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Frédéric Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21

1. Maestoso

2. Larghetto

3. Allegro vivace

Antonín Dvořák, String Serenade, Op. 22

1. Moderato

2. Tempo di Valse

3. Scherzo

4. Larghetto

5. Finale

Christian Zacharias plays Chopin and conducts Dvorák

La Roque d'Anthéron 2004

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Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne

Christian Zacharias — Conductor

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Between the piano and the orchestra, intimate ties are woven for a fiery Chopin concerto.

Used to the sweltering heat of the summer nights in the Parc de Florans, the German pianist-conductor Christian Zacharias directs the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra from his piano in Chopin's Concerto n° 2. Between his piano playing and the orchestra, of which he has been the director for a decade, intimate ties have been woven in which distinctions are abolished.

Chopin's concerto, interpreted that evening, seems to spring forth from a single entity. In spite of everything, Zacharias remains a pianist (born in 1950, he was trained in Paris by Vlado Perlemuter) and all the better: "his" Chopin is deeply musical and better than the baton of a conductor, his fingers on the keys carry the orchestra along in an irresistible flow. In the second part, the Serenade for Strings Op. 22 by Dvorak is conducted by a Zacharias still without a baton but without the piano either. He is also good, just as a conductor.

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