947–51) 25:15
08 I. Sostenuto – Allegro 09:57 $ 1.89 USD
09 II. Lento 04:57 $ 0.94 USD
10 III. Allegro 04:20 $ 0.82 USD
11 IV. Poco sostenuto – Allegretto 06:01 $ 1.14 USD
 
 
Disc 2
  Symphony No. 3 in F sharp major, Op. 83 (1952) 26:14
01 I. Lento – Animato, risoluto – Allegretto 10:54 $ 2.07 USD
02 II. Allegro pesante 02:36 $ 0.49 USD
03 III. Adagio 07:05 $ 1.35 USD
04 IV. Allegro – Maestoso – Allegro risoluto 05:39 $ 1.07 USD
 
  Piano Concerto No. 6, Op. 99 (1965) 25:41
05 I. Allegro 10:01 $ 1.90 USD
06 II. Andantino 08:57 $ 1.70 USD
07 III. Animato 06:43 $ 1.28 USD
 
  Symphony No. 4 in E major, Op. 91 (1958–59) 26:39
08 I. Moderato 09:14 $ 1.75 USD
09 II. Allegro, tempo di valse 06:33 $ 1.24 USD
10 III. Andante con moto 10:52 $ 2.06 USD
 
 
Disc 3
01 Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 12 (1918–19) 18:44 $ 3.56 USD
 
  Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 48 (1931–32) 17:55
02 I. Moderato 09:57 $ 1.89 USD
03 II. Allegro 07:58 $ 1.51 USD
 
  Festmusik, Op. 45a (1930) 11:36
04 I. Ouverture. Presto 03:08 $ 0.60 USD
05 II. Einzug. Maestoso 02:26 $ 0.46 USD
06 III. Tanz. Allegro 01:52 $ 0.35 USD
07 IV. Finale. Allegro grazioso 04:10 $ 0.79 USD
 
08 Symphonic March, Op.80 (1951) 05:36 $ 1.06 USD
 
 
Disc 4
01 Symphonic Prayer, Op. 93 (1959) 06:51 $ 1.30 USD
 
02 Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 26 (1923) 17:38 $ 3.35 USD
 
03 Magna mater, Op. 41 (1926–27) 09:01 $ 1.71 USD
 
  Piano Concerto No. 4 (Fantaisie), Op. 78 (1947) 28:51
04 I. Eastern Chamber Dream. Moderato 16:06 $ 3.06 USD
05 II. Yan Kuei Fei’s Love Sacrifice. Sostenuto – Animato 08:13 $ 1.56 USD
06 III. Road to Yunnan. Allegretto 04:32 $ 0.86 USD
 
  Album total 274:09
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