Klaus Tennstedt conducts Prokofiev, Dvorak and Mussorgsky
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Label: Testament
Cat No: SBT21450
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 9th August 2010
Contents
Works
Symphony no.9 in E minor, op.95 B178 'From the New World'A Night on the Bare Mountain (original version)
Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor, op.16
Artists
Horacio Gutierrez (piano)Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor
Klaus TennstedtWorks
Symphony no.9 in E minor, op.95 B178 'From the New World'A Night on the Bare Mountain (original version)
Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor, op.16
Artists
Horacio Gutierrez (piano)Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor
Klaus TennstedtAbout
Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto took second place in the programme. Horacio Gutierrez, the soloist, was born in 1948 in Havana, Cuba. Resident in the USA since 1961, he graduated from the Juilliard School in New York and won the silver medal at the 1970 International Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow. His G minor Prokofiev Concerto with Tennstedt was secure and refined, full of dynamic contrasts and tonal colour. He "revealed the pompous intelligence of this work, its witty muscularity, with astonishing delicacy and a technical facility full of power and yet able to achieve the most impressive heights of virtuosity without detectable overexertion." (Klaus Geitel)
The excitement was maintained through the second part of the concert in a performance of Dvorák’s Ninth Symphony in E minor. Klaus Geitel’s review in the Berliner Morgenpost praised the "musicianly logic of Tennstedt’s reading, its emotional coherence and thoughtfulness, and its energy, masterfully reflected by the brilliantly responsive orchestra." Geitel’s colleague Walter Kaempfer was less wholly enthusiastic: "While the orchestra maintained its customary excellent standard in the lyrical portions, as always in the tone quality of the woodwind and strings both in tutti and concertino sections of the work, still there were other places which to my taste were overblown and mannered." As always, the recording of the concert vividly reproduces the excitement of the evening for today’s listener, who will easily perceive the enthusiasm of conductor, orchestra and audience alike.
from the booklet note © Helge Grünewald, 2010
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