林姆斯基.高沙可夫/普羅高菲夫/崔法斯曼: 鋼琴與管弦樂團作品集 裘琪耶娃 鋼琴 史蒂芬斯 指揮 BBC蘇格蘭交響樂團 Zlata Chochieva / Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov & Tsfasman

林姆斯基.高沙可夫/普羅高菲夫/亞歷山大.崔法斯曼: 鋼琴協奏曲
姿拉塔.裘琪耶娃 鋼琴
卡爾.海因茨.史蒂芬斯 指揮
BBC蘇格蘭交響樂團

The pianist Zlata Chochieva is well known for creating unexpected associations. In "Chiaroscuro", her first album for naive (V7542, 2022), she had combined the worlds of Scriabin and Mozart, in whom she hears not only the same desire for clarity and weightlessness but also a similar poetic sense of rhetoric. Her next album ("im Freien", V7959, 2023), a homage to nature, revealed alongside Ravel's Miroirs and Schumann's Waldszenen a short cycle, so little known and graceful (Petite histoire), by Felix Draeseke! No wonder she is now offering us, for her first album with orchestra, one of the most obscure works of Russian Romanticism, the Piano Concerto by Rimsky-Korsakov

Written in 1883 in memory of Franz Liszt, whose two opuses in the genre strongly influenced the author of Scheherazade, this Concerto, with its monothematic structure, built on a Russian folk theme, had greatly impressed Balakirev, who was surprised to hear such an idiomatically written soloist part, from a composer who was not a pianist himself. At the age of fourteen, Zlata Chochieva had played the work under the direction of Mikhail Pletnev, then head of the Russian National Orchestra. This Concerto remains for her a "miracle of taste, poetry and inspiration". Her intelligent and limpid playing is ideally suited to the very delicate lyricism that Rimsky-Korsakov deploys throughout this astonishing score full of numerous and subtle contrasts.