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EMI Classics
CD: 6790192
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RACHMANINOV
Symphony 3
RLPO Petrenko
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ONLY £9.99
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Award winning conductor Vasily Petrenko’s exceptional abilities as a renowned, inspiring conductor with major media appeal set him apart from the majority of his contemporaries. He is the youngest ever Principal (now Chief) Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and will add the role of Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic beginning with the 2013/2014 season. Since Petrenko took up the baton of the RLPO’s Principal Conductor in 2006 (and then Chief Conductor in 2009), this partnership has flourished; and the orchestra is now described as “premier league”.
Vasily Petrenko conducts the RLPO for Rachmaninov’s third and most expressive symphony, paired with his capriccio on gypsy themes, the Caprice Bohémien. This will be the first of a run of exciting releases focusing on the Russian music of Petrenko’s heritage.
The Guardian writes: “Rachmaninov's Third Symphony is a work that has never gained much affection – too Romantic to appease the modernists, too modern to please conservatives – but the composer's sister-in-law rightly identified that "it is a work about Russia and our devotion to our beloved country". Petrenko chose the piece to commence his sixth season with the RLPO; and though he is well settled in Liverpool, it is on inspired nights like these that he seems to miss St Petersburg terribly.”
Caprice Bohémien is one of Rachmaninov’s earlier works, composed just before his First Symphony, and is a colourful fantasy on a gypsy theme. Much of the inspiration came from the composer’s one act opera Aleko, based on The Gypsies by Pushkin (and with which he graduated the St Petersburg Conservatory with a rare gold medal).
Originally written for voice (tenor or soprano) and piano – the last of 14 songs (Opus 34), there are many, many different arrangements of Rachmaninov’s melancholy work, Vocalise, confirming the popularity of the piece. Rachmaninov himself transcribed the piece for orchestra 3 years after he composed it.
"Petrenko instinctively conveys the essential quality of soul that the interpretation of Rachmaninov requires."
***** - The Telegraph
Artists:
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Works:
Liszt Lieder:
Rachmaninov:
Symphony No.3
Vocalise
Caprice bohemien
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