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 Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21  Janina Fialkowska piano Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Bramwell Tovey conductor ACD2 2643 |
• Janina Fialkowska is a regular guest soloist with the world's most prestigious orchestras in North America, Europe and Asia. She has worked with such conductors as Charles Dutoit, Bernard Haitink, Lohn Maazel, Zubin Metha, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Georg Solti, Leonard Slatkin, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and many others.
• The Montreal-born pianist's career was launched by the legendary Arthur Rubinstein after her prize-winning performances at the first piano competition held in his name in 1974.
• Famous for her interpretations of Chopin, Mozart and Liszt, Ms. Fialkowska was chosen in 1990 to perform the world premiere of the recently discovered third piano concerto of Liszt with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has recorded all three Liszt concertos, as well as the Paderewski, Moszkowski and Chopin piano concertos, and a CD devoted to the music of Karol Szymanowski.
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Chopin was barely twenty when he wrote his two concertos. He had already written three other works for piano and orchestra: the Variations Op. 2 on 'La ci darem 1a mano', which Schumann hailed in 1829 as the work of a genius; the Fantasy on Polish national airs, Op.13; and the Rondo a la Krakowiak, Op.l4. The young pianist had just finished his musical studies in Warsaw under the guidance of the great teacher Jozef Elsner, and was just starting a promising concert career when, in November 1830, brutally, everything changed. Anticipating that an insurrection against the Russian authorities was about to break out, his father insisted that Frederic leave Poland. After several months in Vienna, he settled permanently in Paris with no baggage but music and incurable nostalgia for his homeland.
He had written the two concertos at practically the same time. The F minor, begun in 1829, was premiered on March 17,1830, while the E minor, then still on the drawing board, was first performed on October 11 of the same year, at the very last concert Chopin gave before leaving Poland. The two works were published in Paris, but in reverse order: the E minor (Op. 11) first, in 1833 and, three years later, the F minor (Op. 2l). …
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FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN 1810-1849 Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, Op.21 [30:29] Concerto pour piano en fa mineur 1. I. Maestoso [13:43] 2. II. Larghetto [8:16] 3. III. Allegro vivace [8:30] Piano Concerto No.1 In E minor, Op.11 [38:54] Concerto pour piano en mi mineur 4. I. Allegro maestoso [19:21] 5. II. Romance - Larghetto [9:36] 6. III. Rondo - Vivace [9:57] |
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