Piano Concertos by Serge Prokofiev and Aram Khachaturian
PIANO CONCERTOS BY SERGE PROKOFIEV AND ARAM KHACHATURIAN Nareh Arghamanyan Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin Alain Altinoglu Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) Piano Concerto in D flat (1936) 1 Allegro maestoso 15. 32 2 Andante con anima 11. 21 3 Allegro brillante 9. 50 Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953) Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 (1917-1921) 4 Andante-Allegro 10. 13 5 Tema – Andantino 9. 48 Var. 1 – Listesso tempo Var. 2 – Allegro Var. 3 – Allegro moderato (poco meno mosso) Var. 4 – Andante meditativo Var. 5 – Allegro giusto Tema – Listesso tempo 6 Allegro ma non troppo 10. 27 Total playing time 67. 17 Nareh Arghamanyan, piano Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin Erez Ofer, concertmaster Alain Altinoglu, conductor This album has been recorded at the Haus des Rundfunks, RBB Berlin, Germany in October 2013. Aram Khachaturian was seen leaning against a birch tree in a corner of the park, tears pouring Concerto for Piano down his cheeks... and Orchestra in D Resurgence around the Black Sea flat major Transcaucasia (= South Caucasus), July 12, 1937 saw the official première behind the Caucasus mountains – of Aram Khachaturian’s hugely Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. powerful Piano Concerto. The concert For centuries, the various Christian, took place under the open sky in Arab and Persian cultures had Sokolniki Park in central Moscow, enjoyed a mutually beneficial co- featuring as soloist 29-year-old existence, until the collapse of the Lev Oborin, Soviet master-pianist USSR, when the region turned into a and winner of the First Chopin focal point of bloody military clashes, Competition in 1927. However, a hotbed of corruption, religious a hastily assembled orchestra wars, and separatism.
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