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I've been monitoring all the used CD sites for the past six months. Some day someone will slip up and offer that set at the wrong price, and I'm ready to pounce.
I've been monitoring all the used CD sites for the past six months. Some day someone will slip up and offer that set at the wrong price, and I'm ready to pounce.
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Stefan Vladar with the Wiener Kammer Orchestra on Capriccio
The first disc from a fine 4 CD set of Beethoven Concertos.
I'm a big fan of the Piano Concert No. 1 (which was composed after the Piano Concerto No. 2). Such joyous music with a great sense of fun. The second concerto rather pales in comparison, and I believe Beethoven didn't think one of his best.
I think Enthusiast posted this record a while back. Unbelievably awesome. It is amazing to me how clearly Holliger establishes relations with the Machaut works (which are absolutely beautiful), and then takes them even further, what is hinted in Machaut is exploited by Holliger, a great example of that are the Hoquetus Davids and the Triple Hoquet. Fantastic!
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 2 & 5 'Emperor' Martin Helmchen with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Andrew Manze on Alpha
Nice accounts of these works.
Ive already listened to the second piano concerto earlier in the evening and suggested even Beethoven didn't think it one his best works. I'm sure he felt the Emperor was one of his best, but strangely I have always had reservations with it, as I much prefer the 4th Piano Concerto.
Prokofiev: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 58 (1938); Symphony-Concerto in E minor, for cello and orchestra, Op. 125 (1952) Alban Gerhardt, Andrew Litton & Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Steven Stucky: Rhapsodies, Concerto for Orchestra
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose
Both of these are excellent pieces, but really Stucky's Concerto for Orchestra is especially a triumph. BMOP and Gil Rose are as sensational as always.
William Schuman: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Paul Zukofsky
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
I've always thought this was a really cool concerto from my earliest acquaintance, and I still do.
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