Brahms & Schumann - Piano Concertos
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Label: Testament
Cat No: SBT21460
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 4th January 2011
Contents
Artists
Van Cliburn (piano)Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Fritz ReinerWorks
Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat major, op.83Piano Concerto in A minor, op.54
Artists
Van Cliburn (piano)Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Fritz ReinerAbout
Such celebrity, such sudden fame and fortune, has its dangers. To relish such lavish acknowledgement is understandable, but so is the need to grow and enrich even the most remarkable talent. Cliburn’s repertoire of largely standard works failed to expand and within too short a time the strains of endless touring, of prolonged stays in foreign and alien surroundings, to say nothing of sniping comments by colleagues envious of his fame, took their toll. Tired and disillusioned, missing his family and friends, Cliburn took a sabbatical that extended for many years. Judgements such as “I consider him to have been ethically defective as an artist. He never took it seriously that he had a pair of miraculous hands. I think that when his instincts could take him no further, he didn’t make the effort to buttress instinct with conscious understanding” must have hurt an essentially innocent nature. Later cocooned in Fort Worth, Texas, he remained unknowable (“he walks, stands with a sheath of reserve so thick you could cut it with a Bowie knife”) and certainly my own conversations with Cliburn many years ago in both Dallas and London rarely penetrated beyond a persona at once natural and calculated. Warm, charming, outwardly easy-going and with a wacky Texan sense of humour he made for delightful company, but I came away puzzled by a man who stayed so resolutely on the surface of things (“Oh, I’m so personal that I would never let anybody know what I like or dislike”). Did he end like Eileen Joyce, a similary ill-fated over-exposed pianist, whose early brilliance and glamour ended with the bleak opinion, “I’ve had an odd life. I haven’t liked it much.”?
Extract from the boklet note © Bryce Morrison, 2011
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