BBC Music Magazine. Mendelssohn
BBC Music Magazine, December 2014 Felix Mendelssohn—Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra South Jutland Symphony Orchestra / Cond. David Porcelijn Danacord DACOCD 734-736
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BBC Music Magazine. Pabst Scriabin Concertos
BBC Music CHOICE Virtuosity with charm: Oleg Marshev gives winning accounts of three concertos MARSHEV'S STYLISH TRIO DAVID NICE welcomes Oleg Marshev back in sparkling form. PABST Piano Concerto in E fiat RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Piano Concerto in C sharp minor SCRIABIN Piano Concerto in F sharp minor Oleg Marshev (piano); South Jutland SO/Vladimir Ziva Danacord DACOCD 660 73:52 mins This is Oleg Marshev's finest disc since his stylish accounts of the two Shostakovich concertos. (more…)
BBC Music Magazine online, Pabst/Skriabin concertos
Classical-Music.com The official website of BBC Music Magazine Pabst; Rimsky-Korsakov; Scriabin This is Oleg Marshev’s finest disc since his stylish accounts of the two Shostakovich concertos. He includes a genuine rarity which has not even surfaced on Hyperion’s Romantic Concertos series, the rather ordinary specimen by Königsberg-born, Russocentric Pavel Pabst (1854-97). Calum MacDonald’s liner notes suggest that ‘the date of the work, its tonality and its thematic structure’ may have been tailored to the 1883 coronation of Tsar Alexander the Third. Be that as it may, it’s short on truly distinctive grandeur, but it does give Marshev a chance to display both muscular virtuosity and light transcendentalism, executed as well as anyone could wish. The other concertos on the disc are touched...
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE, Shostakovich
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE March 2003 Shostakovich Concerto for Piano, Trumpet & Strings; Piano Concerto no. 2; 24 Preludes, Op. 34 Oleg Marshev (piano) Helsingborg SO/ Hannu Lintu Danacord DACOCD 601 Shostakovich Concerto for Piano, Trumpet & Strings; Piano Concerto no.2; Ustvolskaya Concerto for Piano, Timpani & Strings Ingrid Jacoby (piano), RPO/Charles Mackerras Dutton CDSA 4804 Danacord's Shostakovich disc was the second I heard this year, and it already looks like being one of the best - which is hard on the fine rival Jacoby and Mackerras. 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 orchestra and a Finnish conductor who do...
BBC Music Magazine. Sauer Vol.6
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE October 2004 SAUER Complete Piano Music, Volume 6 Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor. Galop de concert. Cinq Morceaux de Difficulte moyenne. Petite Scene de ballet. Menuet Vieux style. Polka de Concert Oleg Marshev, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra / James Loughran Danacord DACOCD 596 Like many pianists of his generation the Liszt pupil Emil von Sauer was a prolific composer, his output focusing almost exclusively on his own instrument. For the most part Sauer wrote virtuoso salon music designed to show off his prowess as an interpreter, but from time to time he also tackled more ambitious genres, completing two sonatas and two concertos. Collectors of Hyperion's indispensable Romantic Piano Concerto series will no doubt be familiar...
BBC Music Magazine. Sauer Vol.4
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE April 2001 Sauer Piano Sonata n.2 in E flat, etc. Oleg Marshev (piano) / Danacord DACOCD 534 / 67:11 DDD Oleg Marshev has recorded four CDs of Emil von Sauer’s piano music and listening to them is certainly an interesting experience. First, Sauer, a virtuoso pianist who studied with Nicolai Rubinstein and briefly with Liszt, has a legendary status in pianistic circles. He composed a considerable quantity of music which was published between 1895 and 1930, including two sonatas, two concertos, two suites, 29 concert etudes and a large assortment of salon works, which are bound to hold some interest for specialists. Next, Marshev is a truly marvellous pianist. His tone is luminous and full, without a...
