Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor, Op 50


Date: 1922-7
For: Piano
Published by: Zimmermann 1928
Availability: Zimmermann (2-piano version)

Recordings

Medtner/Dobrowen/Philharmonia 1947 78 HMV DB6559/63 LP Melodiya M10-41171 diff cover CD Testament SBT1027, St-Laurent YSL 78-005, Melodiya MELCD 10-02274 2CDs

Shatskes/Svetlanov/USSR SO 1959 LP Melodiya D 05080/1 Aprelevka Leningrad 1 Leningrad 2 Akkord Tashkent export 1 export 2 export 3 CD Evgeny Svetlanov Foundation SVET 42-47 6cds, Melodiya MELCD 10-01927 2cds, SUCD 10-00176 - nla

Bernette/Alberth/Munich PO 1975/Munich*† CD Master Class MC020 (Brazil) - nla, CRQ Editions CRQ CD307-308 2cd - nla

Shevchuk/Katz/Novosibirsk PO 1976 LP Melodiya C10-08099/100

Madge/Stupel/Artur Rubinstein State PO 1991 CD BIS BISCD1258, Danacord DACOCD402 - nla

Tozer/Järvi/LPO 1991 CD Chandos CHAN9038, CHAN9040 2cds

Demidenko/Maksymiuk/BBC Scottish SO 1991 CD Hyperion CDA66580

Scherbakov/Golovchin/Moscow SO 1996 CD Naxos 8553390

Sudbin/North Carolina SO/Llewellyn 2008 CD BIS BISSACD1728

Hamelin/LPO/Jurowski 2016 CD Hyperion CDA68145

There are broadcast recordings by Bernette/Starek/Berlin RSO (date unknown), Hamelin/Dutoit/Montreal SO 1997/Montreal* and Berezovsky/Sladkovsky/New Russian State SO 2007/Moscow*

† Given on both CDs as a live broadcast on 23 March 1971 with Rudolf Kempe in Munich. Some sources also give the venue as the Munich Philharmonie which was not built until 1985. However Kempe's diary, complete up to July 1974, mentions no such performance. The only recording by Bavarian Radio was on 27 January 1975 with Rudolf Alberth and the Münchner Philharmoniker in Studio 1. (Thanks to Mark Hood)