Boris Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto (Audio + Full Score)

Boris Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto (1971) The USSR All-Union Radio & Central Television Grand Symphony Orchestra Conductor - Vladimir Fedoseev Piano - Boris Tchaikovsky Movement I - 0:00 Movement II - 5:29 Movement III - 15:20 Movement IV - 21:51 Movement V - 28:42 (Note: The individual movements lack both titles and expression markings) “That’s Boris Tchaikovsky in the headnote, not Pyotr. And, many will assert, there’s a big difference. Who can quarrel with that? Yet, I’m not so sure Boris is far behind his namesake. The notes to this disc, by Louis Blois, go to some length to emphasize that rhythm is driving element throughout the five-movement Piano Concerto. Indeed. But minimalism also plays a part: the first movement, a toccata, is built upon an insistent, rapidly repeating eight note (G, just above middle C), which later evolves into chords, all hammered out in a seeming frenzy. It’s quite exciting, but you won’t recognize a con