Older listeners will remember Shura Cherkassky (1909-1995), one of the great Russian pianists of the middle years of the twentieth century. Younger listeners might remember Cherkassky as a very old man still making records. Very young listeners will probably not remember Cherkassky at all. And to those very young listeners, this recording of Cherkassky playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 will be a revelation. Taped at Royal Festival Hall on January 30, 1968, with Georg Solti leading the London Symphony Orchestra, ...
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Older listeners will remember Shura Cherkassky (1909-1995), one of the great Russian pianists of the middle years of the twentieth century. Younger listeners might remember Cherkassky as a very old man still making records. Very young listeners will probably not remember Cherkassky at all. And to those very young listeners, this recording of Cherkassky playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 will be a revelation. Taped at Royal Festival Hall on January 30, 1968, with Georg Solti leading the London Symphony Orchestra, Cherkassky turns in one of the most exciting, the most delightful, the most soulful, and the most stirring performances of Tchaikovsky's war horse ever recorded. From the massive opening molto maestoso through the frenetic Allegro con spirito, the fantastic Prestissimo and the incandescent Allegro con fuoco, Cherkassky rips and roars in a piece that has been ridden nearly to death by generations of Russian bangers. But in 1968, Cherkassky was no banger, he was a transcendentally...
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