Piano Concertos

Nelson Goerner has always dreamed of recording these two masterworks of the concert repertoire. In Kazuki Yamada he has found the ideal partner, who approaches the two piano concertos by Ravel with the sensitivity and poetry for which Nelson Goerner is widely known. The two works, composed at the same moment and premiered in 1932, are very different: the Concerto for the Left Hand, premiered in Vienna, was written at the request of pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in 1914; the Concerto in G Major, premiered in Paris, is known for its verve and famous pianistic entries. Ravel had composed the "Pavane pour une infante defunte" some 33 years earlier, a famous miniature of exquisite nostalgia. The program is completed by the "Valses nobles et sentimentales"; Marguerite Long, who premiered the Concerto in G Major, saw these eight interconnected pieces as a "stylistic panorama of the waltz" Waltz".