Without any doubt this session of the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition 2021 will stay fixed in our memories. In spite of the constraints imposed by the health crisis (absence of the public, number of semi-finalists and finalists reduced by half), 58 candidates presented themselves to play before the members of the jury. The media maintained exceptional visibility at the competition right from the first round (television, radio, internet and social media) and the audiences confirmed an ever growing passion for the Competition. In this 4 album-box set you will find the 6 laureates of this session, that saw the Frenchman Jonathan Fournel win First Prize; you can enjoy his performance in Brahms' Second Concerto with the Belgian National Orchestra conducted by Hugh Wolff, as well as the whole of his recital in the semi-finale. The Russian Sergei Redkin, second laureate, is present in the Third Concerto of Rachmaninov as well as the set piece by Bruno Mantovani. Two concertos by Mozart with the Orchestre de Chambre de Wallonie conducted by Frank Braley are also on the programme: No. 23 (KV 488) by Vitaly Stakirov (5th Prize) and the No. 27 (KV 595) with the Japanese Keigo Mugawa (3rd Prize). Chamber music is also well represented, revealing notably Tomoki Sakata (4th Prize) in the Liszt Sonata and Dmitry Sin in Schumann's Concerto without orchestra. These artistes, all of them exceptional pianists, who tomorrow perhaps will appear on the world's leading concert platforms, can be discovered here in their first ever recordings.
1 Concerto n. 2 in B flat major Op. 83~Allegro non Troppo
2 Concerto n. 2 in B flat major Op. 83~Allegro Appassionato
3 Concerto n. 2 in B flat major Op. 83~Andante
4 Concerto n. 2 in B flat major Op. 83~Allegretto Grazioso
5 D'un jardin féérique
6 Nocturne
- Disc 2 -
1 Concerto n. 3 in D minor Op. 30~Allegro non Tanto
2 Concerto n. 3 in D minor Op. 30~Intermezzo
3 Concerto n. 3 in D minor Op. 30~Alla Breve
4 Concerto without orchestra in F minor Op. 14~Allegro
5 Concerto without orchestra in F minor Op. 14~Scherzo: Molto Commodo
6 Concerto without orchestra in F minor Op. 14~Quasi Variazioni: Andantino de Clara Wieck
7 Concerto without orchestra in F minor Op. 14~Prestissimo Possibile
8 Prelude and Fugue in D flat major Op. 87/15
- Disc 3 -
1 Concerto n. 23 in A major KV 488~Allegro
2 Concerto n. 23 in A major KV 488~Adagio
3 Concerto n. 23 in A major KV 488~Allegro Assai
4 Concerto n. 27 in B flat major KV 595~Allegro
5 Concerto n. 27 in B flat major KV 595~Larghetto
6 Concerto n. 27 in B flat major KV 595~Allegro
7 Gavotte et six doubles
- Disc 4 -
1 Sonata in B minor
2 Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel Op. 24
3 Nocturne n. 17 in B major Op. 62/1
4 plus que lente
Without any doubt this session of the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition 2021 will stay fixed in our memories. In spite of the constraints imposed by the health crisis (absence of the public, number of semi-finalists and finalists reduced by half), 58 candidates presented themselves to play before the members of the jury. The media maintained exceptional visibility at the competition right from the first round (television, radio, internet and social media) and the audiences confirmed an ever growing passion for the Competition. In this 4 album-box set you will find the 6 laureates of this session, that saw the Frenchman Jonathan Fournel win First Prize; you can enjoy his performance in Brahms' Second Concerto with the Belgian National Orchestra conducted by Hugh Wolff, as well as the whole of his recital in the semi-finale. The Russian Sergei Redkin, second laureate, is present in the Third Concerto of Rachmaninov as well as the set piece by Bruno Mantovani. Two concertos by Mozart with the Orchestre de Chambre de Wallonie conducted by Frank Braley are also on the programme: No. 23 (KV 488) by Vitaly Stakirov (5th Prize) and the No. 27 (KV 595) with the Japanese Keigo Mugawa (3rd Prize). Chamber music is also well represented, revealing notably Tomoki Sakata (4th Prize) in the Liszt Sonata and Dmitry Sin in Schumann's Concerto without orchestra. These artistes, all of them exceptional pianists, who tomorrow perhaps will appear on the world's leading concert platforms, can be discovered here in their first ever recordings.
