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Pejacevic: Piano Concerto / Symphony

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CHSA 5299

Pejacevic: Piano Concerto / Symphony

Running Time: 70:34

CD UPC: 0095115529928

Release Date: May 2022
Originally recorded in 2021

Composer
Dora Pejacevic

Solo piano *
Peter Donohoe

Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor
Sakari Oramo

Producer
Brian Pidgeon

Engineer
Ralph Couzens

Assistant Engineer assistant
Jonathan Cooper

Assistant Engineer assistant
Alexander James

Venue 6 and 7 December 2021
Phoenix Concert Hall, Fairfield Halls, Croydon

Genre:
Piano
Orchestral & Concertos

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DORA PEJACEVIC

Concerto, Op.33 *

28:51

in G Minor • in g-Moll • en sol mineur

for Piano and Orchestra

Allegro Moderato - Più tranquillo - Tempo I - Cadenza - Poco agitato -

12:38

Adagio con estro poetico - Un poco mosso - Tempo I

8:17

III

Allegro con fuoco - Allegro quasi scherzando - Allegro con moto -

7:48

Cadenza. Prestissimo -

Symphony, Op.41

42:01

in F-Sharp Minor • in fis-Moll • en fa dièse mineur

for Larche Orchestra

Meiner Mutter gewidmet

Andante maestoso - Più mosso - Allegro con moto -

14:22

Andante sostenuto - Sostenuto - Tempo I - Più mosso - Tempo I

11:04

III

Scherzo. Molto allegro - [ ] - Tempo I - Largo molto - Tempo I - Largo molto -

7:09

Allegro appassionato - Poco meno mosso - Appassionato - Molto vivo

9:16

Total time: 70:34

Solo: Peter Donohoe piano *

Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra

Stephen Bryant leader

Conductor: Sakari Oramo

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Reviews

Nominee in the Assorted Programmes category

2023 ICMA Nominee

Interpretation ***** Sound ****** Repertoire ******

Isabel Herzfeld – Piano News – November /December 2022

Hi-Fi News Album Choice

“…Big-hearted performances, cannily recorded with plenty of Chandos-brand ambience at the renovated Fairfield Halls. “

Peter Quantrill – Hi-Fi News – 27 September 2022

*****

Michael Wersin – Rondo magazine (Germany) – 4/2022

“… These performances are assured and confident, although I don’t suppose the orchestra had played the works previously. Peter Donohoe’s barn-storming style suits the piano concerto and Sakari Oramo conducts as if these were repertoire works. The recording is rich and full, in the Chandos manner, even though I was listening in ordinary two channel stereo …”

Stephen Barber – MusicWeb-International.com – 5 September 2022

Nominee in the Orchestral category for Recording of the Year 2022

Limelight magazine Recording of the Year 2022 - Nominee

Choc de Classica

Jérémie Cahen – Classica magazine (France) – July/August 2022

“Although Oramo & BBC Symphony orchestra´s recording is not the first one of this work, it can still be considered a great find.” ****

Jukka Isopuro – Helsingin Sanomat (Finnish Newspaper) – 14 June 2022

“… The gem here is the Symphony in F-sharp minor … Sakari Oramo elicits a fine performance from the BBC Symphony Orchestra who play the work as if they had known it all their lives. Chandos’ rich sound is a boon her in Pejacevic’s more focused harmonic soundworld…”

Guy Rickards – International Piano – June 2022

“… It [Symphony] lasts over 40 minutes and is late romantic and opulently orchestrated.
It is a mature, solidly crafted work that contains many ideas. The composer’s ingenuity makes the symphony more interesting than the piano concerto. Sakari Oramo conducts it powerfully and with good symphonic breath.” ***

Remy Franck – Pizzicato.lu – 9 June 2022

Performance **** Recording *****

“… [Piano Concerto] boasts attractive melodies, warmly lush orchestration and technically demanding piano writing. Peter Donohoe revels in its manifold opportunities for virtuosic display, but also brings poetry and requisite tenderness to the beautifully lyrical writing in the slow movement. The Symphony is even more impressive … Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, supported by Chandos’s customary warm engineering, clearly believe in the works and deliver an extremely compelling performance.”

Erik Levi – BBC Music magazine – July 2022

“…Recommended.”

David Gutman – Gramophone magazine – June 2022

“… The performance by Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra is wholly impressive and convincing… Chandos’ SACD engineering is very good as one would expect… The symphony shows a composer of genuine individuality producing an impressive engaging work of real stature. A genuine discovery.”

Nick Barnard – MusicWeb-International.com – 20 May 2022

“… the ambitious, four-movement, F-sharp minor Symphony … holds the attention through the composer’s individual ideas and skilful handling of structure: sincere music that has allure as well as emotional outreach, certainly in this glowing performance: it’s patently obvious that Sakari Oramo believes in the work and leads a dedicated performance… both [Symphony and Piano Concerto] are well-worth a punt, especially in such committed performances that are captured in pristine and tangible sound … and may well prove to be a revelation.”

Colin Anderson – ColinsColumn.com – 23 April 2022

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