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“Davis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra provide superbly incisive support for Kovacevich who delivers musically insightful accounts of the solo parts.” BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012 **** | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Beethoven & Kuhlau: Piano Concertos
Marianna Shirinyan (piano) Copenhagen Phil Marianna Shirinyan, an Armenian pianist resident in Denmark, is one of this generation’s leading pianists, having won no less than five prizes at the ARD International Music Competition in 2006, and numerous prizes since then. This brand new CD is the first in a series of Beethoven recordings being made by the ultra-exciting Copenhagen Phil, an orchestra that has recently displayed its commitment to bringing classical music to everyone with its zany and hugely enjoyable “flash mob” appearances in Copenhagen’s Central Station and Metro. Both flash mob videos have received more than three and a half million views on You Tube. The orchestra uses historical brass instruments and timpani, less vibrato in the strings, and bases its interpretation on Beethoven’s original metronome markings. “Kuhlau's infatuation with Beethoven's C major Concerto may be self-evident, but individual touches, emphasised by feisty playing from both soloist and orchestra, suggest a distinctive personality.” BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012 **** “[Shirinyan] delivers fine performances and receives great support from the Copenhagen...This disc is a clever coupling and despite the obvious comparisons is worth having for at least that reason.” MusicWeb International, December 2012 “Shirinyan isn't blessed with the most beautiful of instruments and some of the duetting with the wind could be more characterful but she makes a strong case for [the Kuhlau]...[in the Beethoven] Shirinyan's energy and the clarity of her fingerwork are infectious.” Gramophone Magazine, January 2013 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Beethoven Journey: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Over the next four seasons, the celebrated Norwegian pianist and newly-signed exclusive Sony Classical artist Leif Ove Andsnes will devote the majority of his performing and recording activities to the music of Beethoven. ‘The Beethoven Journey’ is a collaboration with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, one of the world´s most acclaimed touring orchestras, on the move approximately 200 days each year. The 45 core members of the MCO come from 20 different countries and live all over Europe. The journey began with the live recording of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 at Prague Spring Festival in the historic Rudolfinum building, where Andsnes is not only playing the piano but also directing the orchestra. Although Andsnes has an extensive discography ‘The Beethoven Journey’ is his first Beethoven recording. “What these performances also have is a quality that is not always quite so obvious when he is alone on the concert platform – a real sense of enjoyment in playing, and the business of communicating that enjoyment to an audience...The incidental beauties – the articulacy of Andsnes's left hand is a marvel in itself, for instance – are all part of that, too.” The Guardian, 4th October 2012 **** “It's an all-round winner of a disc, with superlative playing from both soloist and orchestra, and a recorded sound to match. Andsnes's view of the music is fairly traditional...[his] pedalling is a shade cautious, but he plays the piece so beautifully that there are no grounds for complaint...Overall, this looks set to be a highly enjoyable journey.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2012 ***** “there's a palpable sense of discovery, of living the music...You know you're in remarkable musical company before the piano has sounded a note...Of course, this isn't just down to the players: it's Andsnes's conception right from the start...What's also very striking is that these performances are not simply about elan and energy: they have a sense of gravitas, too, of rightness, that you find in the greatest Beethoven interpreters.” Gramophone Magazine, November 2012 “has he gone forward or backward to Beethoven? The answer provided by these superb performances is: both. He has all of the power that Beethoven's writing often requires, yet his playing is also elegant and sometimes even understated...Let the journey continue!” International Record Review, December 2012 “some of the best Beethoven playing you will ever hear...clearly, this is music that Andsnes has been living with for many years – and it now emerges with an impressive maturity...The crisp, well-sprung playing in the introductions to both concertos could easily be mistaken for that of a period-instrument orchestra” bbc.co.uk, 4th December 2012  BBC Music Magazine
Orchestral Choice - December 2012 |
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| |  | Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Britain's renowned Leeds International Piano Competition brought German pianist Lars Vogt his breakthrough – and the attention of conductor Simon Rattle. One of the fruits that their subsequent collaboration bore is this recording full of excitement, subtlety and brilliant virtuosity. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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After decades of work on Beethoven’s original scores, the Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder offers a definitive interpretation of all Beethoven’s piano concertos in this series of live recordings of his ecstatically acclaimed performances in the Musikverein Vienna from May 2011. Buchbinder conducts the Vienna Philharmonic from the keyboard and achieves a rare degree of tension and chamber-like concentration. Rudolf Buchbinder is firmly established as one of the most important pianists on the international scene, he is a regular guest of renowned orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, London Philharmonic, National Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also has over 100 recordings to his credit. In December 2011 Rudolf Buchbinder celebrated his 65th birthday. Bonus: 30 minutes Documentary about Rudolf Buchbinder, plus interview with Joachim Kaiser. Running Time Total: 216 minutes Piano Concertos: 186 min. Bonus: 30 min. DTS-HD MA 5.0, PCM Stereo “a man who plays Beethoven with the innocent self-assurance of the virtuoso...He is happiest when his hands are full: in the finales, for instance, where the forthrightness and his technical address are admirable and he can cook iup a storm or two.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2012 “these performances are deeply felt and as the talk on the disc confirms, very thoroughly researched by Buchbinder who compares many different editions of the works he is performing.” MusicWeb International, May 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Sviatoslav Richter’s Boston Debutfirst release of the complete concert from the original broadcast tapes
Munch met and heard Richter in 1958 when the Boston Symphony Orchestra toured Russia. He was so impressed that he invited him to appear with the BSO. Richter’s Boston debut two years later, is presented here from the original stereo tapes for the first time. “The result took your breath away” Boston Globe “Richter and his accompanists are elegant and airy as well as noble, with the pianist offering a curtailed version of the longest cadenza option. The slow movement has a rapt, meditative quality that seems more compelling than ever experienced live...Richter retains his poise in the finale, the orchestral contribution turning beefier though still adequately pointed...Richter mavens will be gratified by the clear and truthful mono recording.” International Record Review, January 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
These archive recordings are extremely rare and have never been issued before. The live performances from London’s Royal Festival Hall in 1967 captures Gilels at his best, playing in front of an audience away from the confines of the studio. His earlier recordings were all made in the studio and date back to 1954 and 1957 (both no longer available) as well as a complete set with Szell in 1968 where the recorded sound came under some criticism. William Mann in the Times wrote after the concert of Concerto No.3, “For all his truly Beethovenian brio in the first movement, Gilels never allowed this to get the better of the clarity and firmness of his phraseology, indeed his opening was like chiselled stone. There was immense dignity in the Largo and the Rondo, taken at what I thought to be exactly the right speed, came across with remarkable vivacity”. Every critic praised Boult’s accompaniments of both concertos. Excellent stereo sound remastered by Paul Baily. “unshowy, massively intelligent accounts...whose structures are architecturally drawn and finely delineated, with wonderful tone-quality in the slow movements. More physical, less spiritual than Rubinstein Gilels nevertheless compels admiration by the total honesty and conviction of his playing. Adrian Boult's contribution is, as usual, finely articulated and focused.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2011 **** “here, the klavier-tiger storms of Gilels's first appearances in the West...are resolved in playing of a transparency, elegance and calm that were no less characteristic of his later career...for unalloyed dignity and composure, these performances are hard to equal. Sir Adrian Boult's gentlemanly, unobtrusive beat is a further asset in these finely transferred recordings.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2011 “his playing is so vivid, so lyrical, so natural in its mastery...Every run and trill and arpeggio makes beautiful, effortless music. Once past a slightly tentative start to No 1, Boult and the New Philharmonia are crisp, warm-hearted accompanists. These are performances to relish.” Sunday Times, 13th March 2011 **** | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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CD Review said of Mari Kodama’s recent recording of Beethoven Sonatas on PentaTone, “Some pianists seem to have been born to play Beethoven." | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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