Nelson Freire - Memories: The Unreleased Recordings (1970 - 2019)
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Nelson Freire - Memories: The Unreleased Recordings (1970 - 2019)
Nelson Freire (piano) / Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Uri Segal / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gielen & Horst Stein
[ Decca Records / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 18 November 2022
On November 21st 2021, Nelson Freire was taken before his time. One year on, he is remembered with a new collection of previously unreleased Decca recordings, bonus tracks making their debut on disc and rare radio broadcast tapes; some of Nelson's finest performances from a time he rarely recorded commercially.
The collection is accompanied by a new essay by Dominic Fyfe, Nelson's long-time Decca producer.
This set includes:
'The Berlin Sessions - Rediscovered', unreleased recordings from 2014 of Gluck, Bach and Beethoven's Andante favori - his only recording of this piece.
Rare Radio Tapes - Broadcast concerto performances from 1970-1985 including Beethoven 4 and Brahms 2, Bartok 1 and Richard Strauss' Burleske.
New to CD - Bonus tracks never before released on CD including music by his beloved Villa-Lobos and Debussy.
Tracks:
CD1:
'THE BERLIN SESSIONS, 2014' (TRACK 1-3)
1 Gluck arr. Sgambati: Mélodie (Dance of the Blessed Spirits) from Orpheus ed Euridice
2 J.S. Bach arr. Hess: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
3 Beethoven: Andante favori in F, WoO 57
4 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4 in G major, Op.58 (Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR/Uri Segal) - SWR, 6 October 1972
5 Beethoven: Bagatelle, Op. 119 No.11 - Andante, ma non troppo
6 R. Strauss: Burleske für Klavier und Orchester dMoll, AV 85 (SWF-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden/Zoltan Pesko) - SWF, 10 December 1985
7 Debussy: La Plus Que Lente
8 Villa-Lobos: Preludio (Introdução) (No. 1 from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4)
CD2:
1 Bartók: Piano Concerto No.1 (Sz.83, BB91) (Frankfurt Radio Symphony/Michael Gielen) - Hessischer Rundfunk, 22-23 October 1970
2 Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat major, Op.83 (Frankfurt Radio Symphony/Horst Stein) - Hessicher Rundfunk, 28 March - 1 April 1977
3 Brahms: Intermezzo, Op.118 No.2 in A major
