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Wilhelm Backhaus plays Mozart & Brahms | Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or C796091

Wilhelm Backhaus plays Mozart & Brahms

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Label: Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or

Cat No: C796091

Barcode: 4011790796123

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 5th October 2009

Contents

Artists

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Karl Bohm

Works

Brahms, Johannes

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

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Piano Concerto no.27 in B flat major, K595

Artists

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Karl Bohm

About

The Salzburg performances of Wilhelm Backhaus all had something imperturbably monumental about them. The Austrian Radio archives contain tapes of him playing two concertos with the Vienna Philharmonic under Karl Böhm, the first from 1960, the second from 1968, on both occasions in the Großes Festspielhaus, with neither performance showing any signs of artistic compromise in spite of Backhaus's advancing years.

To Mozart's final piano concerto he brings extreme delicacy and a sense of rapt otherworldliness, whereas Brahms' Second Piano Concerto has all the weight of tone that one could possibly want not only in the work's chordal textures but also in its pounding passage-work. Nor is the concerto's careful structure neglected by Böhm, who was no less strict with himself than he was with his partners when it came to imposing his commanding grasp of architectural form on a piece.

Live Recording, 1960.

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