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RAUTAVAARA, E.: Piano Concerto No. 3 / Autumn Gardens (Ashkenazy)

Released Date:
01 Mar 2011


Artists:

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra


Ashkenazy, Vladimir


Vladimir Ashkenazy

Soloist

Venue:

Warner/Chappell Music Finland Oy


Finlandia Hall. Helsinki



Record Label
Ondine

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Total Time - 67:10
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EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA

 

Piano Concerto No. 3, "Gift of Dreams"

  
1 I. Tranquillo 9:58
     
2 II. Adagio assai 11:51
     
3 III. Energico 5:58
     
 

Autumn Gardens

  
4 I. Poetico 10:38
 Ashkenazy, Vladimir
     
5 II. Tranquillo 5:10
 Ashkenazy, Vladimir
     
6 III. Giocoso e leggiero 10:32
 Ashkenazy, Vladimir
     
 

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Einojuhani Rautavaara In Conversation With Vladimir Ashkenazy

 13:03
     
 Vladimir Ashkenazy Soloist


This recording contains Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Third Piano Concerto "Gift of Dreams" (1998), featuring Vladimir Ashkenazy as soloist and conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Ashkenazy commissioned this work as a concerto which he could conduct while playing the solo part. Having performed the world première, he here delivers the concerto’s first recording.

The concerto is coupled with Autumn Gardens (1999) for orchestra, and an additional bonus: a 13-minute conversation between composer and performer, revealing insights into their association, of which Vladimir Ashkenazy stated on the occasion of Rautavaara’s 80th birthday in 2008 that, "It has been a particular pleasure and privilege for me to be associated with Einojuhani Rautavaara’s music for the simple reasons that it is totally unpretentious and it deals with the basics of our existence. He never imitates, never tries to be deliberately original and he has an idiom all of his own. Combined with a very high level of professionalism, these qualities contribute to one of the most eloquent musical expressions of our time."
 

     Artistic Quality 10      Sound Quality 10
"Good heavens, this is gorgeous music! ... Rautavaara has come to be known not just as Finland’s greatest composer, but probably the world’s. It’s a reputation effortlessly sustained by this release."

David Hurwitz  - ClassicsToday.com  March 2000
 


"First rate performances ... Ashkenazy plays and conducts sympathetically."

Barry Millington - The Times 8 February 2000
 


   "Highly recommended."

Guy Rickards - International Piano Quarterly - Spring 2000

 


      Performance *****  Sound *****
"Thanks to the persuasive advocacy of these artists, (both works) cast quite a spell, in state-of-the-art sound."

Robert Layton  - BBC Music Magazine April 2000

 


"A piano concerto  ... that lifts you to ethereal heights."

Rob Cowan -  Gramophone - April 2000

 


           The Best of the Year
"My favourite of all year 2000’s best releases that are important ...  Ashkenazy leads stunningly cogent and expressive performances of two of the Finnish master’s recent, and finest, orchestral works ... Ondine’s breathtaking recording does full justice to the Helsinki Philharmonic’s vivid playing."

Jed Distler - International Record Review  December 2000
 




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