FIVE STARS REVIEW IN BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

The new album of the complete Sergei Rachmaninoff piano concertos, made by Lukáš Vondráček, one of the most renowned contemporary Czech pianists, and the Prague Symphony Orchestra, conducted by its music director Tomáš Brauner, has received a wonderful five stars review in the May issue of BBC Music Magazine.

“These performances, recorded during lockdown in Prague, prove to be every bit as exciting… As with the finest Rachmaninov interpreters, Vondráček brings a wealth of colour to the solo part, paying exemplary attention to high lighting polyphonically interesting inner parts in the composer’s so­metimes texturally involved writing. Most importantly, he has a clear view of the emotional trajectory of each work, exploiting to the full its contrasting moods of melancholy, grotesquerie, nostalgia and exultation. The Prague Symphony Orchestra under Tomáš Brauner establish a formidable partnership with Vondráček, responding incisively to every twist and turn in his playing.”

PERFORMANCE *****

RECORDING *****