The big news here isn't that Kathryn Stott has turned in another impressive recording of Kabalevsky's piano concertos. The virtuosic English pianist had already done that with her previous recording of his second and third concertos in 2005. The big news here is that Neeme Järvi, once the most recorded conductor in the world, has turned in his third recording for the Chandos label since the two bitterly and publicly parted company more than a decade ago. A talented conductor with a prodigious ability to learn scores, Järvi ...
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The big news here isn't that Kathryn Stott has turned in another impressive recording of Kabalevsky's piano concertos. The virtuosic English pianist had already done that with her previous recording of his second and third concertos in 2005. The big news here is that Neeme Järvi, once the most recorded conductor in the world, has turned in his third recording for the Chandos label since the two bitterly and publicly parted company more than a decade ago. A talented conductor with a prodigious ability to learn scores, Järvi benefited greatly from the increased popularity of classical music with the introduction of digital technology. By the early '90s, Järvi had recorded enormous amounts of music outside the mainstream -- the complete symphonies of Berwald, Schmidt, and Kalinnikov, for example -- and he came to believe Chandos ought to give him a shot at more standard repertoire. After the artistic and financial disappointment of his Brahms cycle, however, Chandos declined to expand Järvi's territory....
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