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Brahms - Piano Concerto no.1, Ballades op.10
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Cat No: HMC902191
Barcode: 3149020219126
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 15th April 2016
Soloist and orchestra dialogue as equals in Brahms’s defiantly symphonic First Piano Concerto, and so for a performance to succeed they need to operate on the same musical wavelength. Fortunately, Paul Lewis and Daniel Harding share a similar conception, striving for an ideal balance between the work’s Romantic and Classical aspects. ... [An] awareness of the underlying emotional tensions between major and minor key material makes Lewis’s performances of the Four Ballades just as memorable. 
[Lewis’s] account has clarity, muscle and steely pride, but also intimacy, vulnerability and volatility: the combination is magnetic. Conductor Daniel Harding goes for full-out symphonic bulk from the start and his Swedish orchestra sounds hearty and brooding – fuzzier-edged than Lewis’s metallic attack, but generally the partnership works. As a bonus, Lewis plays Brahms’s four Ballades Op 10; quiet, urgent and full of singing lines. 
