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Tchaikovsky / Brahms - Piano Concertos | ICA Classics ICAC5092

Tchaikovsky / Brahms - Piano Concertos

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Label: ICA Classics

Cat No: ICAC5092

Barcode: 5060244550926

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 28th January 2013

Contents

Artists

Geza Anda (piano)
Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Georg Solti
Otto Klemperer

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat major, op.83

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Piano Concerto no.1 in B flat minor, op.23

Artists

Geza Anda (piano)
Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Georg Solti
Otto Klemperer

About

Hungarian-born Géza Anda (1921–1976) was described by the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler as ‘a troubadour of the piano’ whose early death robbed the world of one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. Anda was an incredible virtuoso, who in 1957 played all the Bartók concertos in one concert but also took up a different challenge by performing and recording all the Mozart piano concertos later in his life. He performed with all the major orchestras and conductors of the time, including Boulez, Fricsay, Karajan, Kubelík and Solti, and made a large number of definitive recordings for EMI and Deutsche Grammophon of music by Brahms, Chopin, Liszt and especially Schumann.

This spine-tingling account of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 has never been issued before. It is a ‘live’ studio recording from 1958 with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra accompanied by Georg Solti, a fellow Hungarian, and the performance generates enormous electricity between the two artists.

The live recording from 1954 of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No.2 conducted by Otto Klemperer has been issued before but it has been newly remastered for this release. It qualifies for a re-release on the basis that it is one the most recommendable versions of the work and should never be out of the catalogue.

Contents:
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Sir Georg Solti
Saal 1, Funkhaus, Cologne, 2 June 1958

Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Otto Klemperer
Saal 1, Funkhaus, Cologne, 5 April 1954

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