Dvorak: Piano Concerto & The Golden Spinning Wheel

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Straight to the top of the list for this one! Even on its best showings – Richter and Carlos Kleiber, Firkušný under Somogyi – Dvorák's Piano Concerto has never quite managed to cast off its... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 13th Feb 2006
Catalogue No: 8573876302
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 67 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

January 2004

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Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor Op.33 : I Allegro agitato

Work length18:24

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Excerpt, Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33

Work length20:57

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Nikolaus Harnoncourt

II Andante sostenuto

Track length9:34

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III Finale - Allegro con fuoco

Track length11:23

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Dvořák: The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op. 109

Work length28:24

Album only

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Nikolaus Harnoncourt

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2010

Straight to the top of the list for this one! Even on its best showings – Richter and Carlos Kleiber, Firkušný under Somogyi – Dvorák's Piano Concerto has never quite managed to cast off its Cinderella rags. With this recording, the ball beckons, and there's no time limit. Granted, Brahms is still securely in the background and the concerto is hardly as pianistic as the best of its concerto-peers but the beauty of this performance is its utter naturalness, Pierre-Laurent Aimard easing around the solo part as if he's been playing it all his life, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt's sympathy for the work is obvious from the start. Together they make the most of the score's drama, giving the lie to Dvorák's supposedly ineffective piano writing. Albrecht Gaud's excellent booklet note credits the longprevalent revision by Vilém Kurz as giving the part 'not only a more effective form' but also the virtue of extra clarity. Yet it appears that the original is used here and redeemed. Richter's clarity and Firkušný's knowing accent remain attractive, but Aimard's combination of intelligence and informality win the day. A magnificent CD.

Dvorak: Piano Concerto & The Golden Spinning Wheel

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