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Georgijs Osokins * Osokins Plays Chopin & Rachmaninoff [New CD]

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An illuminating juxtaposition of keyboard giants bookending the Romantic age, by a pianist with a growing international reputation. The Latvian pianist Georgijs Osokins made these recordings for Piano Classics between 2016 and 2018, and they attracted an enthusiastic critical response on their first issue. In Gramophone, Jeremy Nicholas welcomed a 'powerful and cleanly articulated reading' of Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme of Chopin, while the paired transcriptions 'provide further evidence of Osokins's stylistic identification with Rachmaninoff's idiom.'The Chopin album was made shortly after Osokins placed himself among the medal winners at the 2015 Chopin competition in Warsaw, where he divided opinion with interpretations which many found radical. Yet the coherence of his thinking is powerfully evident from the sequence which charts the 'late' thinking and keyboard writing of Chopin, as it ventures into poetic territories hitherto unexplored even by him, from the Third Piano Sonata through to the visionary Polonaise-Fantaisie. These are works that will perennially challenge and reward the most adventurous minds and musicians in any generation, and with this album Osokins placed himself among their number. In the following decade, Osokins has gone on to win first prize at the 2018 Manhattan International Music Competition in New York, and make an acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Festival, as well as several other recordings. He has also become the youngest-ever recipient of the Latvian Grand Music Award, the highest honour in the Latvian music industry. Such awards are recognition of the artistry which illuminates this album: a piercing musicianship which places itself at the service of the composer.

Tracklist:

  1. Berceuse in D Flat Major Op. 57
  2. Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58-Allegro Maestoso
  3. Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58-Scherzo, Molto Vivace
  4. Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58-Largo
  5. Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58-Finale, Presto Non Tanto
  6. Mazurkas Op. 59-No. 1 in a Minor
  7. Mazurkas Op. 59-No. 2 in a Flat Major
  8. Mazurkas Op. 59-No. 3 in F Sharp minor
  9. Barcarolle in F Sharp Major Op. 60
  10. Polonaise-Fantaisie in a Flat Major Op. 61
  11. Souvenir de Paganini in a Major Op. Posth
  12. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Tema. Largo
  13. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 1. Moderato
  14. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 2. Allegro
  15. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 3. L'istesso Tempo
  16. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 4. L'istesso Tempo
  17. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 5. Meno Mosso
  18. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 6. Meno Mosso
  19. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 7. Allegro
  20. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 8. L'istesso Tempo
  21. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 9. L'istesso Tempo
  22. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 10. Più Vivo
  23. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 11. Lento
  24. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 12. Moderato
  25. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 13. Largo
  26. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 14. Moderato
  27. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 15. Allegro Scherzando
  28. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 16. Lento
  29. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 17. Grave
  30. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 19. Allegro Vivace
  31. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 20. Presto
  32. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variarion 21. Andante
  33. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Variation 22. Maestoso-Meno Mosso-Presto
  34. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22-Largo Theme
  35. In the Silence of the Secret Night, Op. 4 No. 3
  36. How Fair This Spot, Op. 21 No. 7
  37. Morceaux de Fantaisie (5), for Piano, Op. 3-No. 3. Mélodie (2nd Version of 1940)
  38. Morceaux de Salon, for Piano, Op. 10-No. 3. Barcarolle
  39. Work(S)-Fragments Op. Posth
  40. Vocalize, Op. 34 No. 14
  41. Vespers, Op. 37-No. 5 Now Lettest Thou Depart
  42. Dream, Op. 38 No. 5

UPC: 5063758103664
Label: Piano Classics
Release Date: 5.1.26
Format: CD