Nelson Freire: Radio Days

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What is most notable about this collection is the way Freire finds exactly the right idiom for each composer: a perfumed suggestion in the theatre for Tchaikovsky's First, elfin charm for the... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Sep 2014
Catalogue No: 4786772
Label: Decca
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

Work length37:18

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Nelson Freire (piano)
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Heinz Wallberg
Recorded: 1968-03-01
Recording Venue: Schloss, Kiel

1. Allegro maestoso

Track length18:38

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2. Romance (Larghetto)

Track length9:09

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3. Rondo (Vivace)

Track length9:31

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Schumann: Concert Introduction & Allegro in D Minor, Op. 134

Work length12:50

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Nelson Freire (piano)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Reinhard Peters
Recorded: 1971-09-20
Recording Venue: Herkulessaal, Munich

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23

Work length32:35

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Nelson Freire (piano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF
Kurt Masur
Recorded: 1969-02-18
Recording Venue: ORTF-Studio, Paris

1. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso - Allegro con spirito

Track length18:44

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2. Andantino semplice

Track length7:02

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3. Allegro con fuoco

Track length6:49

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Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major, Op. 10

Work length14:33

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Nelson Freire (piano)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Yuri Ahronovitch
Recorded: 1974-10-02
Recording Venue: Herkulessaal, Munich

1. Allegro brioso

Track length6:37

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2. Andante assai

Track length3:43

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3. Allegro scherzando

Track length4:13

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Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S125

Work length21:35

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Nelson Freire (piano)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Eleazar de Carvalho
Recorded: 1979-12-06
Recording Venue: Herkulessaal, Munich

1. Adagio sostenuto assai - Allegro agitato assai

Track length7:24

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2. Allegro moderato

Track length5:23

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3. Allegro moderato

Track length6:53

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4. Allegro animato

Track length1:55

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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

Work length39:59

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Nelson Freire (piano)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
David Zinman
Recorded: 1979-11-24
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

1. Allegro ma non tanto

Track length15:34

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2. Intermezzo (Adagio)

Track length10:35

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3. Finale (Alla breve)

Track length13:50

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To celebrate Nelson Freire’s 70th Birthday (18th October), this special 2CD collection presents concerto repertoire that is not currently in Nelson’s Decca catalogue. This collection brings these very good radio broadcasts together for the first time on CD.

Decca has mined the archives of radio stations in France, Germany and the Netherlands to create a double-album of recordings made at the beginning of his career in Europe during Freire’s twenties and early thirties: the years when he was described by the press as a “young lion of the keyboard”.

This collection brings these outstanding remastered radio broadcasts together for the first time internationally on any format.

We hear performances of key pillars of piano concerto repertoire with leading conductors such as Masur and Zinman.

This album will be simultaneously released with Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 & Sonata Op.111 in September, followed by a Chopin album including Piano Concerto No.2 and other solo gems in January 2015.

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January 2015

What is most notable about this collection is the way Freire finds exactly the right idiom for each composer: a perfumed suggestion in the theatre for Tchaikovsky's First, elfin charm for the young Prokofiev and a quintessentially Russian nostalgia for Rachmaninov.

November 2014

These recordings of live broadcasts dating from 1968-79 tell us in no uncertain terms of Nelson Freire's immaculate overall command, allied to a liberation granted to only the finest pianists...These are not the sort of performances to prompt vivid metaphors. Yet there are several surprises from a pianist who has often kept emotions at arm's length.

3rd September 2014

There's not a dud among them. Each bar is full of the vitality that Freire brings to everything he plays, though the recorded orchestral sound is a bit dry and bright – and the orchestras aren't always immaculate. But Freire's fabulously clean phrasing and pearly tone are never compromised, and each concerto is special in one way or another.

5th September 2014

Freire excels...on his 1979 account of Liszt No 2, with Bavarian Radio forces conducted by Eleazar de Carvalho, who apparently sometimes marked beats by thumping his chest as if he were Tarzan. Listening to this blistering recording, I am not at all surprised.

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