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Alfred Brendel - Live from the BBC | Philips 4758322

Alfred Brendel - Live from the BBC

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Label: Philips

Cat No: 4758322

Barcode: 0028947583226

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 11th October 2007

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Alfred Brendel's personal choice of his Live and BBC radio recordings, previously unreleased live performances from the archives of the BBC Rare repertoire, and even a recording of Brendel playing Chopin. A very rare event!

These performances date from BBC studio recordings and concerts given between 1968 and 2001 and all broadcast by the BBC.

While Beethoven is a major element in this 2-CD set with a performance of the "Diabelli" Variations, and Piano Sonata No.28, there are also selections from Mendelssohn and two of the rarely-heard Elegies by Busoni and - even more of a rarity (and a composer not usually associated with Brendel) - Chopin's Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise in E flat.

On 5 January 2006 Alfred Brendel celebrated his 75th birthday and an association with Philips as an exclusive artist of over thirty-five years.

'A perfectionist at the piano... master pianist Alfred Brendel' The Sunday Times

'Brendel's playing is distinguished by its heightened intellectual and emotional instensity, by his ability to energize details while sustaining taut lines, by his infallible grasp of musical architecture and by his extraordinary empathy with composers' Time Magazine

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