Chopin: Piano Concertos Warsaw 2010 - Nikolai Demidenko, Evgeny Kissin

Chopin often gets pegged, rightly or wrongly, as a composer who was really only at home on smaller canvasses. The common "wisdom" is that Chopin never was really comfortable in the orchestral idiom, and in fact the dearth of large scale material in his oeuvre may indeed support that position. But in terms of competence and facility, his two piano concerti are ample proof that orchestrally speaking he certainly had the compositional goods. While no one would accuse either of his large scale piano works of being overly innovative or even flashy in the orchestration department, they are both completely solid, commanding pieces that have rightly assumed their place in the piano concerto repertoire. Of course the piano solos are daunting and at times incredibly florid, full of the filigreed brilliance for which Chopin became rightly famous in his many smaller pieces for solo piano, but there's also fine attention paid, albeit often times in a relatively subtle way, to the interaction between the soloist and the accompanying orchestral elements. But as it should be, the piano is front and center in both of these pieces, and each concerto requires a pianist of formidable expertise, not just to handle the technical aspects, but to cull every last drop of emotion from Chopin's heart on his sleeve writing. Two radically different approaches are taken in this interesting Gala Concert celebrating the bicentenary of Chopin's birth in 1810.

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Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11. Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4. (Nikolai Demidenko)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21. Etude in C minor, Op. 10 No. 12. Waltz in E minor, Op. Posth. (Evgeny Kissin).    Accompanied by the Warsaw Philharmonic under the direction of Antoni Wit.