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With some 400 recordings of Beethoven's five piano concertos currently listed, even Ludwig's biggest fans must have trouble getting excited about new ones. Except when they are played by Alfred Brendel, an artist whose interpretive mastery of the composer continues to ripen. In his latest release, Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos (Philips Classics), Brendel teams with conductor Sir Simon Rattle and the Vienna Philharmonic in exhilarating performances that blend vitality, expressive breadth and, particularly in the five slow movements, spellbinding beauty...
Brendel, 68, a longtime London resident of Austrian descent, has recorded works by composers from Bach to Schoenberg. His advocacy of Schubert's late sonatas and many of Liszt's once derided works is widely credited with enhancing the reputations of even these great composers. But it is to Beethoven's works that Brendel has returned most often. In the process he has become the most inspired interpreter of Beethoven's piano music since Artur Schnabel (1882-1951). In addition to the many concert cycles of the 32 sonatas he has played on both sides of the Atlantic, Brendel...
...Pines of Rome" was brilliant and provided a dramatic ending to an explosive program. While less well-known than the opener, "The Pines of Rome" is an equally moving experience which was perhaps even more effective in reaching out to the community in a unique way. Exposure to Beethoven and even Orff can come from The Looney Tunes, but Respighi is an experience rarely appreciated by non-classical music listeners, despite the emotional power of his work. Pieces like this, or Lin's Tchaikovsky, or even the improvised new arrangement of Gershwin are what makes a live performance unique...
...celebrate conductor Seiji Ozawa's 25th Anniversary. Roberta Flack hosted the event, with Joseph Lin '00 joining them as a featured soloist for the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D, Opus 35. The grand affair, whose ambitious program featured famed excerpts from the likes of Strauss, Beethoven and Gershwin, kicked off a new BSO initiative called "Symphony in the City" the aim of which is to offer free music to the city neighborhoods of Boston...
...Pines of Rome" was brilliant and provided a dramatic ending to an explosive program. While less well-known than the opener, "The Pines of Rome" is an equally moving experience which was perhaps even more effective in reaching out to the community in a unique way. Exposure to Beethoven and even Orff can come from The Looney Tunes, but Respighi is an experience rarely appreciated by non-classical music listeners, despite the emotional power of his work. Pieces like this, or Lin's Tchaikovsky, or even the improvised new arrangement of Gershwin are what makes a live performance unique...