Audite reviews
Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Marc Coppey (cello); Polish National Radio Symphony/Lawrence Foster (Audite)
Liszt: Sardanapalo; Mazeppa
Joyce El-Khoury, Airam Hernández, Oleksandr Pushniak; Staatskappelle Weimar/Kirill Karabits (Audite)
Dvořák • Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, etc
Balkan Chamber Orchestra/Toshio Yanagisawa (Audite)
Schubert: Late Piano Works, Vol. 2
Andrea Lucchesini (piano) (Audite)
R Strauss: Macbeth; Don Juan; Tod und Verklärung; Festmarsch
Staatskapelle Weimar/Kirill Karabits (Audite)
Liszt: Dante Symphony/Künstlerfestzug
Staatskapelle Weimar/Kirill Karabits (Audite)
Franziska Pietsch performs Prokofiev's Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2
After the surprise of one apparent outsider shooting to the top of the Prokofiev list – Rosanne Philippens with the excellent St Gallen Symphony Orchestra and Otto Tausk (see the January issue) – it’s back to business and programming as usual. Franziska Pietsch has been described as the ‘Anne-Sophie Mutter of East Germany’, and here she gives performances of the two concertos – and nothing else. You would be happy enough to hear this in the concert hall but it doesn’t justify a place in a crowded CD market.