Alfred Brendel, Radu Lupu, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, André Previn – Schumann, Grieg – Piano Concertos (1973-1979/2020)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:03:24 minutes | 2,55 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Decca / Esoteric – ESSD-90228
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Alfred Brendel – Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 (1974/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 49:29 minutes | 506 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.
Supplementary to his legendary Beethoven cycles for Decca are Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt’s recordings for Philips, Mercury, Deutsche Grammophon and Accord. They date from 1944 (Sutermeister) to 1972, when he made his last recording, fittingly by Mozart (Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe) a composer whom he revered above all: “We are too intimate friends … I can’t even explain what it is I feel when I listen to his music, that makes my eyes damp and my breath catch. … At the end of my life I should like to dissolve myself completely in Mozart’s music.”
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Alfred Brendel, Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marrine – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 12 & 17 (1970/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 55:47 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pentatone
Here is another gem from PENTATONE’s marvellous series of ‘Remastered Classics ‘ in which classic performances from the 1970s, originally recorded in 4-channel quadraphonic sound, are given a new lease of life on SACD and match, or even sometimes exceed in naturalness, many recordings made today.
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Alfred Brendel – Mozart: Fantasia in C Minor, K.396; Piano Sonatas (2012/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:12 minutes | 1021 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
The sonatas on this album are considered to be harder than most Mozart piano sonatas because they present a few more technical challenges, such as ornaments at the beginning of the melody or contrapuntal entrances of the theme, than his other sonatas. Alfred Brendel makes these challenges sound oh-so-easy and natural. His is a graceful Mozart with many detailed shadings, despite his occasionally playing with more forcefulness than is necessary and not as subtly as it could be. The opening of the Sonata in E flat, K. 282, and the Fantasia, K. 396, have similarities in their slow, meandering, but not random, temperaments. Brendel gives the minuets of the E flat sonata more idiosyncratic humor than one expects of a stately dance. The Sonata in D major, K. 576, is particularly elegant. He doesn’t make too much of the hunting call at the very beginning of the first movement’s main theme, but keeps it in proportion with the rest of the theme, and he handles all the contrapuntal entrances of that same theme as if they were part of a full-fledged fugue. Brendel recognizes the Classical refinements of Mozart’s sonatas and combines those with a little coloring to give them more depth and character.
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