With archive recordings from the years to , this series makes possible a comparison of the interpretative styles of legendary pianists of the past century.
They range from Wilhelm Backhaus and Wilhelm Kempff, two Germans diametrically opposed in their styles of interpretation, and the more. Karl BΓΆhms Dirigiertugenden wie Genauigkeit, Disziplin und kapellmeisterliche Strenge finden im klaren Klavierstil des hier bereits jΓ€hrigen Wilhelm Backhaus ein gleichgewichtiges GegenΓΌber.
They range from Wilhelm Backhaus and Wilhelm Kempff, two Germans diametrically opposed in their styles of interpretation, and the Austrian Friedrich Gulda, β whose image formed by a certain prejudice is corrected here through a highly differentiated point of view β and the representatives of the French piano school Clara Haskil, Robert Casadesus and Alfred Cortot to the Brasilian pianist Nelson Freire and the American music ambassador Julius Katchen.
Especially worth of mention are the live recording and the studio recording made the next day of Mozart's Piano Concerto Nr. In addition, a live recording of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. Mehr lesen. I am especially fond of the second Saint-Saens concerto, and I have heard it a number of times in concert.
I have five or six recordings of it, and I Mehr lesen. This worthy addition to the discography of Nelson Freire captures one of a handful of live concerto recordings to be found outside his major-label Mehr lesen.
