CONCERTOS FOR TRUMPET & PIANO (2022)

Tracklist

1. Dmitri Shostakovich - Concerto No.1 for Piano, Trumpet & Strings, op. 35: I. Allegretto
2. Dmitri Shostakovich - Concerto No.1 for Piano, Trumpet & Strings, op. 35: II. Lento
3. Dmitri Shostakovich - Concerto No.1 for Piano, Trumpet & Strings, op. 35: III. Moderato attaca
4. Dmitri Shostakovich - Concerto No.1 for Piano, Trumpet & Strings, op. 35: IV. Allegro con brio
5. Mieczyslaw Weinberg - Trumpet Concerto in B flat major op. 94, I. Études
6. Mieczyslaw Weinberg - Trumpet Concerto in B flat major op. 94, II. Episodes
7. Mieczyslaw Weinberg - Trumpet Concerto in B flat major op. 94, III. Fanfares
8. André Jolivet - Concertino for Trumpet, Piano and Strings, I. Allegro
9. André Jolivet - Concertino for Trumpet, Piano and Strings, II. Meno vivo
10. André Jolivet - Concertino for Trumpet, Piano and Strings, III. Allegro
11. BONUS TRACK: Sergej Rachmaninow - 6 Romances, op. 4 no. 4, Do Not Sing, My Beauty (arr. for Trumpet & Piano)

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Shostakovich – Weinberg – Jolivet: Music with a taut inner structure and logical consistency.

The sensational trumpeter Selina Ott and the renowned pianist Maria Radutu, who both were nominated for the Opus Klassik 2021 price, team up with Dirk Kaftan who conducts the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in three works by Dmitri Shostakovich, André Jolivet and Mieczysław Weinberg.

The outer movements of the Shostakovich Concerto, full of fun, satire, sparkle, virtuosity and musical quotes from olden times shine for me like the protective embrace around one of the emotionally most sincere slow movements of the piano concertos literature. (Maria Radutu)

Shostakovich’s Concerto for piano, trumpet and string orchestra (1933) is notable for a prevailing parodistic tone, which features in hardly any of his other works. Many of the themes that lend the music a distorted, grotesque face are assigned to the trumpet.

Although the instrumentation for André Jolivet’s Concertino (trumpet, strings and piano) is exactly the same as that for the Shostakovich, the latter is more of a piano concerto, while Jolivet’s is more of a trumpet concerto.

Like Shostakovich, Mieczysław Weinberg also incorporates several quotations into the final movement of his Trumpet Concerto (1967) – the fanfare from Mendelssohn’s Wedding March, for example. Referred to by Shostakovich as ‘a symphony for trumpet and orchestra’, the work presents music with a taut inner structure and logical consistency.

 

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Artists: Dirk Kaftan, Maria Radutu, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Selina Ott
Label: Orfeo
Release Date: 04-03-2022
Genre: Classical
People: Maria Radutu (Piano), Selina Ott (Trumpet), Dirk Kaftan (Conductor), RSO Orchestra

Album Reviews

This stroke of genius, which grotesquely mixes romantic elegies and modern rhythms, intersperses circus music, fanfares or burlesque quotations, and ends in a wild chase, which offers Ott and Radutu ample opportunity to demonstrate their virtuosity, but also to prove their absolutely sovereign approach to the musical score, resulting in a thrilling and completely freshly recording.

Kulturabdruck Deutschland

The album's showpiece is a lively recording of Shostakovich's Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and String Orchestra. The Radio Symphony Orchestra scores with a chamber music-like transparency, and the duo Ott and Radutu, highly precise and dynamically finely graded, owe nothing to Shostakovich's mischievous, coltish pranks: a sounding punch line firework display.

Wiener Zeitung, Christoph Irrgeher

For all three composers, the versatile ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna under Dirk Kaftan, provides a powerful accompaniment. The audience immediately rocks along, as the two ladies casually and energetically do. At the end, they unite quietly, gently, tamely and smoothly in the sustained cantilena of Sergei Rachmaninov's romance "Sing nicht, Du Schöne". But the rest is not silence, rather euphony as a finale. This incredible encore is preceded by virtuosity and joy, , for which the ARD music competition winner Selina Ott on the trumpet and the skilled pianist Maria Radutu compare themselves in three famous concertos for this very duo combination in a wild manner.

RONDO, Matthias Siehler

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