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Both conductor and soloist take a lyrical approach to this Concerto. Paavo Järvi's tapering of the opening melodic gesture modifies its usually brusque, implacable drama, and Nicholas Angelich's... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 17th Mar 2008
Catalogue No: 5189982
Label: Erato
Length: 74 minutes

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15

Work length51:33

Album only

Nicholas Angelich (piano)
hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt
Paavo Järvi
Recorded: 2007-02-09
Recording Venue: 5-9 Feb 2007, Hessische Rundfunk, Frankfurt

I. Maestoso

Track length23:48

Album only

II. Adagio

Track length14:54

Album only

III. Rondo (Allegro non troppo)

Track length12:51

Album only

Excerpt, Brahms: Hungarian Dances

Work length22:41

$11.70

$15.30

Nicholas Angelich (piano), Frank Braley (piano)
Recorded: 2007-10-17
Recording Venue: 17 Oct 2007 Paris, Paroisse Notre-Dame du Liban

No.1 in G Minor

Track length2:56

$1.30

$1.70

No.2 in D Minor

Track length2:40

$1.30

$1.70

No.3 in F Major

Track length2:02

$1.30

$1.70

No.4 in F Minor

Track length3:54

$1.30

$1.70

No.5 in F Sharp Minor

Track length1:58

$1.30

$1.70

No.7 in A Major

Track length1:32

$1.30

$1.70

No.11 in A Minor

Track length2:57

$1.30

$1.70

No.14 in D Minor

Track length1:44

$1.30

$1.70

No.17 in F Sharp Minor

Track length2:58

$1.30

$1.70

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May 2008

Both conductor and soloist take a lyrical approach to this Concerto. Paavo Järvi's tapering of the opening melodic gesture modifies its usually brusque, implacable drama, and Nicholas Angelich's expansive ruminations in the second theme, although expressive and dignified, borders on the languid.

June 2008

A delight to encounter precise, hand-in-glove ensemble-playing that manages not to sound pre-planned.

13th April 2008

Angelich's solo Brahms scarcely prepared us for the conviction and rapt intensity in this showpiece. With French pianist Frank Braley, Angelich also brings infectious zest to nine of the 21 Hungarian Dances for four hands, including the celebrated No 5 in F sharp minor.

10th May 2008

Throughout a work once dubbed "a symphony with piano obbligato", the Frankfurt orchestra play superbly for Paavo Järvi, the strings burnished and deep-toned, the woodwind gracious agents of tenderness and consolation.
Though Nicholas Angelich commands ample Brahmsian heft, his playing tends to emphasise the music's lyrical pathos, rather than its turbulent heroism. Momentum can suffer in the first movement, especially in Angelich's ultra-dreamy treatment of the assuaging chorale-like theme. But he distils a mystical inwardness in the adagio - a wordless requiem for Schumann - and balances muscular stoicism with luminous delicacy, even a touch of playfulness, in the finale.

Brahms - Piano Concerto No.1

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