PAVEL PABST: PIANO CONCERTO in B-flat Major (Concert World Premiere Recording). SERGEI RACHMANINOV: PAGANINI RHAPSODY. PETER TCHAIKOVSKY: FANTASY OVERTURE HAMLET. Total playing time:76.24. PANAGIOTIS TROCHOPOULOS (piano) BELARUS STATE ACADEMIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MARIUS STRAVINSKY (conductor). A SUPERB DIGITAL RECORDING. In 1885, pianist PAVEL PABST gave the premiere performance of his new Piano Concerto in E-flat major in St Petersburg with the great Anton Rubinstein conducting. The concerto score was lost for 120 years. THE LOST CONCERTO was performed in concert, for the first time since its premiere, in April 2005, in Minsk, and in the 150th anniversary year of the birth of PABST, and that public performance is the one presented, unedited, on this CD. PABST's PIANO CONCERTO is a wonderful, romantic three-movement work, lasting 33 minutes. It is full of beautiful tunes. It now takes its rightful place among the great 19th-century concertos on CD with this unique concert recording, and receives stunning debut performances for this digital pure-stereo recording by the brilliant young musicians, pianist PANAGIOTIS TROCHOPOULOS, and British conductor MARIUS STRAVINSKY. Close friends and musical associates of PABST in Moscow, SERGEI RACHMANINOV AND PETER TCHAIKOVSKY, were chosen as the composers for the other works. All the sessions were filmed and a DVD is in the course of preparation. It is planned to be released in April 2009. MUSIC-WEB INTERNATIONAL has graced this CD as RECORD OF THE MONTH with its review of November 22, 2006. "Cameo scores a coup..with this release..it is thoroughly enjoyable and ably played by Panagiotis Trochopoulos..for a live recording, the audience is hardly ever discernable, to the point that the applause at the end comes as a bit of a surprise."