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Schumann, Grieg: Piano Concertos / Perahia, Davis


Release Date: 10/25/1990 
Label:  Cbs Masterworks Catalog #: 44899   Spars Code: DDD 
Composer:  Robert Schumann,  Edvard Grieg
Performer:  Murray Perahia
Conductor:  Sir Colin Davis
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
Length: 1 Hours 0 Mins. 

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Murray Perahia's 1987 Schumann and Grieg concertos with Colin Davis remain the most recommendable digitally recorded pairing of these war-horses, and they bloom even more via Sony's Expanded Edition remastering. I'd also add that this release constitutes the finest of Davis' three recorded Schumann/Grieg couplings (the others are with Arrau/Boston Symphony and Kovacevich/BBC Symphony). Although Perahia remade the Schumann seven years later with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic, I lean toward the earlier recording. Davis' accompaniments provide more solid rhythmic underpinning in the outer movements, with fuller-bodied string tone and more carefully sculpted woodwind chording. By contrast, Abbado favors a more blended, rounder Read more sonority. Certain details in the solo piano part emerge with greater transparency and refinement under Abaddo, such as the Finale's cross-rhythmic filigree and the voice leading in the first-movement cadenza. Yet Perahia's added thrust and greater attention to bass lines under Davis, together with more impetuous conversational give and take between soloist and orchestra in the Intermezzo clinch my recommendation.

Poetry and precision triumphantly fuse in the Grieg Concerto, where Perahia's fabulous technique and ravishing tone make this overplayed work sound quite invigorating. I particularly admire the effortlessly effected tempo relationships between sections, plus the welcome melodic emphasis with which he shapes the Finale's flashy runs and the first-movement cadenza's bass rumbles.

--Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com
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Works on This Recording

1. Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54 by Robert Schumann
Performer:  Murray Perahia (Piano)
Conductor:  Sir Colin Davis
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1841-1845; Germany 
2. Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 16 by Edvard Grieg
Performer:  Murray Perahia (Piano)
Conductor:  Sir Colin Davis
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1868/1907; Norway 

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 I've been looking for this for a while.... February 21, 2013 By Lina Shemet (Snohomish, WA) See All My Reviews "I've been looking for this CD for a while now, and I am so glad that I found it at Arkivmusic.com. This Cd is hard to find. It has some of the loveliest pieces that Schuman and Grieg had ever composed. Sir Colin Davis is amazing. Davis conducts these songs exactly as they were intended, with such passion and perfection. Of course, Perahia is an amazing pianist---one of the best!" Report Abuse
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