Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Baroque Delights - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Following her acclaimed recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 in 2016, Xiayin Wang here completes the trio with No. 1 and the posthumously published No. 3, alongside Scriabin's only concerto. Whether Tchaikovsky gave his consent to the virtuoso Alexander Ziloti to revise his Piano Concerto No. 1 is unknown, but Wang here presents the lesser-recorded original version. Piano Concerto No. 3 was originally begun as a symphony, all of which except the first movement was ultimately abandoned; that surviving movement was later completed as a single-movement concert work for piano and orchestra. Scriabin finished his piano concerto in only a few days, although it took months to orchestrate it before the 1897 premiere. Sensitively played by Wang, the concerto shows a naïve charm that even Scriabin, at his most translucent, would struggle to recapture once his career got underway.

This re- of orchestral suites from two stage works by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) marks the first occasion on which JEANNE LAMON, and the TAFELMUSIK ORCHESTRA, Toronto's award-winning period instrument orchestra, recorded music of the French baroque. The two suites featured on this CD are drawn from Rameau's epic five-act Inchtragedie en musiqueInch Dardanus, and from the less familiar Inchopera-balletInch Le Temple de la Gloire.

Tafelmusik presents Beethoven's landmark Symphony No. 3 InchEroicaInch - an heroic and monumental symphony originally dedicated to Napoleon - and Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 InchItalian.Inch with historical performances Maestro Weil and his players may yet convince you that InchBeethoven can sound as radical in 21st century as he must have in the 19thInch (Gramophone).