William Alwyn Symphony No.5, Sinfonietta For Strings, Piano Concerto No.2 (lso Richard Hickox)

Cristina Ortiz, Paul Tortelier, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Paavo Berglund - Shostakovich (2024)

Cristina Ortiz, Paul Tortelier, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Paavo Berglund - Shostakovich: Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1 & Fantastic Dances (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 309 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 174 Mb | 01:15:07
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

In addition to his symphonic recordings, Berglund also recorded concertos by Shostakovich with Tortelier and Ortiz. The album also includes the piano solo "Three Fantasy Dances", recorded in 1973-1975.
Nelson Goerner, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, Tadaaki Otaka  - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (2018)

Nelson Goerner, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, Tadaaki Otaka - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (2018)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 49:46 | 229 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Alpha | Catalog: ALPHA 395

Nelson Goerner is not especially known for his Brahms, and this 2018 Alpha release of the Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major marks his first commercial recording of a major Brahms work. While he is widely viewed as a poet at the piano, mostly because of his introspective playing of solo piano music by Chopin and Debussy, Goerner's close-to-the-vest approach may be viewed as a liability in such a heroic and powerful work as this concerto, where assertive playing is required and pianists are expected to demonstrate muscular prowess over poetry.
Olli Mustonen, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2007/2015) [Official Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Olli Mustonen, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2007/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 61:35 minutes | 960 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

This is the first of three volumes featuring Beethoven's five piano concertos performed by Olli Mustonen, acting here as both soloist and conductor of the Tapiola Sinfonietta. The Finnish musician is known for delivering fresh, visionary readings of popular standard repertoire music, such as Beethoven's concertos which he had never recorded before. Mustonen has maintained a close relationship with chamber orchestra Tapiola Sinfonietta, accompanying this ambitious recording project with acclaimed tour performances. Also a published composer, Mustonen is playing his own cadenzas in the First Concerto.
Noriko Ogawa, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow - Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Suite in D major (2000)

Noriko Ogawa, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow - Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Suite in D major (2000)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 70:31 | 263 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-CD-1040

The debt owed by French music to Saint-Saëns is often overlooked. At a time when many composers saw opera as the only way forward, Saint-Saëns took the supposedly Germanic forms of symphony, sonata and concerto, and transformed them into something idiomatically French. His five concertos for piano and orchestra demonstrate his own skills as a pianist and reflect his admiration for Liszt.
Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado, Freiburger Barockorcheste - Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 2, Symphony No. 1 (2019)

Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado, Freiburger Barockorchester - Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 2, Symphony No. 1 (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 293 Mb | Total time: 63:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902369 | Recorded: 2018

Mendelssohn's first symphonic work scored for full orchestra, the Symphony Op.11 in C minor, paved the way for even greater examples of the genre he was soon to produce. The concert overture Die schöne Melusine and the sparkling Piano Concerto No.2 rely on the type of orchestration and harmonic language that are best served when played on period instruments, as heard here. Devoid of the atmosphere of Romantic doom and gloom, nearly every page of both scores is marked by an exuberant cheerfulness, youthful drive and irrepressible energy in these splendid performances from fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout and the Freiburger Barockorchester led by Pablo Heras-Casado.
Olli Mustonen, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-2 (2007) MCH PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Olli Mustonen, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-2 (2007)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 61:32 minutes | PDF Booklet | 2,86 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | PDF Booklet | 1,32 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | PDF Booklet | 1,14 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: Ondine # ODE 1099-5

This is the first of three volumes featuring the five Beethoven Piano Concertos and the piano version of the Violin Concerto, all performed by Olli Mustonen in the role as soloist and conductor of the Tapiola Sinfonietta. Mustonen is known for delivering a fresh, visionary reading of popular standard repertoire music, such as Beethoven's concertos which he has never recorded before. The chamber orchestra Tapiola Sinfonietta and Olli Mustonen have maintained a close relationship for years, accompanying this ambitious recording project with acclaimed tour performances. Mustonen, who is also a published composer, is playing his own cadenzas in the First Concerto.
Tatiana Nikolayeva - P.I. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.2, Op.44; Concert Fantasy, Op.56 (2008) [The Russian Piano Tradition]

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.2, Op.44; Concert Fantasy, Op.56 (2008)
Tatiana Nikolayeva, piano; USSR State Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Nikolai Anosov & Kyrill Kondrashin

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 203 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 201 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Appian | # APR5666 | Time: 01:16:08

These three titles inaugurate the Goldenweiser School, the last of the three great teaching traditions to be covered in this comprehensive survey of the many great pianists who worked in Russia in the Soviet era. Along with Goldenweiser himself we start with Nikolayeva and Ginzburg. The bulk of the issues in THE RUSSIAN PIANO TRADITION will be divided into 'schools' which represent the three main teachers of this period - Neuhaus, Goldenweiser and Igumnov, - and their pupils. Today Nikolayeva (1924-1993) is remembered mainly as a Bach player and also as the definitive performer of Shostakovich's 24 Preludes & Fugues, which were inspired by, and written for, her after the composer heard her play Bach in the 1950 Leipzig Bach competition (which she won). However, to limit Nikolayeva's reputation to these two composers would be doing her a great disservice. She had a vast repertoire and her recordings include concertos by Bartok, Medtner, Prokofiev Stravinsky and several Soviet composers - including her own concerto, as she was also a composer! Further, she recorded the complete Beethoven sonatas and much other standard repertoire from the 19th century. This CD presents two recording premieres - the first ever recording of the Tchaikovsky Concert Fantasy Op56 and the first recording of the original version of Tchaikovsky's 2nd Piano Concerto.
Sviatoslav Richter - Sergey Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Preludes (2012)

Sviatoslav Richter (piano) - Sergey Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Preludes (2012)
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, USSR Radio-TV State Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Kurt Sanderling

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 368 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 201 Mb | Scans included
Classical | Label: Praga Digitals | # PRD/DSD 350 056 | Time: 01:15:39

In celebration of their twentieth anniversary, this essential release from Praga focuses on the artistry of the great Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter. In an all-Rachmaninov program, Richter is heard in the first two Piano Concertos accompanied by the great conductor Kurt Sanderling in live performances recorded in the 50s - well before he began touring internationally. Praga's hybrid SACD pairs remastered monophonic recordings of the concertos with four of Richter's favorite Preludes recorded in stereo during his first tour of North America in 1960. Praga has employed the best of today's cutting-edge restoration techniques to present these important historical recordings in all their original glory.
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Zubin Mehta & London Symphony Orchestra - Brahm's Piano Concerto No. 2 (1967/2009) [HDTT 24bit/192kHz]

Vladimir Ashkenazy, Zubin Mehta & LSO - Brahm's Piano Concerto No. 2 (1967)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 47:52 minutes | 1,88 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 47:52 minutes | 981 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet
Seong-Jin Cho, Gianandrea Noseda, London Symphony Orchestra - Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2, Scherzi (2021)

Seong-Jin Cho, Gianandrea Noseda, London Symphony Orchestra - Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2, Scherzi (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 235 Mb | Total time: 68:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 486 0435 | Recorded: 2021

Seong-Jin Cho garnered international attention and critical accolades through his first prize victory in the 2015 Warsaw Chopin Competition, followed by a studio recording pairing Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 and the 4 Ballades. Five years later, Seong-Jin returns to Chopin with a complementary program consisting of the romantic Piano Concerto No. 2 and the 4 Scherzi.