David Toradze: Piano Concerto Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Alexander Toradze & Gianandrea Noseda

• David Toradze (1922 - 1983): Piano Concerto:
• 1 D. Toradze: Piano Concerto - parte 1 20:21
• 2 D. Toradze: Piano Concerto - parte 2 11:40
• Alexander Toradze (1952 - 2022): Remembers His Father”:
• 3 A. Toradze: Remembers His Father” 07:34
• on Interpreting Prokofiev’s Seventh Piano Sonata”:
• 4 A. Toradze: on Interpreting Prokofiev’s Seventh Piano Sonata” 07:39
• on Interpreting the Piano Sonata op. 109 by L. van Beethoven”
• 5 A. Toradze: on Interpreting the Piano Sonata op. 109 by L. van Beethoven” 05:56
• Total Runtime 53:10

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Eine Erinnerung von Gianandrea Noseda: Alexander „Lexo“ Toradze und ich standen oft gemeinsam auf der Bühne. Für mich war es eine meiner größten künstlerischen Partnerschaften, die mehrere Zyklen mit Klavierkonzerten von Prokofjew, beide Klavierkonzerte von Schostakowitsch, Strawinsky, Ravels G-Dur, Rachmaninow Nr. 3 und Tschaikowsky Nr. 1 umfasste. Aber am stolzesten bin ich, dass wir im Januar 2005 das Klavierkonzert seines Vaters David Toradze in Turin aufführen konnten. Ich kannte das Stück, weil ich es einige Jahre zuvor in St. Petersburg für Valery Gergiev vorbereitet hatte. Die Aufführung in Turin war unglaublich berührend, weil ich den Eindruck hatte, Lexo konnte sich endlich mit seinem Vater versöhnen, der 1983 wenige Wochen nach seiner Flucht aus der Sowjetunion verstorben war. Lexos Verhältnis zur Erinnerung an seinen Vater war schwierig und er schien die moralische Verantwortung für dessen Tod zu tragen. Lexo und ich hatten geplant, im Sommer 2020 im Rahmen des Tsinandali-Festivals die georgische Erstaufführung von David Toradzes Klavierkonzert zu präsentieren, doch die Pandemie erzwang die Absage des Festivals. Diese Aufnahme repräsentiert daher Lexos spirituelles Erbe. Sie ist nicht nur eine Hommage an seine innig gequälte Beziehung zu seinem Vater, sondern auch an die gesamte Familie Toradzes, seine Mutter Liana und seine Schwester Nino. Es ist mir eine Ehre, daran beteiligt gewesen zu sein, und sie ist eine Erinnerung an meine Freundschaft mit diesem unglaublichen Künstler.

Alexander Toradze, Klavier
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI
Gianandrea Noseda, Dirigent

Alexander Toradze
is universally recognized as a masterful virtuoso in the grand Romantic tradition. He has enriched the Great Russian pianistic heritage with his own unorthodox interpretative conceptions, deeply poetic lyricism, and intensely emotional excitement.

Mr. Toradze’s recording of all five Prokofiev concertos with Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra for the Philips label, is acclaimed by critics as definitive. His recording of Prokofiev’s Piano Concert No. 3 was named by International Piano Quarterly as «historically the best on record» (from among over seventy recordings). Other highly successful recordings have included Scriabin’s Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, with the Kirov Orchestra, Valery Gergiev conducting as well as recital albums of the works of Mussorgsky, Stravinsky, Ravel and Prokofiev for the Angel/EMI label.

Mr. Toradze regularly appears with the world’s leading orchestras. Among his best friends, some of the leading conductors of today such as Valery Gergiev, Esa Pekka Salonen, Yukka Pekka Saraste, Mikko Frank, Paavo and Kristian Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski and Gianandrea Noseda. Additionally, Mr. Toradze regularly takes part in many summer music festivals including those of Salzburg, the White Nights in St. Petersburg, London’s BBC Proms concerts, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Mikkeli (Finland), the Hollywood Bowl, Saratoga, and Ravinia.

Recent engagements include the BBC Philharmonic and Swedish Radio Orchestras under Gianandrea Noseda, the London Symphony and the Mariinsky Orchestras under Valery Gergiev, the Cincinnati Symphony under Paavo Järvi, the London Philharmonic under the Music Director Vladimir Jurowski and Jukka Pekka Saraste in addition to concerts with the Orchestre National de France, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Czech and the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestras. In March 2010 he took part to a US tour with the London Philharmonic under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski, including a concert at the Avery Fisher Hall in New York.

Among recent projects were the opening concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stresa Festival under the baton of Gianandrea Noseda, the recording of both Shostakovich Pianoconcerti with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi.

Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Alexander Toradze graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and soon became a professor there. In 1983, he moved permanently to the United States and in 1991 he was appointed as the Martin endowed Professor of Piano at the Indiana University South Bend, where he has created a teaching environment that is unparalleled in its unique concept. The members of the multi- national Toradze Piano Studio have developed into a worldwide touring ensemble that has performed projects detailing the piano and chamber works of Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Dvorak, Stravinsky and Shostakovich in Europe (UK, Italy, Germany, Portugal, France) and in the United States.

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