Piano Concerto No. 1 & No 3

"This is an important disc. It can be judged by absolute standards and hold its own in any competition...Beethovenians and piano connoisseurs won't want to be without this disc."
-Digital Audio

"This "Choral" Fantasy is one of the brightest feathers in Telarc's collective cap. It is certainly a satisfying feast for ear and spirit alike. Here's careful musicianship and strong, solid digital sound: an inspiring combination that makes this CD one to look for."
-- Digital Audio

"These recordings deserve to do very well. Telarc are to be thanked for making them available once again in a superb acoustic and in first class digital sound."
(MusicWeb Dec 2005)

"Serkin's performance of the Third offers a thrilling display of musicianship at the zenith, a fusion of fire and strength with a profound strain of serenity; moreover, this octogenarian makes it all work with a technical command that many a younger lion must envy."
-- Milwaukee Sentinel

"Phrasing by Ozawa as well as the pianist breathe new life into this old favorite, and the exquisite Telarc digital processing enhances the package even more."
-- The Chattanooga Times

Seiji Ozawa is now in his twenty-second season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Ozawa became the BSO's thirteenth music director in 1973 after a year as music adviser. His tenure with the Boston Symphony is the longest of any music director currently active with an American orchestra. In his more than two decades as music director, Mr. Ozawa has maintained the orchestra's distinguished reputation both at home and abroad with concerts at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood, on tours to Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, China and South America-an across the United States-including regular concerts in New York. Mr. Ozawa has upheld the BSO's commitment to new music through the commissioning of new works, including a series of centennial commissions marking the orchestra's hundredth birthday in 1981, and a series of works celebrating the fiftieth anniversary in 1990 of the Tanglewood Music Center, the orchestra's summer training program for young musicians. In addition, he has recorded more than 130 works with the orchestra, representing more than fifty different composers on ten labels.