Концерт за пиано и оркестър оп. 60 на Николай Стойков през погледа на интерпретатора
Nikolay Stoykov’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 60 through the Eyes of the Interpreter

Summary/Abstract: Nikolay Stoykov’s Concerto for Piano and Full Orchestra, Opus 60 is a large-scope 25-minute work, constructed in three movements. The emphasis in the first movement, Libero, is laid on an elaborate dialogue between the orchestra and the soloist. The soloist‘s expanded cadenza summarizes the intense musical development. Quasi Andante, the second movement, emanates eastern contemplative and allegorical mood. In the middle of the movement there follows another piano solo which is the main compositional plane around which the aleatoricsonoristic composition develops. Attacca introduces the third movement, Tres ritmico. In the refrain section there pulsate changing measures in the style of the Balkan folk dance tradition. Section B of the third movement is a sombre sound picture, which brings back the atmosphere from the introduction. In section D the cluster piano-orchestra dialogue develops into a quasi cadenza of the soloist which takes the music to the evolution of the recapitulation conclusive section. The coda, Stretto. Presto, sums up in fast rhythm the vivid imagery of the concerto which was performed for the first time in April 2009 by the Pleven Symphony under the baton of Maestro Yordan Dafov, with Romeo Smilkov as soloist.

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