─ 拉赫蒂交響樂團
─ 迪瑪．斯洛波德紐克／指揮
─ 錄音地點：芬蘭西貝流士音樂廳

★大陸鋼琴家張昊辰的首張協奏曲專輯收錄了兩首重量級的曲目。

2009年范.克萊本音樂比賽冠軍張昊辰習慣於接受挑戰. 在他的首張協奏曲專輯中勇敢的接受普羅高菲夫的第二號鋼琴協奏曲艱難的挑戰再次的證明了這一點. 第二號鋼琴協奏曲第一樂章一開始就有一大段華彩樂段（Cadenza）, 這對鋼琴家的要求很高是眾所周知的. 這點解釋了為何此曲有一段很長的時間比第一號和第三號較少為人知, 一直到近代才在協奏曲目中獲得應該有的地位.

第二號鋼琴協奏曲在1913年由作曲家親自在音樂會中首演, 其現代主義的聲音和不和諧的旋律使聽眾感到震驚. 雖然普羅高菲夫喜歡有現代主義頑童的聲譽, 但在他的整個職業生涯中, 他的作品暗藏著豐富的俄羅斯音樂傳統. 因此張昊辰挑選符合這個傳統而且是最受歡迎的柴可夫斯基第一號鋼琴協奏曲來完成這張專輯. 在這兩首作品中, 首席指揮迪瑪．斯洛波德紐克率領拉赫蒂交響樂團為張昊辰伴奏.

HaochenZhang, piano
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Dima Slobodeniouk

Two heavyweights rub shoulders on Haochen Zhang’s debut concerto disc

Winner of the 2009 Van Cliburn competition, Haochen Zhang is no stranger to a challenge. On this début concerto disc he proves this once more, boldly jumping in at the deep end as he takes on Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2. The demands posed by Prokofiev’s concerto are famous, starting with a huge cadenza already in the first movement. This may explain why the concerto was for a long time relatively unknown and, unlike the First and Third Piano Concertos, has only recently taken its rightful place in the repertoir.


The work was premiered by the composer himself in 1913, shocking the audience with its modernistic sounds and jagged rhythms. But even though Prokofiev was happy to nurture a reputation for bad-boy modernism, there is also a rich seam of Russian tradition which underlie his music from the beginning to the end of his career. It is therefore fitting that Haochen Zhang has chosen to complete the disc with one of the best-loved concertos from that tradition: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto in B flat minor. In both works, Zhang is supported by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra under the baton of its principal conductor, Dima Slobodeniouk.