DACOCD 601 [DDD]

Shostakovich
2 Piano Concertos
24 Preludes, Op. 34

Oleg Marshev, piano
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu

Marshev a phenomenon: master of every mood from strip-cartoon crispness to thundering monster, but above all a controlling sensibility of intelligence and feeling – BBC Music magazine

forse la migliore edizione dei due concerti di Shostakovich – Compact Disc Classics 

This is an outstanding disc — one of the finest, if not the finest ever, of all three works, and by a huge distance the best concerto issue to have come my way over the past 12 months – International Piano

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Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings
in C minor, Op. 35 (1933) 22:06
[ 1 ] Allegretto-Allegro vivace (attacca) 5:43
[ 2 ] Lento (attacca) 8:06
[ 3 ] Moderato (attacca)(MP3 sample Sound) 1:29
[ 4 ] Allegro con brio(MP3 sample Sound) 6:46
Jan Karlsson, trumpet

Piano Concerto No 2 in F, Op. 102 (1957) 21:09
[ 5 ] Allegro(MP3 sample Sound) 7.40
[ 6 ] Andante (attacca) 7:46
[ 7 ] Allegro 5:42

24 Preludes for piano, Op. 34 (1932-33) 33:37
[ 8 ] No. 1 Moderato 1:43
[ 9 ] No. 2 Allegretto 0:53
[10] No. 3 Andante(MP3 sample Sound) 2:24
[11] No. 4 Moderato 2:21
[12] No. 5 Allegro vivace(MP3 sample Sound) 0:31
[13] No. 6 Allegretto – Moderato 1:14
[14] No. 7 Andante 1:21
[15] No. 8 Allegretto 1:02
[16] No. 9 Presto 0:39
[17] No. 10 Moderato non troppo – Allegretto
Moderato non troppo 1:54
[18] No. 11 Allegretto 0:48
[19] No. 12 Allegro non troppo 1:14
[20] No. 13 Moderato 1:04
[21] No. 14 Adagio 2:23
[22] No. 15 Allegretto 1:04
[23] No. 16 Andantino 1:16
[24] No. 17 Largo 2:02
[25] No. 18 Allegretto 0:48
[26] No. 19 Andantino 1:34
[27] No. 20 Allegretto furioso 0:41
[28] No. 21 Allegretto poco moderato 0:52
[29] No. 22 Adagio 2:31
[30] No. 23 Moderato 1:30
[31] No. 24 Allegretto 1:37
Oleg Marshev – Piano
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu – Conductor
David Nice in BBC Music Magazine (March 2003):
Performance: 5 stars
Sound: 4 stars
Danacord’s Shostakovich disc was the second I heard this year, and it already looks like being one of the best. So what bowls me over about Marshev and company? First, perhaps, amazement at the sophisticated high standards not only from the soloist but from a regional Swedish orchcstra and a Finnish conductor who do everything in their power to make the phrases leap off the printed page. You only have to hear the piano land on the head of an especially vivid trumpeter in the opening bars of the First Concerto, or the unsurpassably characterful bassoons at the start of the Second, to know the kind of company Shostakovich is keeping here. And Marshev is a phenomenon: master of every mood from strip-cartoon crispness to thundering monster, but above all a controlling sensibility of intelligence and feeling. His concerto performances join Shostakovich (EMI) and the dazzling Bronfmann (RCA) right at the top of the list.