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4 days ago · Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 15 in B-Flat Major, K. 450 - III. AllegroKarl Münchinger (conductor), Wilhelm Kempff (pianist), Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, 1953....
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3 days ago · Early on in the 20th century, Chopin’s works were coming under a bit of fire. One critic even said of the Piano Concerto No. 1 that it was “too much in the nature of a technical study.” Maybe there was something objective to this, though: at the time he composed the First Concerto, Chopin was just as much, probably even more so, known as a virtuoso pianist than he was a composer. It’s ...
5 hours ago · In March 1898, Theodore Thomas led the Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of Saint-Saëns' Fifth Piano Concerto in Carnegie Hall, and eight years later, the composer appeared as soloist with the ensemble in Orchestra Hall.
1 day ago · Volume 6 of Oleg Marshev’s survey of Emil von Sauer’s keyboard music includes a first recording of the Second Piano Concerto, already a far cry from the the First Concerto’s beguiling if less ambitious world. Getting off to an exotic start (moderato lamentoso), the pianist quickly launches into a magisterial utterance worthy of Brahms. Wildly disparate elements are ingeniously knitted ...
3 days ago · The program was well-chosen and strong; Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, with Mitsuko Uchida, and after intermission the New York premiere of Valerie Coleman’s Concerto for Orchestra and Debussy’s La Mer. Even one-quarter into the 21st century, concerts of music that lies solely within the era of common historical and cultural memory are both too infrequent and immensely welcome. This one ...
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5 days ago · As with the last concerto release documenting Balsam on Bridge 9196 (Mozart, Beethoven, Hummel, C.P.E. Bach – see review) – we find the pianist to be a soloist of discretion, sensitivity, dynamism and refinement. He is quoted as having said that his Mozart sees no “pronounced, startling contrast between a full piano and a relaxed, full ...
