Dohnányi: Piano Concertos

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These two first-rate concertos reveal very different sides of this neglected master. Brahms praised Dohnányi's early chamber works, and the influence is very obvious in the First Piano Concerto. It's a big, Romantic piece of substantial length with lots of good tunes and heaps of work for the soloist. The Second Concerto, by contrast, is much shorter, but even more tightly constructed. It begins with a very memorable horn theme that sounds strikingly Hungarian, and may well turn out to be the more popular of the two, but we'll never know unless people start listening to them! So if you're a fan of Romantic music for piano and orchestra, then check out this very well played and recorded disc. --David Hurwitz

Dohnányi: Piano Concertos,Ernst von Dohnanyi,Gyorgy Gyorivanyi-Rath,Budapest Symphony Orchestra,Laszlo Baranyai,Hungaroton,Classical,Classical Composers,Concerto,Piano Concerto

Average customer rating: Modern according to the date of composition, but really a rejection of innovation Fantastic violin music Splendid music of our time 3 Talented American Composers and 1 Gifted Violinist

Glass / Rorem / Bernstein: Violin Concertos / Serenade Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Glass | Glass, Philip | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Kremer, Gidon | ( K ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music New York Philharmonic Orchestra | ( N ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | ( V ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Deutsche Grammophon: Music | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: The American Album: The Perlman Edition Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa; Symphony No. 3; Collage Rautavaara: Violin Concerto; Angels and Visitations; Isle of Bliss Humiwo Hayasaka: Piano Concerto; Ancient Dances Pärt: Tabula Rasa; Fratres; Symphony No. 3 ASIN: B00001X596 Release Date: 1999-10-12

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1. Concerto For Violin And Orchestra: Quarter Note = 104 - Quarter Note = 120
2. Concerto For Violin And Orchestra: Quarter Note = Ca. 108
3. Concerto For Violin And Orchestra: Quarter Note = 150 - Coda: Poco meno Quarter Note = 104
4. Violin Concerto: 1. Twilight: Free And Spacious - attacca:
5. Violin Concerto: 2. Toccata-Chaconne: Very Fast
6. Violin Concerto: 3. Romance Without Words: Hardly Moving
7. Violin Concerto: 4. Midnight: Slow
8. Violin Concerto: 5. Toccata-Rondo: Very Fast
9. Violin Concerto: 6. Dawn: Wistful
10. I. Phaedrus - Pausanias: Lento - Allegro marcato
11. II. Aristophanes: Allegretto
12. III. Erixymachus: Presto
13. IV. Agathon: Adagio
14. V. Socrates - Alcibiades: Molto tenuto - Allegro molto vivace

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Here are three 20th-century violin concertos written within a 30-year period in three totally different styles, played by a soloist equally at home in all of them. Bernstein's Serenade, the earliest and most accessible work, takes its inspiration from Plato's Symposium; its five movements, musical portraits of the banquet's guests, represent different aspects of love as well as running the gamut of Bernstein's contrasting compositional styles. Rorem's concerto sounds wonderful. Its six movements have titles corresponding to their forms or moods; their character ranges from fast, brilliant, explosive to slow, passionate, melodious. Philip Glass's concerto, despite its conventional three movements and tonal, consonant harmonies, is the most elusive. Written in the "minimalist" style, which for most ordinary listeners is an acquired taste, it is based on repetition of small running figures both for orchestra and soloist, occasionally interrupted by long, high, singing lines in the violin against or above the orchestra's pulsation. Gidon Kremer, well known for his championship of contemporary composers, plays fabulously; his tone soars, shimmers, and glows. His identification with the music is complete. --Edith Eisler

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Modern according to the date of composition, but really a rejection of innovation.......2005-11-05

This disc in Deutsche Grammaphon's "20/21" line of performances of contemporary music collects three violin concertos by three very different American composers with a spotlight on Gidon Kremer, virtuoso of modern violin repetoire. Philip Glass, Leonard Bernstein, and Ned Rorem are all composers enjoying popular acclaim and have been associated with New York, yet their styles have little in common. Philip Glass is well-known for minimalism, Ned Rorem for a rural and pastoral ethic, and Bernstein for his theatrical endeavours

Philip Glass' three-movement "Concerto for violin and orchestra" (1987) is fairly entertaining but unwholly uninsightful. I think minimalism is one of the greatest disasters to befall contemporary music, and has provided more charlatans than any other style (and I would definitely include Glass among such). I prefer the zahlenmystik of Gubaidulina, the frenetic business of Lindberg, or even the academic dryness of the lab coat-wearing composer Boulez. Yet, I can appreciate some works of Reich and Part. The music of Glass, on the other hand, lacks innovation and is so blatantly derivative of the passionate music of yesteryear, and this piece comes from what even many Glass fans consider to have been his darkest days. This piece is performed by the Wiener Philharmonik with Christoph von Dohanyi, who give an unobjectionable go at this dull piece.

The second piece on the disc is Ned Rorem's "Violin Concerto" (1984). Six movements conceived by the composer as songs (but lacking words), the piece could also fairly be called, says Rorem in the notes, a concertino or variations or even a suite. The Romantic first movement "Twilight", sparse with violin above strings, leads to a second movement "Toccata-Chaconne" with admirable use of percussion as a major player in its own right. The brief third movement "Romance without Words" sounds just like what its title suggests, as does "Twilight". "Toccata-Rondo", the fifth movement, is the fastest of all, and pairs the violin first with percussion and then with brass. The final "Dawn" is marked to be "wistful", and slowly ends the piece. I think that the piece as a whole could have been more gripping had percussion been used in more than two movements. While I can't say I'm an admirer of Rorem's work, this is the high point of a generally flat-as-Holland disc.

Leonard Bernstein's "Serenade" (1954) is the oldest of the pieces here. It was inspired by Plato's "Symposium" a dialog in which 4-century Athenian cognoscenti gather for a drinking party and debate the nature of love. It is divided into five movements, each named after a character: Phaedrus, Aristophanes, Erixymachus, Agathon, and Socrates. Fairly tonal, the piece is shackled to the unreasonable demands of the romantic tradition and the music can't breathe. It panders to the conservative audiences that Bernstein was happy with. Dreadful.

All in all this is perhaps the least satisfactory of all releases in the "20/21" line, and the least deserving of a place there, since all three of these composers apparently haven't learned anything from modern progress in music.

Fantastic violin music.......2000-12-20

First of all, Deutsche Grammaphon should be congratulated on their 20/21 series of "new music" recordings. So far all of them I've heard have been superb.

On to this specific disc though. The idea is simple: three violin concertos by American composers in the latter half of the 20th century. The previous sentence will frighten many folks, but rest assured those of you out there that fear contemporary classical music. All three of these works (with the exception of a few moments in the Rorem) are all melodic and beautiful works and shouldn't raise a stir even amongst the most hardline musical conservatives.

The Philip Glass violin concerto is without a doubt my favorite of the three pieces (and if you can believe it, actually the most traditionally structured of the three pieces.) Shimmering and intense (but not in an overbearing way) this lush, gorgeous piece foreces reflection and contemplation in the listener. The beautiful second movement with its longing violin part can evoke tears in the listener. The fast paced third movement has a triumphal sense about it and as always, Gidon Kremer's playing is flawless.

The Rorem piece is the quirkiest of the lot. The little sequences range in sound from primal to drunken cartoon music to sounding like a 1950s American sitcom theme song. Given an open mind the piece can be a lot of fun.

Finally, there is the Bernstein "Serenade" (after Plato's "Symposium.") It is a good piece, but ultimately the least memorable of the three (and ironic considering he is the most well known throughout the world.)

Even if this disc were just of Glass performance, it would be worth picking up. Once again, Gidon Kremer's expert handling of these three distinctly different pieces is a treat as well.

Splendid music of our time.......2000-11-22

The Glass Violin Concerto is one of the best examples of his current "mature" style, that combines Minimalist techniques with surging lyrical flow and mastery of orchestral forces much larger that the Glass Ensemble. It's been called, with a fascinaring oxymoron, Maximalist Minimalism. This evolution implies the use of the traditional classical forms, such as symphonies and concertos, and, in this respect, the Violin Concerto is one of Glass's most convincing essays. Actually, it's the piece which "converted" me me to the appreciation of a composer whose early output I often criticized. This concerto astonishingly reminds me , of all composers, of Sibelius. There's something of that Nordic master in the otherworldly lyricism of this concerto, especially in the magnificent, impossible-to-forget slow movement, yet this is distinctly a Glassian sound-world. All his trademarks are present in new, enriched forms: arpeggios, repetitions, that marvelous "far/close" effect in the strings. In this respect the two exhilaratingly motoric outer movements are more typically Glassian, and they encapsulate splendidly the middle one, the hauntingly lyrical heart of the whole piece. Gidon Kremer is a splendid, silvery-toned soloist (I've heard him live recently just in the Sibelius and he was peerless) and also a most intelligent musician : very sensitively he doesn't overplay his part , which was written to go along with the orchestra and not in opposition to it in the traditional , virtuoso way. The Wiener Philharmoniker and Christoph von Dohnanyi (that's what I call luxury casting!) sound, somewhat unexpectedly, totally into the idiom. Actually, I'd say that the warm, aristocratic Vienna sound is very apt for this music. It does not surprise me that, after this premier recording, this beautiful work has enjoyed two further ones., from Telarc and Naxos: I bought the Naxos (mainly for the couplings) and it's very good, but probably Kremer's is destined to remain unmatched for a while. The recorded sound is excellent, if not quite state-of-the-art. If you liked this I recommend you warmly the symphonies (especially nos.2 and 3) and, less obviously, an undeservedly lesser-known masterpiece: the soundtrack for the "Secret Agent" , a suite of marvelously addictive music. The couplings are kind of unlikely, but very interesting: the Rorem concerto is a rhapsodic, varied work that grows on you on repeated listenings. There's kind of a Rorem re-discovery currently going on : I don't think it's unforgettably personal music, but this composer has been unjustly neglected for all the wrong reasons (too tonal, too fluent, too openly gay), and deserves to be heard more. The Bernstein Serenade is very enjoyable, if not exactly a milestone, but those who usually respond to his music more warmly than me will love its Stravinskian wit coupled with Bernsteinian flamboyance. A highly rewarding disc.

3 Talented American Composers and 1 Gifted Violinist.......2000-05-19

"Kremer playing Bernstein (with Bernstein)" are quite enough to persuade me to buy this album (for me). If that is not enough, I promise you, you'll find the 3 greatest American violin concertos of this century played by maestros. Honestly speaking, I overlooked Ned Rorem untill I encounter Susan Graham's album. After listening to Graham's song, I listened this concerto again to find this talented composer. The episode, friendship between Bernstein and Rorem for over forty years and inviting Kremer for this concerto project are moving (you'll find in liner notes.) I love "adagio" from Bernstein's "Serenade" and "Romance without Words"(what a romantic title!) from Rorem's. (This lyricism reminds me Graham's songs.) You'll be one of the gifted if you have this.

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Leopold Kozeluch: Piano Concertos 1, 4 & 5 Manufacturer: Oehms ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000JR0CBQ Release Date: 2007-05-29

Average customer rating: Excellent Value

Tchaikovsky: Complete Concertos Manufacturer: Philips ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies Tchaikovsky: Piano Sonatas Liszt: Piano Works Chopin: The Piano Works Liszt: Complete Symphonic Poems (Box Set) ASIN: B0000C6IW0 Release Date: 2004-03-09

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Excellent Value.......2005-11-23

All of the Tchaikovsky concertos and works for Cello and Orchestra is really good value, especially so as all performences are really excellent. As with Phillips Trio series, this is well worth evey cent. True they are 60's performances but the recordings have all been dressed up in a brand new condition.
Really Good.

Average customer rating: Solid recording Adequate Performance, Primitive Sound This is an excellent recording for the price No storms at sea

Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Totentanz Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Liszt | Liszt, Franz | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000013LV Release Date: 1994-02-15

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1. Piano Concerto No. 1 In E Flat: Allegro maestoso. Tempo giusto
2. Piano Concerto No. 1 In E Flat: Quasi adagio
3. Piano Concerto No. 1 In E Flat: Allegretto vivace
4. Piano Concerto No. 1 In E Flat: Allegro marziale animato
5. Piano Concerto No. 2 In A: Adagio sostenuto assai
6. Piano Concerto No. 2 In A: Allegro moderato
7. Piano Concerto No. 2 In A: Marziale, un poco meno allegro
8. Piano Concerto No. 2 In A: Allegro animato
9. Piano Concerto No. 2 In A: Totentanz

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Solid recording.......2005-04-04

I agree that if anything is to be criticized it is the overall sound quality of the disk. I still find this recording very satisfying and comparable to many of the more famous recordings on the market. The pianist displays restraint and integrity: an admirable attention to detail as far as Liszt's own tempo indications go. The other reviews seem harsh (and considering that one commentator by his own account did not have access to any other recordings, seems ill informed). For a rock solid interpretation at an exceptional price this recording must be highly recommended.

Adequate Performance, Primitive Sound.......2004-12-17

Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is an exciting piece of music based on a simple repeated theme that is almost as “catchy” as the “fate” theme of Beethoven’s Fifth. It was first performed in 1855 with Liszt himself as the soloist and none other than Héctor Berlioz as conductor. Although the last movement has been criticized for being a banal show of virtuosity, the whole concerto is eminently worth knowing and treasuring. Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, first performed two years later, is rather different, the four movements running into each other and there being more lyrical passage-work, including solos for horn and cello, before the “Marziale, un poco meno allegro” closes the work in typically virtuoso fashion. The “Totentanz” (Dance of Death) was written in 1849 and consists basically of a series of rather bizarre variations on the “Dies Irae” sequence from the Gregorian requiem. With these three pieces, the CD contains most of Liszt’s work for piano and orchestra.

As far as the performance goes, I cannot make comparisons, as no other recording of these works is currently available to me, but I found the censure of a fellow Amazonite a little too harsh: there is, indeed, nothing spectacular about these performances, but they seem to me to be adequate. What does impair their enjoyment is the rather primitive stereo sound which takes a lot of getting used to and cannot really convince, even on top-class stereo equipment: the orchestra seems divided in two halves, left and right, while the piano fills the space between. The piano is definitely in the limelight, but occasionally gets drowned by the orchestra, while at other moments it seems to be much louder than the entire collection of instruments. (I wonder how big the orchestra actually was; as usual, Naxos offers no information on this subject.) The solo instruments of the orchestra are obviously given special microphones and jump out at you. I found listening over high-quality headphones to be more satisfactory than in front of loudspeakers, but even with all the “tricks” a stereo fan can use to improve the quality, the whole CD still sounded rather amateurishly recorded.

This is an excellent recording for the price.......2002-02-11

I also own this piece played by the more famous Misha Dichter, Andre Previn conducting, and the Pittsburgh Symphony orchestra.

In all honesty there is nothing to choose between the two of them.

No storms at sea.......2002-02-03

Joseph Banowetz does not succeed in bringing out the power and spice out of these marvelous piano concertos. The Totentanz doesn't do him much justice either. Liszt would be so dissapointed. . . . . .

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Grieg / Schumann: Piano Concertos Edvard Grieg , Robert Schumann , Claudio Arrau , Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Amsterdam , and Christoph Von Dohnanyi Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000E480 Release Date: 1989-10-20

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Grieg, Schumann: Piano Concertos [Australia] Arrau , Dohnanyi , and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Manufacturer: Philips ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004UPTB Release Date: 1999-03-29

Tracks:

1. Grieg - Allegro Molto Moderato
2. 2. Adagio
3. 3. Allegro Moderato E Marcato - Quasi Presto - Andante Maestoso
4. Allegro Affettuoso
5. 2. Intermezzo (Andantino Grazioso)
6. 3. Allegro Vivace

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Dohnányi: Piano Concertos Manufacturer: Hungaroton ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dohnányi, Ernö von | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000309Z Release Date: 1994-07-18

Tracks:

1. I. Adagio Maestoso/Allegro/Adagio
2. II. Andante
3. III. Vivace/Cadenza Con Orch/Vivace/Maestoso/Presto/Piu Presto
4. I. Allegro/Allegro Non Troppo
5. II. Adagio/Poco Rubato
6. III. Allegro Vivace

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These two first-rate concertos reveal very different sides of this neglected master. Brahms praised Dohnányi's early chamber works, and the influence is very obvious in the First Piano Concerto. It's a big, Romantic piece of substantial length with lots of good tunes and heaps of work for the soloist. The Second Concerto, by contrast, is much shorter, but even more tightly constructed. It begins with a very memorable horn theme that sounds strikingly Hungarian, and may well turn out to be the more popular of the two, but we'll never know unless people start listening to them! So if you're a fan of Romantic music for piano and orchestra, then check out this very well played and recorded disc. --David Hurwitz

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Best Loved Piano Concertos Manufacturer: Madacy Special Mkts ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Beethoven | Beethoven, Ludwig van | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Chopin | Chopin, Frédéric | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Franz Joseph Haydn | Haydn, Franz Joseph | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Liszt | Liszt, Franz | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000G6BLOW Release Date: 2006-06-20

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Mendelssohn: Concertos for Piano and Orchestra Manufacturer: Ent. Media Partners ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mendelssohn | Mendelssohn, Felix | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B000002XCU Release Date: 1997-10-24

Tracks:

1. Con No.1 in g, Op.25: Molto Allegro Con Fuoco
2. Con No.1 in g, Op.25: Andante
3. Con No.1 in g, Op.25: Presto
4. Con No.2 in d, Op.40: Allegro Appassionato
5. Con No.2 in d, Op.40: Adagio: Molto Sostenuto
6. Con No.2 in d, Op.40: Finale: Presto Scherzando

Average customer rating: arrau not his best

Grieg, Schumann: Piano Concertos Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Grieg, Edvard | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Robert Schumann | Schumann, Robert | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Arrau, Claudio | ( A ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Deutsche Grammophon: Music | Specialty Stores | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Violin Concerto ASIN: B0001XAS4E Release Date: 2004-04-13

Tracks:

1. Allegro Molto Moderato
2. Adagio
3. Allegro Moderato Molto E Marcato - Quasi Presto - Andante Maestoso
4. Allegro Affettuoso
5. Intermezzo (Andantino Grazioso)
6. Allegro Vivace

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arrau not his best.......2006-03-04

With a few exceptions, Claudio Arrau's concerto recordings are not among his best work; and these recordings, especially of the Grieg concerto, demonstrate why. Arrau often elevated the music he played by finding or even infusing meaning into it, an approach that yielded profound readings of programmatic works such as Albeniz' Iberia, the Debussy Preludes, & Liszt Transcendental Etudes. His ultra-serious approach, however, does not work well with the Grieg concerto which, if played in a relatively straightforward way, is profoundly beautiful by itself. If only the Maestro had trusted Grieg a little bit more & let him speak for himself. The result is often ponderous & sectionalized where the music should flow naturally.

The Schumann concerto fares better, yet by magnifying the poetic element in the score the music becomes gentler than it should be. Perhaps one may attribute this to the more relaxed (or less inspiring) atmosphere of the recording studio, for in the same year this Philips disc was made (1963) Arrau played an electrifying Schumann concerto with the London Philharmonic in front of a live audience that was filmed for TV & is now available on a BBC dvd. What a difference! There is also an outstanding Arrau recording of the Schumann concerto with the NY Philharmonic dating from 1951 available on Aura (cd 252) in excellent mono sound. This disc also captures the pianist in front of an audience where he played in a much more spontaneous way. All of the Arrau poetry is there, but the pace of the music is much tighter, the orchestra under Victor De Sabata provides better support & the virtuoso aspects of the score are played with incredible authority, variety & drive. It's a thrilling performance from the same classic period that produced Arrau's great Liszt concerto recordings: the monumental studio version of the First concerto with Ormandy, laid down in one take; & the equally monumental A flat major concerto recorded live with the NY Philharmonic under Guido Cantelli.

One final note: both the Grieg & Schumann concertos differ little from the mono versions Arrau made a few years before with Alceo Galliera; however, the Phillips stereo recording captures Arrau's ravishing tone in a way that few others do.

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