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chopin/liszt - concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 (33rpm lp)
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MEDIUM Vinyl Record
AUDIOPHIL Yes
WEIGHT 180gr (black vinyl) 33rpm
CONDITION sealed
CONDITION RECORD M mint
COVER Standard
CONDITION COVER M mint
SERIALNUMBER No
BARCODE Yes
LIMITED EDITION No
MISCELLANEOUS --

MUSICIANS

Martha Argerich – piano
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado- conducting

FREDERIC CHOPIN (1810 – 1849)

concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 in e minor op. 11 ct. 47

FRANZ LISZT (1811 – 1886)

concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 in e flat major s. 124 (lw h4)

REVIEW

The virtuoso concerto is often criticised by audiences chatting in the concert-hall foyer as being superficial and narcistic, but a brilliant soloist performing with a dramatic and sonorous orchestra certainly has no need for excuses

Let’s be honest: we all want to enjoy the brilliance and ecstasy of such music

Putting Chopin’s brilliant youthful work, with which he took Paris by the storm, alongside Liszt’s symphonically structured work with its manifold improvisatory passages is rather like comparing apples and oranges

However, a compilation of the two works on one record is highly desirable, especially when the youthful and athletic Martha Argerich is at the keyboard

She lends Chopin’s dominant piano part elegance, pearly lightness, and brings out his exquisite harmonies to create haunting poetry in music

Just as effortlessly she brings the sharp contrasts between lyrical airiness and extreme tension to perfection in Liszt’s E flat major concerto

With shivers running down the spine, one eagerly awaits Argerich playing the forceful passages, where her complete control is particularly evident in the phenomenal chordal passages

RECORDING Feburary 1968 at Walthamstow Townhall London
MASTERING Heinz Wildhagen
RE MASTERING Heinz Wildhagen
RE RELEASED January 2009
RE PRINTED --
RATING 5 Stars out of 5
PRESSING Audiophil by Pallas Germany
SOUND Audiophil
MADE IN Germany
STYLE Classic / Piano Concerto
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This product was added to our catalog on Friday 09 January, 2009.

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