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80th BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO PETER KATIN
SOMMCD0110
Peter Katin remains one of my favourite pianists, and his recording of the Rachmaninov Preludes shows him at his absolute best. Katin's sound-world is utterly his own, and his variety of sonority is put to tremendous poetic effect in these readings, where the glittering edge of his cantabile is matched by playing of ardent commitment in the more vigorous Preludes.
International Piano
This reissue of Katin's 1972 recording of Rachmaninov's mighty gathering of 24 Preludes, one in each key, is an 80th-birthday tribute to the British pianist, and includes an interesting interview with him, as well as his own notes on each item. His playing is magisterial: one couldn't
ask for more insight, intensity, virtuosity in this prodigious repertoire. No other piano preludes have quite Rachmaninov's way of combining giganticism and intimacy, of driving immensity into a nutshell. Whether tenderly reflective or in monumental mood, the music redefines totally convincingly what a "prelude" might be: an auspicious fragment of the Beyond. Katin fixes them superbly in the here and now. PD
Sunday Times, 18 Sept 2011
Peter Katin is one this country's most respected elder statesmen of pianism. Perhaps he has never received the accolades he undoubtedly deserves (glammy marketing from his agents at the start of his career may have counted against him), but his thoughtful performances of not least the Romantic composers have always carried a great deal of interpretative weight. Many decades ago I remember reviewing an absorbing Chopin recital from him in Solihull, and now it has been my privilege to write a preface in the notes to this release of the complete Rachmaninov preludes, incisive, unflashily virtuosic where necessary (Rachmaninov himself was never a showman), and always poetically thoughtful.
Classical CD Review, 22 September 2011
Katin's preludes begin commandingly well with the C sharp minor in which 'breath control', pacing and dynamics all conspire to produce a simply magnificent result. The silences between notes are weighted to perfection; the rhetoric well judged. The mot juste is found again in No. 3 in D minor and in the lull-lapping of its Op. 23 successor. The drama and melt of the G minor (No. 5) is also superbly orated and swooned. The final prelude in Op. 23 is self-effacing and elusive - a confident down-beat. The halting, dancing, rushing, stormy No. 4 in E minor is splendidly mercurial and the virtuosic No. 8 in A minor seems more than ever to be struck through with mirror-distorted echoes of Beethoven's 'fate' motif. No. 10 in B minor has the placid gravity of the famous C sharp minor. The F sharp minor comes across as rather disjointed but this is very much the exception. Katin wonderfully projects the symphonic ascent and grandeur of this music and leaves us with this same impression with the final D flat major. Such a pity he never recorded the Etudes-Tableaux or the Medtner Ballades. The 1970s analogue recording is in good heart.
Rob Barnett, Music Web International Classical Review, 29 September 1011.
This generous collection of the complete Rachmaninov Preludes, reissued on the Somm label, is a self-recommending bargain. The pianist is Peter Katin, who celebrated his 80th-birthday in November 2010. These recordings were made when Katin was at the height of his formidable powers, a much-loved figure on concert platforms around the world. A renowned specialist in 19th- and 20th-century Romantic and Impressionist repertoire, Rachmaninov was one of Katin's particular strengths (he had first shot to fame following his 1953 Proms performance of the Third Piano Concerto – an account which also contributed towards securing the fame of that work).
Graham Rogers, www.classicalsource.com
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Brahms: Concerto No. 1
BBC Scottish Orchestra, Ian Whyte
Pristine Audio (live)
Recorded 1958
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Peter Katin: A Chopin Recital
Orchestral Concert CDs. CD11/2010
Recorded Live, Fairfield Halls, 1965
Produced by www.occds.org
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Alfredo Campoli & Peter Katin
Music by Mozart, Beethoven, Brams
Orchestral Concert CDs. CD3/2009. Recorded 1963/1973
Produced by www.occds.org
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Prokofiev: Concerto No.3
Prague Symphony Orchestra, Zdenek Kosler
Live performance from the RFH, 1967, CD2/2008.
Produced by www.occds.org
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HAYDN: Four Sonatas
to be issued in 2010
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MOZART: The complete Sonatas
ALTARA ALT 1026, Boxed set of five CDs
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SCARLATTI: 14 Sonatas
CLAUDIO CR 35102-D
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MENDELSSOHN: Two piano concertos
(LSO/Collins)
Two concert pieces (LPO/Martinon)
With other Mendelssohn works played by John Ogdon & Brenda Lucas.
DOUBLE DECCA 4524102 (2 CDs)
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MENDELSSOHN: Two piano concertos
(LSO/Collins)
Original mono version.
Archipel ARPCD 0203
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RACHMANINOV: Concerto No.1
(LPO/Boult)
Belart/Decca 461 3482
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KHACHATURYAN: Concerto
(LSO/Rignold)
FRANCK: Symphonic Variations (LSO/Goossens)
EVEREST EVC 9060
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS:
Fantasia on the Old 104th
(LPO/LPC/Sir Adrian Boult)
With other orchestral works
EMI Classics CDM 7243 5 74782 2
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TCHAIKOVSKY: Concerto No.1
LITOLFF: Scherzo
(LPO/Pritchard)
Classics for Pleasure 5 72699 2
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CHILDREN'S CORNER
Grovlez: L'Almanach aux Images
Déodat de Séverac: En Vacances
Ibert: Histoires
Debussy: Children's Corner
SIMAX PSC 1067
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WALTON: Sinfonia Concertante
(LSO/Walton)
With other orchestral works
Lyrita SRCD 224
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WILLIAM MATHIAS: Concerto No.3
(LSO/Atherton)
With other works
SRCD 325
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CLEMENTI: Clementi on Clementi
five Sonatas, played on a restored Clementi square piano of 1832
DIVERSIONS DIV 24413
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SCHUBERT: The Impromptus D899 and D935
(Clementi 1832)
DIVERSIONS CD24112
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SCHUBERT: Drei Klavierstücke D946; Valses Nobles D969; Moments Musicaux D780
(Clementi 1832)
DIVERSIONS DIV 23007
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LIVE RECITAL
including Liszt Sonata and Brahms/Händel Variations
(1983 - previously unissued)
Minerva ATH CD 9
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CHOPIN: "FIRST & LAST"
Early and late music played on Peter Katin's own Collard & Collard square piano c.1836
DIVERSIONS DIV 24116
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FINZI: Eclogue, Grand Fantasia and Toccata
(New Philharmonia/Vernon Handley)
Lyrita SRCD 239
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LISZT RECITAL 1
DANTE SONATA ETC
PRISTINE AUDIO PAKM024
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LISZT RECITAL 2
HUNGARIAN RHAPSODIES ETC
PRISTINE AUDIO PAKM025
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