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Yevgeny Sudbin: Releases "insanely difficult" Rachmaninov

  Tobias

On the "Rachmaninov 4 - Medtner 2" CD, along with the North Carolina Symphony conducted by Grant Llewellyn, Yevgeny Sudbin performs the original 1926 Rachmaninov concerto, and defends the rarely heard version in his liner notes. "Much more insanely difficult than the revised version," he says the concerto is a "truly epic work." Medtner's all-but-ignored Second Piano Concerto, according to Sudbin, "offers everything a pianist, or a conductor, can wish for."

Sudbin's earlier CD, nominated for a 2007 Gramophone Award, included Medtner's First Piano Concerto combined with that of Tchaikovsky, and "Le Monde de la Musique" referred to Yevgeny Sudbin as "one of the most exceptional musicians of his generation." In 2008 Sudbin began recording the complete cycle of Beethoven concertos for BIS, in collaboration with the Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä. In his 7-year, 14-album collaboration with BIS Records, Sudbin's works have been critically acclaimed; the International Record Review called him "one of the most important pianistic talents of our time."

Yevgeny Sudbin will perform in London and in Bilbao, Spain, in February 2010, and in Italy and the UK and the US in the spring.

Picture by Clive Barda

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