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Music : Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto/Violin Concerto
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Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto/Violin Concerto from: Teldec List Price: $16.99 CD-Charts Price: $14.99 You Save: $2.00 (12%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0745099069629 Label: Teldec Manufacturer: Teldec Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Teldec Release Date: November 01, 1994 Studio: Teldec Sales Rank: 45667 MPN: 90696 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - Great Performances of Schuman's Best Known & Little Known Concerti from Argerich, Kremer, Harnoncourt & COEWithout question the most riveting recording I have heard of the Schumann piano concerto is this critically acclaimed version with Martha Argerich as soloist which is from a live performance recorded successfully by Teldec as if it was a studio recording. Argerich, Harnoncourt and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe have taken a rather vivid, fresh take on this venerable warhourse, truly clearing some of the cobwebs in performance practice, by taking a more historically-informed approach. And yet it is an approach which doesn't forsake Argerich's intense, often quite dramatic, playing for which she has become well known. I disagree with a different customer reviewer who observed that this performance doesn't quite yield a "conversation between piano ... Read More: Rating: - Schumann's violin concerto: a most tragic piece of music.This is an excellent recording. The orchestra plays beautifully, with both a Romantic richness and a Classical clarity that Schumann's scores require. The tempi Argerich and Kremer choose are perfectly convincing and although the slowness of the Violin Concerto's third movement is a bit disconcerting at first, it actually works: a slow, stately and noble polonaise, ornamented with highly expressive violin writing (arpeggiation, roulades, arabesques, trills, etc.) that are, as Kremer states, certainly playable at Schumann's stated tempo. Here are two concerti by one of music's most underrated and misundertood composers. The Piano Concerto is justly famous, one of the truly great works in the genre not for its virtuosity (there is none), ... Read More: Rating: - Is Kremer's first recording of the Schumann concerto better?The Schumann violin concerto clearly is underappreciated, and it is great that Kremer did a second recording. I may be biased by the fact that I first heard this wonderful piece of music in the first Kremer recording (with Riccardo Muti conducting). While I did feel that some passages in this earlier recording, especially in the final movement, were hurried, I feel that the newer (this) recording goes to the other extreme and that sometimes in the corner movements, the music is too static - I wonder if some tempi should be just in between. But anyway: If you like serious romantic music, non-virtuoso but rich in substance (like e.g. the first Brahms piano concerto) but don't know this Violin concerto, buy either one recording (or maybe both, the other ... Read More: Rating: - An excellent coupling of an old warhorse and a little-known gemI always enjoy Nikolaus Harnoncourt's take on things. By going back to the original scores and following the dictates of the composer, he sometimes ignores performance tradition but captures nuances and intentions that have been lost. Such is the case here, especially with the violin concerto, where he and Gidon Kremer take the third movement at a slow pace -- a stately polonaise -- as the composer intended. (The accompanying booklet spells out Schumann's views quite clearly.) Not everyone likes this approach, but I do: the result is an elegant, moving and even playful work. For those who have not heard the concerto, the first movement epecially is a gem, one of those why-I-like-Schumann revelations brimming with musical ideas in the composer's unique personal ... Read More: Rating: - unknown but unbelievableWhat an unexpected joy it was to discover this relatively unknown violin concerto. As a concert pianist I purchased this disc in order to hear Argerich's approach to the piano concerto (one of my favorites). It was the violin concerto, however, which has struck me to the heart. What an unbelievably beautiful work. The entire developoment section of the opening movement must be amongst the most wonderfully crafted music ever penned - achingly tender and quietly impassioned. The Langsam movement is also a profoundly beautiful utterance. Throughout Kremer's playing is insightful and captures the essence of the work. The Chamber Orchestra of Europe are a wonderful group and this CD provides some of the most beautiful orchestral sonorities I have encountered ... Read More: |
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