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| Expanded Edition - Grieg, Schumann, Etc / Perahia, Et Al | |||||
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Release Date: 07/27/2004 Label: Sony Classical Masterworks Catalog #: 92736 Spars Code: n/a Composer: Robert Schumann, Edvard Grieg, Felix Mendelssohn Performer: Murray Perahia Conductor: Sir Colin Davis, Sir Neville Marriner Orchestra/Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Number of Discs: 1 |
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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 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.
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| Works on This Recording | Back to Top | ||||
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Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54 by Robert Schumann | ||||
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Performer:
Murray Perahia (Piano)
Conductor: Sir Colin Davis Orchestra/Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1841-1845; Germany |
Venue: Philharmonie Gasteig, Munich, Germany Length: 30 Minutes 14 Secs. |
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| Notes: Philharmonie Gasteig, Munich, Germany (01/14/1987 - 01/17/1987) | |||||
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Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 16 by Edvard Grieg | ||||
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Performer:
Murray Perahia (Piano)
Conductor: Sir Colin Davis Orchestra/Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1868/1907; Norway |
Venue: Philharmonie Gasteig, Munich, Germany Length: 28 Minutes 39 Secs. |
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| Notes: Philharmonie Gasteig, Munich, Germany (01/13/1987 - 01/16/1987) | |||||
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Concerto for Piano no 2 in D minor, Op. 40: Finale "Presto scherzando" by Felix Mendelssohn | ||||
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Performer:
Murray Perahia (Piano)
Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Period: Romantic Written: 1837; Germany |
Venue: CBS Studios, London, England Length: 6 Minutes 47 Secs. |
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| Notes: CBS Studios, London, England (08/23/1974 - 08/24/1974) | |||||
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