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International Record Review. Pabst/Scriabin

February 14, 2015
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International Record Review 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. Producer Lennart Dehn. Engineer Stephan Flock Listening to these captivating performances, with all concerned playing as though they believed in every note, reminded me of Vox's 1970s heyday in the UK on Decca Turnabout when 99p would buy you Michel Ponti playing Balakirev, Lyapunov or Tchaikovsky's Second with a scorching abandon and imperativeness that in many ways has never been surpassed on disc. (more…)

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BBC Music Magazine. Pabst Scriabin Concertos

February 14, 2015
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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…)

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BBC Music Magazine online, Pabst/Skriabin concertos

February 14, 2015
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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...

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GRAMOPHONE, Pabst

February 13, 2015
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GRAMOPHONE June 1997 Pabst Fantasie on “Mazeppa” (Tchaikovsky). Paraphrase on “Eugene Onegin” (Tchaikovsky). Reminiscences of “The Demon” (Rubinstein). Paraphrase on “Sleeping Beauty” (Tchaikovsky). Illustrations of “The Queen of Spades” (Tchaikovsky). Tchaikovsky (arr. Pabst) Cradle Song, Op. 16 No. 1. Oleg Marshev (pf) / Danacord DACOCD450 / 68 DDD Pavel Pabst (1854-97, his name is often anglicized to Paul Pabst) did not achieve the fame of his pianistic colleagues mainly because he chose to concentrate on teaching (his pupils included Lyapunov and Goldenweiser) rather than performing. He is known today chiefly through his Paraphrase on “Eugene Onegin”, and his other paraphrases remain largely unfamiliar. In adopting Liszt's model Pabst inherited many of the essential ingredients, but his piano textures are generally...

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Rimsky-Korsakov – Pabst – Scriabin Piano Concertos

February 12, 2015
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DACOCD 660 [DDD] Rimsky-Korsakov - Pabst - Scriabin Piano Concertos Oleg Marshev, piano South Jutland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ziva BBC Music CHOICE. Virtuosity with charm: Oleg Marshev gives winning accounts of three concertos Oleg Marshev’s finest disc - BBC Music Magazine online International Record Review  (more…)

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Piano Time. Sauer, Pabst, Strauss

February 12, 2015
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PIANO TIME 2000 P. Pabst Opera and Ballet Paraphrases Ciajkovsky and Anton Rubinstein (first recording) Danacord DACOCD 450 E. von Sauer Etudes de concert and Valses (first recording) Danacord DACOCD 487/488 R. Strauss Piano Music (Sonata op.5, Piano Pieces opp.3 and 9) Danacord DACOCD 440 Le esplorazioni del repertorio pianistico che in genere non interessano ai nomi più conclamati del momento (o forse alle loro case discografiche, attaccate ai soliti compositori e ai soliti pezzi), interessano invece, per fortuna degli studiosi o degli appassionati, alle piccole case, che in pochi anni hanno dimostrato di gran lunga la maggior vitalità: non so se di mercato, certo culturale. I loro cataloghi, a differenza di quelle delle grandi case, non si possono ignorare:...

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