SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)

Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16

1. Andantino

2. Scherzo (Vivace)

3. Intermezzo (Allegro moderato)

4. Finale (Allegro tempestoso)

 

MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937)

Piano Concerto in G major

5. Allegramente

6. Adagio assai

7. Presto

 

Yundi Li - piano

Berliner Philharmoniker / Seiji Ozawa

 

Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is the most brilliant and virtuosic of his concertos for both soloist and orchestra – and one of the least recorded. Yundi Li is joined by one of the world’s greatest orchestras, the Berliner Philharmoniker, under Seiji Ozawa

 

The studio recording will be made in connection with three concerts in the Philharmonic Hall in Berlin. The Ravel Piano Concerto, a perennial hit with its haunting and jazzy second movement, rounds out the programme

 

With this recording, Yundi Li makes another significant step forward in his recording career. His first concerto album – the Chopin/Liszt Concertos No. 1 – featured a repertory he is known to play well. With this second concerto album, Yundi Li discovers new ground with completely new, highly challenging works and in collaboration with a legendary orchestra and conductor

 

The Canadian Film Production Rhombus Media (producers of The Red Violin) has accompanied Yundi and Seiji to China (Ozawa was born in China) and to Berlin. Our EPK is a stunning excerpt of a feature film (Working Title: The Young Romantic) that Rhombus Media is preparing for cinema and TV broadcast. It gives insight into the intimate moments of the last minutes before Yundi’s debut with Berlin Philharmonic on 24 May 2007

 

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