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CDD22024
(Originally issued on CDA66781/2)
2CDs Dyad (2 CDs for the price of 1)


Recording details: June 1993
Wigmore Hall, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Ates Orga
Engineered by Ken Blair
Release date: October 1998
Total duration: 118 minutes 38 seconds

'All these performances are a marvel of the most concentrated pianism, musical thought and emotion ... sound and presentation are fully equal to a very special occasion' (Gramophone)

'All-encompassing mastery ... first rate' (American Record Guide)

'Here, captured all too rarely even in live recordings, is the raptly magical concentration exceptional to the adrenalin of a concert. Utter finesse, exquisite control of tone colour and sharply intelligent empathy. The Vorisek is breathtakingly beautiful' (BBC Music Magazine)

Nikolai Demidenko Live
Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
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Fantasia in C major, Op 12  Jan Václav Voríšek (1791-1825)
CD1
1
Movement 1: Andante  [6'34]
2
Movement 2: Allegro con brio  [4'02]
3
Sonata 'Un piccolo divertimento' 'Variations' in F minor, Hob XVII:6  [16'26]  Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
4
Sonata in C minor, Kk11  [2'04]  Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
5
Sonata in B minor, Kk377  [3'03]  Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Piano Sonata No 3 in F minor, Op 14  Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
6
Movement 3: Andantino de Clara Wieck. Quasi Variazioni  [9'38]
Fantasy in F sharp minor, Op 28  Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
7
Movement 1: Con moto agitato  [6'12]
8
Movement 2: Allegro con moto  [2'37]
9
Movement 3: Presto  [5'37]
10
Nocturne in A flat major, Op 129  [4'02]  Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1785-1849)
An die ferne Geliebte 'Liederkreis', Op 98 S469  Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), arr. Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
CD2
1
No 1: Auf dem Hügel sitz' ich, spähend  [2'49]
2
No 2: Wo die Berge so blau  [2'09]
3
No 3: Leichte Segler in den Höhen  [1'22]
4
No 4: Diese Wolken in den Höhen  [1'11]
5
No 5: Es kehret der Maien, es blühet die Au  [2'12]
6
No 6: Nimm sie hin denn, diese Lieder  [3'56]
7
Piano Sonata, Op 1  [11'41]  Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Praeludium in D minor, BuxWV140  Dieterich Buxtehude (c1637-1707), arr. Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953)
8
Movement 1: Prelude  [2'35]
9
Movement 2: Fugue  [3'04]
10
Ciacona  [9'06]  Sofia Gubaidulina (b1931)
Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S173  Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
11
No 07: Funérailles  [12'35]
Four Impromptus, D899 Op 90  Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
12
No 4: A flat major  [5'43]