Ammann, Ravel & Bartók: Piano Concertos Andreas Haefliger, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra & Susanna Mälkki

• Dieter Ammann (b. 1962): The Piano Concerto "Gran toccata":
• 1 The Piano Concerto "Gran toccata": Molto ritmico (Live) 10:51
• 2 The Piano Concerto "Gran toccata": Bar 272 (Live) 07:59
• 3 The Piano Concerto "Gran toccata": Upbeat to Bar 445 (Live) 12:28
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major, M. 82:
• 4 Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major, M. 82: Lento 08:26
• 5 Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major, M. 82: Allegro 04:39
• 6 Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major, M. 82: Tempo I 05:59
• Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945): Piano Concerto No. 3 in E Major, Sz. 119:
• 7 Piano Concerto No. 3 in E Major, Sz. 119: I. Allegretto 07:23
• 8 Piano Concerto No. 3 in E Major, Sz. 119: II. Adagio religioso 10:33
• 9 Piano Concerto No. 3 in E Major, Sz. 119: III. Allegro vivace 07:09
• Total Runtime 01:15:27

Info for Ammann, Ravel & Bartók: Piano Concertos

When Andreas Haefliger conceived this unusual combination of concertos it was with the aim of putting into perspective three pieces, each a unique and highly expres­sive highlight from the composers output. That Maurice Ravels Concerto for the Left Hand and Béla Bartóks Third Piano Concerto fulfilled the requirements was a given: towards the end of his life Bartók wrote his most lyrically expressive concerto while Ravel, inspired by the qualities of the left hand register, wrote a piece full of dark yearning and grotesquely fauvistic dances. The third work was more of a gamble, being a newly commissioned and not yet written concerto. The risk was a calculated one, however, given the stellar reputation of the composer Dieter Ammann, as well as Haefligers personal acquaintance with him. But as Haefliger himself remarks: Little could have prepared me for the exceptional work I was to receive: The Piano Concerto Gran Toccata. Keeping tradition close by as an ally in the layering of harmony and rhythm, it explodes into futuristic visions in an extremely personal language and, through its kaleidoscopic colours and pianistic virtuosity, reinvents the genre for the 21st century. The concerto was premiered at the 2019 BBC Proms, and Andreas Haefliger has since performed it in Boston, Munich and Helsinki, where the present recording was made. On all three occasions, he has been partnered by Susanna Mälkki, chief conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra which lends Haefliger eminent support in all three works.

Andreas Haefliger, piano
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki, conductor

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