ALEXANDER TCHEREPNIN (1899-1977): Piano Concertos No. 1, Op. 12 and No. 3, Op. 48, Festmusik, Op. 45a, Symphonic March, Op. 80.
Catalogue Number: 05J006
Label: BIS
Reference: CD-1317
Format: CD
Price: $19.98
Description: This fourth disc completes BIS' cycle of all six piano concertos and four symphonies with the highly virtuosic, musically conservative (somewhere between Glazunov and Sibelius) Concerto No. 1 of 1919 which is a 19-minute long single movement in sonata form. Just a minute shorter, the two-movement Third (1932) comes from Tcherepnin's modernist phase whose piano writing is often concerned with the intricate interplay of voices although the overall effect is one of sustained kinetic energy. Festmusik is a suite from a failed opera (The Wedding of Solbeide), published in 1931, and colored by Armenian, Turkish and Georgian melodies and rhythms while the 1951 Symphonic March was written while Tcherepnin was teaching at De Paul in Chicago and is a lively populist work of just over five minutes. Noriko Ogawa (piano), Singapore Symphony Orchestra; Lan Shui.