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Arensky & Bortkiewicz: Piano Concertos

Arensky & Bortkiewicz: Piano Concertos

Stephen Coombs (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor)

CDA66624

Anton Stepanovich Arensky and Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz are hardly household names. Arensky’s delicious Piano Trio in D minor continues to keep its place on the fringes of the chamber repertoire, and the Waltz movement from his Suite for two pianos receives an occasional outing; otherwise nothing. Who has even heard of Bortkiewicz other than aficionados of the piano’s dustier repertoire?

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