Mozart - Piano Concertos; Beethoven - Choral Fantasia
Despatch Information
This despatch estimate is based on information from both our own stock and the UK supplier's stock.
If ordering multiple items, we will aim to send everything together so the longest despatch estimate will apply to the complete order.
If you would rather receive certain items more quickly, please place them on a separate order.
If any unexpected delays occur, we will keep you informed of progress via email and not allow other items on the order to be held up.
If you would prefer to receive everything together regardless of any delay, please let us know via email.
Pre-orders will be despatched as close as possible to the release date.
Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4828533
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 28th September 2018
Contents
Works
Fantasy for piano, chorus and orchestra in C minor, op.80 'Choral Fantasy'Piano Concerto no.10 in E flat major, K365 (for two pianos)
Piano Concerto no.15 in B flat major, K450
Piano Concerto no.17 in G major, K453
Piano Concerto no.21 in C major, K467 'Elvira Madigan'
Piano Concerto no.25 in C major, K503
Artists
Andor Foldes (piano)Carl Seemann (piano)
Berliner Motettenchor
RIAS Kammerchor
Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductors
Fritz LehmannLeopold Ludwig
Paul Schmitz
Works
Fantasy for piano, chorus and orchestra in C minor, op.80 'Choral Fantasy'Piano Concerto no.10 in E flat major, K365 (for two pianos)
Piano Concerto no.15 in B flat major, K450
Piano Concerto no.17 in G major, K453
Piano Concerto no.21 in C major, K467 'Elvira Madigan'
Piano Concerto no.25 in C major, K503
Artists
Andor Foldes (piano)Carl Seemann (piano)
Berliner Motettenchor
RIAS Kammerchor
Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductors
Fritz LehmannLeopold Ludwig
Paul Schmitz
About
The pianist’s ‘craftsman-like approach’ to Beethoven was warmly appreciated in Gramophone (March 2018) by Rob Cowan, reviewing two Eloquence albums of sonatas and variations (ELQ4827053, ELQ4825854), who noted how Foldes seems ‘absolutely at home in the recording studio ... His playing is a pleasure to listen to on its own terms, rather like enjoying the precise workings of a meticulously engineered watch movement.’
These qualities of precision and transparency are, it could be argued, still more germane to the performance of Mozart. The earliest recording presented in this collection is the 1954 account of the G major Concerto K453, which reveals to perfection Foldes’s singing sonority and seamless legato; his crystalline trills, fluid arpeggios, and deftly-defined finger-work in the first movement are particularly beguiling. His 1963 reading of the Concerto no.25 in C major K503 features beautifully burnished lines and attentive balance between melodic and harmonic elements, the interplay between orchestra and soloist being remarkably cohesive.
The Concerto K467, surely the sunniest and most untroubled of the mature concertos, or so it seems in this 1957 recording. In all the concertos he receives richly textured support from the Berliner Philharmoniker, who are also on hand for the substantial ‘bonus’ of Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, making this album an essential complement to the Eloquence reissue of the composer’s First and Fifth Concertos (ELQ4827048).
‘The solo playing, the singing and the orchestral playing are all in the highest degree sensitive, and they are all given every chance by a first-class recording. In particular, the piano comes off well.’ – Gramophone, April 1956 (Beethoven)
‘Among the better recordings of these masterworks ... [Foldes] is favoured with excellent orchestral support and generally first-rate recording.’ – High Fidelity, July 1958 (Concertos K453, K467)
This product has now been deleted. Information is for reference only.
Error on this page? Let us know here
Need more information on this product? Click here