Pavel Gomziakov, Tatiana Samouil, Andrei Korobeinikov – Rachmaninoff: Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Pavel Gomziakov, Tatiana Samouil, Andrei Korobeinikov – Rachmaninoff: Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:11:01 minutes | 2,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Onyx Classics

Rachmaninov’s ten chamber works, two left incomplete, all date from his twenties. The most widely performed and best known is the Cello Sonata. The two trios feature daunting piano parts – the composer was still finding his unique style and the influence of Tchaikovsky can be heard in No. 1. The 2nd Trio is a massive work (as is Tchaikovsky’s own Trio), composed just days after Rachmaninov learned of the death of his mentor. It is dedicated “To the memory of a great artist”. The Cello Sonata is mature Rachmaninov, with hints of the 2nd Piano Concerto and 2nd Symphony.
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Pavel Gomziakov, Andrei Korobeinikov – Myaskovsky: Cello Sonatas 1 & 2 – Prokofiev: Ballade – Taneyev: Canzona (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Pavel Gomziakov, Andrei Korobeinikov – Myaskovsky: Cello Sonatas 1 & 2 – Prokofiev: Ballade – Taneyev: Canzona (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:00 minutes | 1023 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Onyx Classics

Myaskovsky’s two cello sonatas are woefully neglected works and deserve far wider circulation – romantic and passionate they make a worthy alternative to Rachmaninov’s famous sonata. Coming from the early and late years of the composer’s life, the 2nd sonata was written for Rostropovitch, who championed it and ensured all his pupils studied and learned it. Prokofiev’s Ballade op15 is an expansive work from his early years and like the Myaskovsky sonatas rarely heard. Pavel Gomziakov and Andrei Korobeinikov are persuasive advocates for these delightful works.
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Andrei Korobeinikov, Mikhail Gaiduk, Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Okko Kamu – Dmitri Chostakovitch: Concertos pour piano n ° 1 et 2, Vingt-quatre Préludes, opus 34 (2011) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Andrei Korobeinikov, Mikhail Gaiduk, Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Okko Kamu – Dmitri Chostakovitch: Concertos pour piano n ° 1 et 2, Vingt-quatre Préludes, opus 34 (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:08 minutes | 625 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare

The program of this album of music by Shostakovich (or, since you are dealing with a French release here, “Chostakovich”) is heterogenous, consisting of the two piano concertos plus the 24 Preludes, Op. 34. So, too, are the performances. You may or may not like the album from start to finish, but Russian pianist Andrei Korobeinikov deserves credit for covering some well-trodden ground and blazing fresh paths. Herewith: one listener’s ranking. Korobeinikov’s recording of the Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102, is one of the very best available, and for this he shares the credit with conductor Okko Kamu and Finland’s superbly agile Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Shostakovich himself disparaged this work, which was written for his son, Maxim. Due to that criticism (which really ought not to be trusted any more than other statements by composers subject to moods of the moment) and to its rather conservative language, this concerto has often gotten short shrift from performers, who take very fast tempos and tend to treat it as a kind of technical exercise. This is one of the few performances (Leonard Bernstein’s classic reading with the New York Philharmonic is another, but this one is perhaps even more detailed) to slow down and let the music’s considerable sprightly grace emerge. The Concerto No. 1 for piano, trumpet, and orchestra in C minor, Op. 35, is hardly less satisfying, with an expansive reading and some very fine trumpet tone from Mikhail Galduk. In both of these performances Korobeinikov and Kamu execute fine realizations of models that, while not exactly common, have been done before. The 24 Preludes, Op. 34, are another story entirely. Part of the genius of these pieces from the early 1930s, and of the later 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, is that they pay tribute to the past without being “neo-classic” works; they contain elements of Chopin’s preludes and of Bach’s without really resembling either one. Korobeinikov, however, pushes them into the Chopin mold, with massive tempo fluctuations, heavy use of the pedals, and in general a heavily Romantic approach. The reading somehow seems not of a piece with the rest of the album, which suggests the degree of the excellent Okko Kamu’s influence, and it doesn’t quite fit with the rest of the musical personality of the young Shostakovich. But it is fresh, and it merits consideration, especially where there is a very compelling reason, in the form of the Piano Concerto No. 2, to add this well-recorded album to one’s Shostakovich shelf. – James Manheim

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Johannes Moser, Andrei Korobeinikov – Rachmaninov, Prokofiev: Works for Cello & Piano (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Johannes Moser, Andrei Korobeinikov – Rachmaninov, Prokofiev: Works for Cello & Piano (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:05 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone

The achingly beautiful, haunting lyricism of early Rachmaninov and the soaring effusiveness of late Prokofiev are glowingly brought to life by the German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser and the Russian pianist Andrei Korobeinikov in this new release from PENTATONE of richly expressive 20th century cello sonatas and other works.

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Andrei Korobeinikov, Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Liss – Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 2 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Andrei Korobeinikov, Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Liss – Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:05 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Fuga Libera

Ein Programm mit Werken von Sergej Prokofjew, das Dmitry Liss und das Ural Philharmonic Orchestra im Juni 2021 in Jekaterinburg aufführten, löste beim Publikum außergewöhnliche Begeisterung und einen Sturm der Gefühle aus. Die Kritiker erklärten damals, dass die “herausragende Aufführung und Interpretation es verdienen, für künftige Generationen aufgezeichnet zu werden”: eine weitere Bestätigung dafür, dass dieses Orchester, das 2020 mit dem Preis der Nationalen Kritik ausgezeichnet wurde, heute zu den besten Orchestern der Welt gezählt werden kann. Diese Aufnahme vom Konzert des Ural Philharmonic Orchestra ist eine gelungene Würdigung des 130. Todestages von Prokofjew.
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Johannes Moser, Andrei Korobeinikov – Martinů: Cello Sonatas (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Johannes Moser, Andrei Korobeinikov - Martinů: Cello Sonatas (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Download

Johannes Moser, Andrei Korobeinikov – Martinů: Cello Sonatas (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 59:49 minutes | 2,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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Cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Andrei Korobeinikov present Bohuslav Martinů’s complete cello sonatas. These works belong to the most significant twentieth-century repertoire for cello and piano. Reflecting Martinů’s troubled existence, defined by wartime, emigration, longing for the homeland, yet also full of hope and life-affirming energy, the music seems entirely topical in our own troubled times. After their award-winning recording of works by Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff from 2016, Moser and Korobeinikov demonstrate their congeniality once more, fully realizing the extreme interdependence of cello and piano in these works.
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Andrei Korobeinikov – Scriabin: Complete Etudes (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Andrei Korobeinikov – Scriabin: Complete Etudes (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:59 minutes | 553 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare

Grouped together in a number of collections, Scriabin’s Études mark out each stage of his life and display both his technical relationship to the keyboard and the evolution of his harmonic language, from the influence of Chopin to atonalism. The seventh of his ten sonatas, entitled Messe blanche, is a high point of his entire output, looking far ahead into the sound world of the 20th century.

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