NEW ON The World’s Leading ClassicalNAXOS Music Label SEPTEMBER 2016 © Kirill Bashkirov Eldar Nebolsin This Month’s Other Highlights © 2016 Naxos Rights US, Inc. • Contact Us:
[email protected] www.naxos.com • www.classicsonlinehd.com • www.naxosmusiclibrary.com • blog.naxos.com NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2016 8.573462 Playing Time 57:45 7 47313 34627 1 © Nikolai Kuznetsov Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893) Key Features ● Tchaikovsky’s name needs no introduction, but both his Second Piano Concerto No. 2 Piano Concerto and the Concert Fantasy remain under- Concert Fantasia performed and relatively under-recorded, certainly in comparison Eldar Nebolsin, Piano to the massively popular First Piano Concerto. We have visited New Zealand Symphony Orchestra this repertoire before, most recently in 2007 as a completion Michael Stern of Konstantin Scherbakov’s acclaimed cycle of Tchaikovsky’s complete works for piano and orchestra (8.557824), but the Tchaikovsky has long maintained his position as among the most sizzling combination of Eldar Nebolsin and the New Zealand popular of all composers, his unequalled gift for melody and colourful Symphony Orchestra has proven irresistible. orchestration given added depth through a rich Russian soulfulness. ● Eldar Nebolsin’s recording of Liszt’s piano concertos (8.570517) The Second Piano Concerto has always lived under the shadow of was ranked “among the finest” by Gramophone, and acclaim for the famous First but, played here in the composer’s original version, his recordings of Chopin’s two piano concertos both on CD and is full of life-enhancing character and emotion.