SHOSTAKOVICH / LISZT/ PROKOFIEV

 

Shostakovich: Concerto No. 1 for piano, trumpet and strings in C minor, Op. 35

1. l Allegro moderato - allegro vivace - moderato

2. ll Lento

3. lll Moderato

4. lV Allegro con brio

 

Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S.124

5. l Allegro maestoso

6. ll Quasi adagio

7. lll Allegro vivace - allegro animato

8. lV Allegro marziale animato

 

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major, Op. 10

9. l Allegro brioso

10. ll Andante assai

11. lll Allegro scherzando

 

Lise de la Salle - Piano            

Gabor Baldocki - Trumpet

 

Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra / Lawrence Foster

 

As the first piano concertos by each of these great composers, the three works featured on this new CD represent important staging posts in the development of the genre through the 19th and 20th centuries. Shostakovich, Liszt and Prokofiev were in their day considered to be outstanding pianists and these three pieces are all notable for there innovative and virtuosic style.

 

Born in 1988, Lise de la Salle performed her first concert at Radio France at the age of nine, and won First Prize at the Ettlingen International Competition at the age of twelve. A scholarship holder from the Fondation d’Entreprise Banque Populaire-Natexis and winner of first prizes at both the Young Concert Artists European Auditions and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Lise de la Salle has been a student of Pascal Nemirovski since she was ten. While continuing to work with him, she has also obtained a Premier Prix at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris-CNR in the class of Pierre Réach and gone on to the postgraduate cycle at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, in Bruno Rigutto’s class.

 

“Everything about De la Salle's playing is astonishingly mature; technical challenges are met and never highlighted and she is always intent on seeking out the poetry beneath the teeming surfaces. This is distinguished piano playing.” Andrew Clements, The Guardian.

 

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