Byron Janis – Liszt: Piano Concertos No. 1 & 2 (180g LP)

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Pianist Byron Janis’ tightly-knit, virtuoso, emotional yet controlled interpretation of Liszt’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 may well remind some listeners of the expressive art of his teacher Vladimir Horowitz.

“The greatest artist of his generation.”

-Arts, Paris

Liszt’s Piano Concertos occupy a special position in the genre for several reasons. Firstly they mirror the amazing keyboard virtuosity of the composer, and secondly they point the way to modern music through their daring harmonies and free treatment of traditional compositional forms. Any pianist who tackles the mighty E flat major Concerto, which was premiered by Liszt himself under the baton of Berlioz in 1855, soon realizes that he has taken on a mammoth task. Instead of an over-dimensional, weighty performance, Byron Janis and the Moscow Philharmonic present a compact reading of this tightly-knit composition. Janis, a pupil of Horowitz, displays his bravura in the appropriate places, but also knows how to use his technical prowess perfected in his early years to produce finely-chiseled keyboard poetry, freeing the work from its often-cited bulkiness. This is particularly effective in the intoxicating Finale, where the pianist’s brilliance amalgamates with triumphal orchestral playing.

In the Second Concerto, too, it is clear that great care has been taken with the score. Beginning with the elegiac entry, via the pulsating Agitato up to the expressive melodic playing, Byron Janis and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky fill this visionary symphonic poem with wonderful timbral colouring which is brought to a climax in the sparkling Finale. When music from the New German School sounds like it does here by means of Russian hands, then it certainly deserves a place in the Speakers Corner Russian Edition.

“Almost unsurpassable brilliance.”

-Daily Mail, London

Features:

  • 180g Virgin Vinyl
  • High Quality Pressing
  • Pure Analogue Audiophile Mastering

ID: Speakers Corner Records – SR90329, Mercury Living Presence – SR90329, Mercury – SR90329

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Byron Janis

Piano

Kiril Kondrashin

Conductor

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

Orchestra

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Conductor

Moscow Radio Symphony

Orchestra

Piano Concerto No. 1 In E Flat Major "Triangle" Conductor – Kiril KondrashinOrchestra – Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra(17:20)
A1Allegro Maestoso
A2.1Quasi Adagio
A2.2Allegretto Vivace
A2.3Allegro Marziale Animato
Piano Concerto No. 2 In A Major Conductor – Gennadi RozhdestvenskyOrchestra – Moscow Radio Symphony*(19:49)
B1.1Adagio Sostenuto Assai
B1.2Allegro Agitato Assai
B1.3Allegro Moderato
B1.4Allegro Deciso
B1.5Marziale Un Poco Meno Allegro
B1.6Allegro Animato
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