This 4CD box set includes mostly unreleased performances of the First Prizes and winners of the audience prizes from the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition in 2013 and 2016. You will find: Boris Giltburg (First Prize and Canvas-Klaraprijs 2013); Mateusz Borowiak (3rd Prize and Musiq3 Prize 2013); Lukáš Vondráček (First Prize and Canvas-Klaraprijs 2016); and Alberto Ferro (6th Prize and Musiq3 Prize 2016). Four pianists with very different artistic personalities, each nonetheless having left his mark on two memorable piano sessions of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, and provided some magnificent musical moments to be found in this box set.
Works:
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Klavierkonzert Nr. 15 (Boris Giltburg)
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Klaviersonate Nr. 27 (Boris Giltburg)
• Franz Liszt: Klaviersonate h-moll (Boris Giltburg)
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita BWV826 (Mateusz Borowiak)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Klavierkonzert Nr. 9 (Mateusz Borowiak)
• Maurice Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit (Mateusz Borowiak)
• Johannes Brahms: Klaviersonate Nr. 3 (Lukas Vondracek)
• Sergej Rachmaninov: Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 (Lukas Vondracek)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Klavierkonzert Nr. 21 (Alberto Ferro)
• Sergej Rachmaninov: Corelli-Variationen op. 42 (Alberto Ferro)
• Franz Liszt: Hungarische Rhapsodie Nr. 2 (Alberto Ferro)