Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Moments Musicaux Alexander Krichel

• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1934): Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
• 1 I. Moderato (48kHz) 11:29
• 2 II. Adagio sostenuto (48kHz) 11:44
• 3 III. Allegro scherzando (48kHz) 11:43
• Moments Musicaux, Op. 16
• 4 I. Andantino 06:57
• 5 II. Allegro 03:05
• 6 III. Andante cantabile 06:20
• 7 IV. Presto 03:11
• 8 V. Adagio sostenuto 04:41
• 9 VI. Maestoso 04:56
• Alexander Krichel (1989-): Lullaby
• 10 Lullaby 03:07
• Total Runtime 01:07:13

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Alexander Krichel ist einer der talentiertesten jungen Pianisten seiner Generation und entfacht überall, wo er auftritt, Begeisterung bei Presse und Publikum. Er überzeugt mit Virtuosität, Dynamik und musikalischer Intensität und bringt »das Klavier so zum Singen, wie man es nur selten hört. Tiefe, Sensibilität und Eleganz verschmelzen bei ihm zu vollkommener Schönheit, so dass man sich nicht satt hören kann« (Crescendo). Bereits sein Debütalbum wurde zum Bestseller und mit dem ECHO Klassik ausgezeichnet.

Für seine neues Album wählte er eines der berühmtesten Klavierkonzerte der Spätromantik. Mit der Dresdner Philharmonie unter der Leitung von Michael Sanderling spielt er Sergei Rachmaninoffs Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 in c-Moll, das mit seiner leidenschaftlichen, poetischen Musik und seinen unwiderstehlichen Melodien bis heute sein populärstes Werk ist. Reizvoll kombiniert mit Rachmaninoffs facettenreichen Moments musicaux op. 16 für Klavier solo, deren Name inspiriert wurde von Franz Schuberts gleichnamiger Sammlung musikalischer Miniaturen, präsentiert Alexander Krichel ein Programm das sowohl technisch als auch künstlerisch höchste Ansprüche an den Interpreten stellt.

Alexander Krichel, Klavier
Dresdner Philharmonie
Michael Sanderling, Dirigent

Alexander Krichel
Born in Hamburg in 1989, Alexander Krichel started to play the piano at the age of six. He became a pre student at Hamburg University of Music and Drama at the age of 15. From 2007 he continued his studies with the legendary Vladimir Krainev at Hanover University of Music and Drama. He is currently studying under the tutelage of Dmitri Alexeev at Royal College of Music in London. Alexander Krichel is a winner of several international and national piano competitions and was awarded the renowned the ECHO Klassik as Newcomer Of The Year in 2013.

In 2011 Alexander Krichel signed an exclusive recording contract with SONY Classical. His first album for Sony, 'Frühlingsnacht', was released in February 2013 to great acclaim from critics and the public alike, and entered the German classical charts straightaway.

His second album for SONY Classical that contains works for piano and orchestra by Mozart, Chopin and Hummel was released in September 2014. It was produced with the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra under Wojciech Rajski.

The third SONY Classical production will be a Rachmaninov album that is going to be published in 2015.

Alexander has performed in nearly all German major concert venues such as Konzerthaus Berlin, Hamburg Laeiszhalle, Munich Herkulessaal and Prinzregententheater, Cologne Philharmonie and Düsseldorf Tonhalle. Future recital engagements feature débuts in Vienna Konzerthaus (Austria) and Zurich Tonhalle (Switzerland).

The festivals he has appeared at include the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the Kissinger Sommer and the Ocean Sun Music Festival.

Outside Germany, Alexander Krichel has played in England, France, Italy, Poland, Romania, Luxemburg, Switzerland and farther afield in the USA, Japan and South America.

Last season featured his acclaimed débuts with Bamberg Symphony Orchestra under Jonathan Nott, Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra under Aleksandar Markovich, Chamber Orchestra of Staatskapelle Berlin, Lucerne Festival Strings, Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra and Orquesta Filármonica Nacional de Venezuela.

For the 2012/13 season, Alexander Krichel was admitted to Bayer Kultur's stART programme. The culture department of pharmaceuticals and chemicals company Bayer will be sponsoring him for a period of three years, and Krichel will give numerous concert performances under their aegis. In addition, he receives scholarships from the Oscar & Vera Ritter Foundation and the PE Foundation and is a RCM Scholar supported by a Kenneth and Violet Scott and a Hilda Houssart Award.

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