New Music Albums: MANU SINISTRA (Illia Ovcharenko, Oksana Lyniv, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra)

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Artist:
Illia Ovcharenko
MDR-Sinfonieorchester
Oksana Lyniv

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
74:00

Record Label:
Pentatone

Purchase Album:
Amazon Music,
Apple Music, Spotify

Release Date
March 20, 2026

Find out more about this album release after the jump.

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Product Description: Illia Ovcharenko, together with the MDR-Sinfonieorchester under the baton of Oksana Lyniv, presents Manu Sinistra, an album devoted to concertos for the left hand by Bortkiewicz, Prokofiev, and Ravel. These works were written for the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I and responded to personal tragedy by commissioning new music. The programme unfolds as three radically different responses to this unique challenge, from the sweeping Romanticism of Bortkiewicz’s Piano Concerto No. 2 to the sharply defined and seldom-performed Fourth Concerto by Prokofiev – a work Wittgenstein himself could not comprehend.

At the centre stands Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand, a dark, masterfully constructed work of striking colour and illusion. For Ovcharenko, winner of the 2022 Honens International Piano Competition, this repertoire resonates deeply, further enriched by the presence of Ukrainian-born Sergei Bortkiewicz, whose voice connects the album to the pianist’s heritage. A Classeek Ambassador Programme Artist, Ovcharenko makes his PENTATONE debut in a concerto recording alongside Lyniv and the MDR-Sinfonieorchester.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 28: I. Allegro dramatico (09:25)

2 . Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 28: II. Andante cantabile (14:28)

3 . Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 28: III. Allegro vivo (06:57)

4 . Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, M. 82: I. Lento (08:38)

5 . Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, M. 82: II. Allegro (04:50)

6 . Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, M. 82: III. Tempo I (05:30)

7 . Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 53: I. Vivace (04:40)

8 . Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 53: II. Andante (09:52)

9 . Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 53: III. Moderato (08:02)

10 .Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 53: IV. Vivace (01:42)

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