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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3
Olli Mustonen (piano and conductor) Tapiola Sinfonietta Olli Mustonen continues his acclaimed cycle of Beethoven
Piano Concertos. In this second volume, the Finnish pianist and
conductor turns his talent to the Third Piano Concerto and the
Piano Concerto which Beethoven arranged himself from the
Violin Concerto of 1806.While this is seldom played in
concert, with only a handful of recordings available in the catalogue, Mustonen regularly puts it in his
programmes and it has become one of his signature pieces.As on the previous disc, Mustonen performs with
the Tapiola Sinfonietta, whith whom he has maintained close artistic ties for years, accompanying this
Beethoven project with acclaimed tour performances in various European countries. “Mustonen plays Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 3 with a spiky, red-hot touch, fiery with poetic anger, running silky trills straight into dazzling scales and letting fly with accents in unaccustomed places like an orator emphasising prepositions for rhetorical effect. It is a thrilling listen.” The Times, 5th July 2008 **** “A sustained singing line is evidently anathema to the maverick Finn. Instead he is forever nudging and tweaking the music, shading away almost inaudibly at cadences, and adding jabbing accents where you least expect - or want - them (Beethoven's score is already lavishly peppered with sforzandi).
Mustonen's keyboard mastery is irrefutable, both in the C minor Concerto and in Beethoven's opportunistic keyboard arrangement of his Violin Concerto, with its almost comically portentous piano-and-timpani cadenza. Despite moments of illumination, though, my reactions to these performances veered between bafflement and exasperation.” The Telegraph, 19th July 2008 “Though Mustonen plays it with enthusiasm, [the Concerto in D Major, originally for violin) arouses mixed feelings. The writing only becomes genuinely pianistic in the cadenzas - they are phenomenal - and in the newly composed transition from slow movement to finale. Mustonen's performance of the Third Concerto, however, is one of the finest on disc: big-hearted and free from the Haydnesque prissiness that some interpreters bring to the work. The Tapiola Sinfonietta's playing is sensational, too.” The Guardian, 8th August 2008 **** | 
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Arthur Schoonderwoerd (conductor & fortepiano) Cristofori Ensemble Alpha continues the musical tour of XIXth century piano music on ancient
instruments with Arthur Schoonderwoerd's recordings of Beethoven's
concerti. Going firmly against the prevailing tide,Arthur Schoonderwoerd
offers us colours, accents and tempi that cannot but deeply stir our perceptions of this music, so often
biased by huge orchestras or by powerful modern pianos.The first volume [alpha096] disturbed common
wisdom - a good thing - and gave tremendous pleasure to music lovers who discovered unknown riches in a
work they thought they knew. "Beware, this is a radical experience!" Le Monde de la Musique |
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Artur Balsam (piano) Winterthur Symphony Orchestra 2 CDs for price of 1 Tully Potter writes that "this superb pianist, born in Warsaw in 1906, became Nathan Milstein's accompanist in 1938 and followed the violinist to America two years later, in due course becoming recognized as a soloist." | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Boris Berezovsky (piano) Swedish Chamber Orchestra Örebro, Thomas Dausgaard | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Jeno Jando (piano), Dong-Suk Kang (violin), Maria Kliegel (cello) Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia, Bela Drahos "The performance of the work is magical [Concerto]...The soloists in the Triple Concerto are brilliant and subtle, as the music dictates"
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Pietro Spada (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra, London Voices, Sir Alexander Gibson | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Albéniz: | Spanish Rhapsody, Op. 70 Piano Concerto No. 1 (Concerto fantastico), Op. 78 | Beethoven: | Piano Concerto in D major, arranged by the composer after the Violin Concerto, Op. 61a Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in B flat major, Wo06 | Czerny: | Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 214 Grand Variations Op. 73 for piano & string quartet | Guarnieri, C: | Danca Brasileira | Mignone: | Serenata Humoristica | Ries: | Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, Op. 55 | Stamitz, C: | Piano Concerto in F major | Tavares: | Concerto in Brazilian Forms, No. 2, Op. 105 | Villa-Lobos: | Piano Concerto No. 5 Live recording Garibaldi foi a Missa Danca do Indio Branco Bachianas Brasileiras No. 3 for piano and orchestra | Vogler: | Variations on “Marlborough, s’en va-t-en guerre” (1791) |
Felicja Blumental (piano) Wüttemberg Chamber Orchestra, Salzburg Chamber Orchestra, Filharmonica Triestina, Torino Symphony Orchestra, Brno Philharmonic, Prague Symphony Orchestra & Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Jörg Faerber, Theodore Guschlbauer, Luigi Toffolo, Alberto Zedda, Jiri Waldhens & Helmut Froschauer “The Concerto in Brazilian Forms by Hekel Tavares ..is a colourful, melodic and derivative composition that will please most
listeners with a sweet tooth…..Blumental sparkles”. American Record Guide | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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