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Melcher Melchers

Piano Concertos

Peter Jablonski, piano
Gävle Symphony Orchestra
Christian Reif, conductor

ODE 1457-2 · CD · October 2026

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Track listing

6 tracks · 62:50

Melcher Melchers (1882–1961)

  1. 1 Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 18 (1923): I. Molto sostenuto – Molto Allegro 16:23
  2. 2 Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 18 (1923): II. Lento, molto espressivo 6:05
  3. 3 Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 18 (1923): III. Allegro vivace 8:43
  4. 4 Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 23 (1931): I. Allegro 15:14
  5. 5 Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 23 (1931): II. Andante, molto espressivo 8:59
  6. 6 Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 23 (1931): III. Allegro 7:26

Features

World première recording of Piano Concerto No. 1

Liner notes in English

The artists

Peter Jablonski

Described by the Gramophone as 'a pianist in full flower of his mature, imaginative artistry' in 2022, Peter Jablonski is an award-winning internationally acclaimed Swedish artist. He is among the leading pianists of his generation, and during the last thirty years on international stages has performed with over 150 orchestras, given over 2000 concerts, and has been on 25 tours of Japan. Discovered by Abbado and Ashkenazy and signed by Decca in his seventeenth year, he went on to perform, collaborate, and record with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, which include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Kirov (now Mariinsky), La Scala Philharmonic, Tonhalle Zurich, Orchestre Nationale de France, NHK Tokyo, DSO Berlin, Warsaw Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Cleveland Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valery Gergiev, Andris Nelsons, Daniel Harding, Kurt Sanderling, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, and Myung-Whun Chung.

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Gävle Symphony Orchestra

The Gävle Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1912, has a long and exciting history, but its focus is always on the future. Each concert presents an opportunity to deliver the very best, and to meet the expectations of the audience for an artistic experience at the highest level.

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