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Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1/Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2 : RCA
What a story there is behind this recording! When Van Cliburn won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow at the height of the Cold War with his playing of this concerto, it created an international sensation. The recording followed immediately thereafter, and Cliburn was launched on an international career of unprecedented celebrity for a classical musician. Perhaps the attention was too much, too soon, given his subsequent burn-out and retirement from public life. Fortunately, we have these unique recordings to document what was, by all accounts, a genuine phenomenon. This is the disc "heard 'round the world." --David Hurwitz - $10.75
The World's Favorite Piano Music
Dvorák: Cello Concerto; Tchaikovsky / Karajan, Rostropovich,
The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection : The 350 Essential Works
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 1-5
Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words
Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies; 7 Overtures
Mendelssohn: Piano Trios Op. 49 & Op. 66
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor; Bruch: Violin Concerto #1; Itzhak Perlman
Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos : Philips
Recorded live in 1983, Alfred Brendel's third go-round with these works drastically improves on his previous Beethoven concerto cycles. He finds a calmer, more direct route to the Emperor Concerto, although the Fourth's first movement is still pock-marked with finicky phrase adjustments that pull focus from the music's poetic arcs. Levine provides sympathetic and alert support, yet is much more than a mere deferential accompanist. --Jed Distler - $22.69
Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos, Vol. 1
Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos, Vol. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies - Arturo Toscanini / NBC Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: The Piano Concertos : Decca
Each of these performances has its own profile. The orchestra plays incisively in the First Concerto, but Ashkenazy's plush lyricism doesn't make a good match either with the orchestra or with the music, and he makes one weird ritard in the first movement. The Second Concerto is uneventful, rather bland and pleasant. The Third Concerto seems to be the best performance of the lot, with dramatic playing by soloist and orchestra, but it's sabotaged by blurry recorded sound, the only serious problem with sound quality in the entire set. The Fourth Concerto is enlivened, at least intellectually, by Solti's approach, constantly revealing interesting unfamiliar details in the orchestral score. Ashkenazy's detachment makes this a frosty but fascinating experience. The "Emperor" is a good routine performance, nothing special. The Bagatelles aren't much of a bonus, since they're rather dully played. (Why not the "Choral" Fantasy?) There's nothing actively bad about this set, and it's reasonably priced. But Beethoven deserves better, and gets it from many performers, including the fascinating Uchida-Sanderling collaborations. --Leslie Gerber - $21.86
Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos, Vol. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies - Arturo Toscanini / NBC Symphony Orchestra
Favourite Piano Concertos, Vol.1
Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos, Vol. 1
Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos, Vol. 2
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 1-5
Jean-Yves Thibaudet ~ Warsaw Concerto ~ romantic piano classics from the silver screen
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 1-5 : Decca
There is a lot of really enjoyable music here. I remember organizing a performance of the Fifth Piano Concerto (subtitled "The Egyptian") when I was repertoire committee chairman for a local community orchestra. We found it not only very playable for all of us amateurs in the orchestra, but it simply blew the audience away. It's a real find. Both the Second and Fourth concertos have been popular favorites for more than a century, but they seemed to have vanished sight in the past couple of decades. It was our loss, but no more. And the Fifth Piano Concerto, even when played by amateurs, can blow an audience away. At two discs for the price of one, these fine performances offer listeners a great chance to know this charming and vivacious music at little or no risk at all. So why hesitate? --David Hurwitz - $9.56
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos 1, 2 & 3 - Prokofiev: Piano Concerto 5 - Bartok: Piano Concerto 2 - Emil Gilels, Sviatoslav Richter, Lorin Maazel : EMI Classics
- $8.86
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Op35; Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Op77
Liszt: The Two Piano Concertos; The Piano Sonata
Brahms: Concertos for Piano No. 1 & 2, Fantasia Op. 116
Grieg, Chopin & Saint Saens Piano Concertos / Previn, Rubinstein, London Symphony Orchestra : Deutsche Grammophon
- $18.11
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