Richter Complete Recording Disc 01

Dvořák: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G minor / Chopin: Impromptu No. 1-4 / Tschaikowsky: Doumka in C minor, Natha, "The Snow Maiden"
Boris Bloch, Piano / Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra - Jonathan Darlington
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz: 2,82 GB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Acousence Classics # ACO21108 | Country/Year: Germany 2008
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic Piano | Source: Linnrecords.com

The search for "the" solo instrument of the 19th century leads inevitably to the piano. It has its place in the public concert hall as well as in the private salon, and not a few composers have emerged as successful pianists. Among the composers in this program, though, only Frédéric Chopin belongs to this group, but he soon changed his field of activity from the anonymous concert hall to the more intimate salon circle. Antonìn Dvorák, on the other hand, passed the organists' examination and was at first employed as violist in an orchestra, while Tchaikovsky was much too reclusive to interpret his own works in front of an audience. Among the selected works by Dvorák, Chopin and Tchaikovsky, only the Dvorák piano concerto requires a large concert hall, while the solo pieces by Chopin and Tchaikovsky were originally at home in the salon…

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The Italian word malinconia was very commonly used in the nineteenth century as a title for melancholy pieces. Yet the idea of malinconia covered a myriad of romantic notions, so that simply translating it as "melancholy" does not do it justice. It subsumes many other emotional states as well - all kinds of dejection, gloom, unknown sadness, desperation, depression and even frustration. Each language has evolved its own terms, and interpretations of the word itself also differ from region to region. Malinconia in sunny Italy or Spain is quite different from melancholy in Norway and in Finland, where the winters are harsh and long. The Nordic variant is expressed here in various musical examples; words alone are anyway inadequate.