| Grieg - Piano Concerto Op 16; Schumann - Piano Concerto Op54 |  | Creators: Edvard Grieg, Robert Schumann, Mariss Jansons, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Ove Andsnes
Label: EMI Classics
Category: Music
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Rating:  3 reviews
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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 59 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 57562
UPC: 724355756220
EAN: 0724355756220
ASIN: B0000BWTK3
Release Date: September 22, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | I: Allegro Molto Moderato | | • | II: Adagio | | • | III: Allegro Moderato E Marcato | | • | I: Allegro Affettuoso | | • | II: Intermezzo (Andantino Grazioso) | | • | III: Allegro Vivace |
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The definitive Grieg a-minor May 15, 2010
Zodiac (Norway)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the best recording of the Grieg concerto I've ever heard, and I've heard quite a few. I think Andnes' interpretation of the concerto has developed since he recorded the concerto in 1989/90. If you're looking for the best Grieg a-minor, well look no further. This is it.
brilliant November 30, 2008
enthusiast (sussex, uk)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
These are brilliant performances of much recorded (and frequently coupled) works. Andsnes plays beautifully, of course, and has much that is special to say about these works. These are inflammable performances but they are not barnstormers - they are very musical accounts that are quite simply special. Probably this is a top recommendation for this coupling and for each of these pieces. But do, please, listen to the Pires/Abbado version of the Schumann too: it is work with many faces and Andsnes shows you many of them but Pires shows you many new ones! I need both.
An unsurpassable recording with energy, youth and poetry June 17, 2007
Yi-Peng (Singapore)
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
I must admit I was sceptical at first when I heard that Andsnes was releasing this new CD of the Grieg and Schumann concertos. As much as I feared that this might be a run-of-the-mill performance, I found I was very well pleased with the result. Although I own the Lupu CD of these kindred souls of piano concertos (and found them perfectly balanced), I soon found that this Andsnes version runs rings around all the other versions I have heard so far. No matter what other people say, Andsnes is a superb pianist who gives well-rounded and balanced accounts of these two concertos, backed by punchy accompaniment from Jansons and the Berliners, and a sumptuous EMI recording that lacks a little in detail and clarity.
The Grieg concerto starts out with a punchy first movement, energetic and poetic, as if Andsnes and Jansons are setting sparks off at each other. Andsnes' opening flourish is firm and weighty, but he counterbalances it with a due sense of poetry in the quieter sections of the movement. The slow movement is meditative but it never drags the concerto, and Andsnes, true to his Norweigan roots, really relishes the dance-like finale. In the secondary theme of the finale he is given excellent support by the winds, especially the flautist, in evoking the Norweigan fjords that might have inspired this music. The Schumann is a beautifully renderred version, and Andsnes taps more into his poetic gifts here. One hears a continuous forward momentum in this work that I tend to find sorely lacking in other recordings. Andsnes conveys a strength and a vulnerability crucial in this piece, and the first movement really stands out. The Intermezzo ably bridges the first movement and the finale, and one can hear a joie de vivre here.
In short, I would recommend this disc to every lover of classical music and especially piano music, no matter how many other versions of these concertos you have. I think that even though I disagree with most music critics, this was well-deserving of the Rosette and the Gramophone Editor's Choice that it garnered.
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