Hsin-Ni Liu - Kabalevsky: Piano Concerto No. 3 / Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Concerto (2008)

Tracklist

01. Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Major, Op. 50: I. Allegro molto
02. Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Major, Op. 50: II. Andante con moto
03. Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Major, Op. 50: III. Presto
04. Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 30
05. Rhapsody on the theme of the song School Years, Op. 75
06. Poem of Struggle, Op. 12

Kabalevsky's Third Piano Concerto, ‘Dedicated to Soviet Youth’, completes the trilogy of instrumental concertos for young people, preceded by his Violin Concerto and his First Cello Concerto (Naxos 8.553788). Like the Third Piano Concerto, the Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, based on the composer’s own song, School Years, is an optimistic, uncomplicated work depicting scenes of happy childhood. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Piano Concerto, built on a Russian folk-song collected by Balakirev, is an inventive and virtuoso work whose single unbroken movement structure is copied from Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto.

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