Brahms - Piano Concerto no.1, Overtures
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4825830
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 17th August 2018
Contents
Works
Academic Festival Overture, op.80Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor, op.15
Tragic Overture, op.81
Artists
Clifford Curzon (piano)Concertgebouworkest
Conductor
Eduard van BeinumWorks
Academic Festival Overture, op.80Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor, op.15
Tragic Overture, op.81
Artists
Clifford Curzon (piano)Concertgebouworkest
Conductor
Eduard van BeinumAbout
And for all that Curzon was renowned in this work for ‘revealing the inner soul of Brahms’ (Fanfare), his partnership with Eduard van Beinum never underplays the bold and craggy drama of the work, or the sense of it as a young man’s statement to the world, in terms of both Brahms the would-be symphonic composer and Brahms the fully-formed keyboard lion of his age.
The Concerto is complemented here by the two Brahms overtures which Van Beinum recorded in December 1952 for Decca (mono) and then again in 1958 in stereo for Philips (reissued on Eloquence 4429788). These earlier mono accounts are less familiar and more dynamically impetuous, but the relationship between orchestra and conductor in this music had already been forged by two Decca recordings of the First Symphony (in 1947 and 1951), and these performances share a proto-symphonic, rugged grandeur which is apt to the symphony. They were recorded as part of a month of sessions which took in the Haydn Variations as well as symphonies by Haydn and Schubert and En Saga and Tapiola of Sibelius, which have also been reissued as part of Eloquence’s ongoing revival of Van Beinum’s legacy on record. The Concerto recording from just six months later took place in sessions also supervised by the legendary Decca producer, John Culshaw.
‘Mr. Curzon offers a more relaxed, slower, warmer performance [than Serkin], adjectives that can be used also about Mr. van Beinum’s conception of the work. The orchestral sound is full and clearly defined, and Mr. Curzon’s solid tone stands out in admirable relief ... The Adagio is superb in its delicacy, poignancy, and tragic implications, and the last movement, given a slower, more lyric treatment, seems less elephantine than it sometimes does.’ – High Fidelity, June 1954 (Piano Concerto no.1)
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