Alfred Brendel: Live in Vienna
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Label: Decca
Cat No: 4833288
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 9th March 2018
Contents
Artists
Alfred Brendel (piano)Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor
Simon RattleWorks
Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, op.24Piano Concerto in A minor, op.54
Artists
Alfred Brendel (piano)Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor
Simon RattleAbout
The Schumann Piano Concerto requires virtually everything a pianist should have to offer: poetry, virtuosity, poised restraint – Alfred Brendel passes the test on all accounts with his passionate, insightful and refreshing interpretation. On this performance, taken from Brendel’s 70th birthday residency in 2001, with the inestimable partners in Sir Simon Rattle and the Wiener Philharmoniker, Alfred Brendel writes that “listening to this live recording I felt that, for once, I heard what I wanted to hear”.
Brahms’s “Handel” Variations are what many consider to be the most imposing piece of its kind composed in the four decades that separate it from Beethoven’s “Diabelli” Variations. A work with a wealth of different characters, colour and masterful disposition. The Fugue in particular is something to marvel at with its contrapuntal and pianistic power. Even Wagner had to concede that the result was impressive, “One sees what can still be done with the old forms when someone comes along who knows how to handle them”.
Brendel has never recorded the Brahms “Handel” Variations in the studio. which makes this his first commercially available recording of the work.
“These unedited live recordings were a happy find, and I’m delighted to see them published” – Alfred Brendel
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