play pause radio-play skip-back skip-forward playing search copy check embed close plus caret-down caret-left caret-right caret-up chevron-down chevron-left chevron-right chevron-up arrow-left arrow-right open-in-new-tab filter menu more-horizontal more-vertical share share-android select star star-block volume-block volume-mute-block volume-mute volume lock settings recording composition devices laptop speaker
Log inCreate account

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Loewe: Piano Concerto No. 2

1/1/2003, 6 Tracks, 59:44

Featuring

  • Kent Nagano
  • Mari Kodama
  • Russian National Orchestra
  • Frédéric Chopin
  • Carl Loewe

Did you know?

1/6

Performer Biography

Mari Kodama, the pianist, began playing at age three and entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris at 14, completing her studies with honors at 19.

Source: Booklet

Album & Artwork

The album features two "heavyweight virtuoso concertos": Frédéric Chopin's Piano Concerto in F minor and Carl Loewe's Piano Concerto in A.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

Polyhymnia, the recording company, specializes in high-resolution surround sound recordings and builds or modifies most of its recording equipment in-house.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in February 2003 at the Concert Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Kent Nagano, the conductor, is known for his interpretations of orchestral and operatic repertoire and has received three Grammy Awards.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Both concertos on this album are representatives of the "Virtuoso Concerto" genre, where the orchestra's role is to support the soloist, not engage in equal dialogue.

Source: Booklet

You might also enjoy...

Paderewski: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 17 & Fanaisie polonaise sur des thèmes originaux, Op. 19
Villa-Lobos: The Five Piano Concertos
Ries: Piano Concertos Nos. 8 & 9 (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 75)
Czerny: Piano Concerto in D Minor
Piano Concertos of the 20s
Martha Argerich - Concerti
Khachaturian, A.I.: Piano Concerto / Prokofiev, S.: Piano Concerto No. 3
Grieg: Piano Concerto / Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2
Tchaikovsky & Khachaturian: Piano Concertos
Pfitzner & Braunfels: Piano Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 79)
Dohnanyi: Piano Concertos
Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1 / Liszt: Piano Concerto No.1
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini [1959]; Dohnányi: Variations on a Nursery Song [1959]
©℗ 2003 PentaTone