Grieg/Schumann: Piano Concerto
$30.00
Special Order3 - 6 weeks add to cart
EDVARD GRIEG / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Grieg/Schumann: Piano Concerto
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano) / Milan La Scala Orchestra, Alceo Galliera, Antonio Pedrotti
[ Naxos Historical / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 1 October 2012
This item is only available to us via Special Order. We should be able to get it to you in 3 - 6 weeks from when you order it.
Michelangeli was a peerless aristocrat of the piano. He had made his recording début for HMV in Milan in 1939, and in 1942 went into studios in the same city to record two major concertos for German Telefunken. Schumann's Piano Concerto is played with a dazzling, almost improvisatory freedom, whereas the Grieg Piano Concerto is a forthright, poetic and virtuosic performance, albeit one of great warmth. The smaller pieces reveal his outstanding gradations of tone. Remarkably, Michelangeli never re-recorded either concerto again in the studio.
Tracks:
Schumann, Robert
Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54
Grieg, Edvard
Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16
Lyric Pieces, Book 3, Op. 43: No. 5. Erotic
Lyric Pieces, Book 4, Op. 47: No. 5. Melancholy
Lyric Pieces, Book 9, Op. 68: No. 5. Lullaby
Debussy:
Images, Book 1: No. 1. Reflets dans l'eau
