FORSAKEN Proudly Presents

Artist      : Grigory Sokolov
Album       : Mozart, Rachmaninov: Concertos
Label       : Deutsche Grammophon
Genre       : Classical

Street Date : 2017-03-10
Quality     : 549 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Encoder     : FLAC 1.3.1
Size        : 302.57 MB
Time        : 71:41 min
Url         : http://tinyurl.com/y74xzg2x

1.  Mozart Piano Concerto 23 In A Major K488: 1. Allegro          11:48
2.  Mozart Piano Concerto 23 In A Major K488: 2. Adagio            7:43
3.  Mozart Piano Concerto 23 In A Major K488: 3. Allegro Assai     8:14
4.  Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 3 In D Minor Op30: 1. Allegro Ma   17:27
Non Tanto
5.  Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 3 In D Minor Op30: 2. Intermezzo.  11:29

6.  Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 3 In D Minor Op30: 3. Finale. Alla 15:00

The Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov has had some Glenn
Gould-level quirks to go with, it increasingly seems, Glenn
Gould-level talent. One of those quirks is a demand for control
over auditorium lighting, but of more consequence has been
Sokolov's total refusal to record in a studio. He has relented to
the degree that he has signed a contract with Deutsche Grammophon
allowing the release of selected live recordings, and albums like
this one have allowed those not lucky enough to cross Sokolov's
concert path to experience what they've been missing. The two
recordings come from different concerts, ten years apart. The
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488, was recorded at
Salzburg's Mozart Week in 2005, with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra
under Trevor Pinnock. It's a beautiful recording of the work,
with hypnotically songful phrasing in the outer movements
especially. But it's the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 in D
minor, Op. 30, that really stands out. Recorded at the Royal
Albert Hall in 1995, with Yan Pascal Tortelier and the BBC
Philharmonic Orchestra doing yeoman's work in keeping up with an
extraordinary performance by Sokolov in which brilliance and
interiority intertwine seamlessly. Sample anywhere, really: the
first movement (track 4) provides abundant evidence of what makes
the reserved English audience explode in cheers at the end. This
is a landmark performance in the grand Russian tradition. As a
bonus you get not only a film about Sokolov by Russian producer
Nadia Zhdanova, but also poems by Sokolov's late wife Inna
Sokolova in the booklet. A real treat.