🇷🇺Aram Il'ich Khachaturian ： Concerto-Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra

The piano’s brilliant virtuosity intertwines with the orchestra’s rich colors, while powerful rhythms and songful melodies create a wide range of expression. Contrasting passages in which the soloist takes the foreground with those in which the orchestra adds weight bring vivid tension and release within a fluid progression. Highlights include the energetic sections that demand crisp articulation and the lyrical passages in which the melody unfolds in long, sustained lines. In performance, brilliance should not take precedence over rhythmic sharpness and a steady pulse. Awareness of the exchanges with the orchestra in detailed figures, together with carefully shaped changes of tone color and phrase direction, helps convey the work’s overall rise and fall.