The Complete Vox: Turnabout and Vanguard Solo Recordings [01-12]

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艺人: Alfred Brendel / I Solisti di Zagreb / Antonio Janigro
语种: 其他
厂牌: Brilliant Classics
发行时间: 2008年11月03日
专辑类别: 合集、杂锦

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Mozart: Klavierkonzerte Nr. 9, 14, 17, 19, 20, 22, 25, 27;

Konzert für 2 Klaviere & Orchester KV 365;Rondo KV 385 für

Klavier & Orchester;Quintett KV 452 für Klavier & Bläser;

Klaviersonate Nr. 8 a-moll KV 310;Fantasie KV 396;Rondo

KV 511;Variationen KV 573;Sonate für 2 Klaviere KV 448;

Fuge c-moll KV 426 für 2 Klaviere

+Haydn: Klavierkonzert D-Dur H. 18 Nr. 11

+Beethoven: Klavierkonzerte Nr. 1-5;Chorfantasie op. 80;

Klaviersonaten Nr. 1-32;Rondo B-Dur G. 151;Quintett Es-Dur

op. 16 für Klavier & Bläser;Eroica-Variationen op. 35;

Variationen op. 34;op. 76;WoO. 64-66, 69-73, 75-80;

Diabelli-Variationen op. 120;Rondos op. 51 Nr. 1 & 2;Allegretto

c-moll WoO. 53;6 Ecossaisen WoO. 83;Bagatelle WoO. 59 "Für

Elise";Polonaise op. 89;Bagatellen op. 33, 119, 126;Rondo a

capriccio G-Dur op. 129 "Die Wut über den verlorenen

Groschen";Andante favori WoO. 57;Ziemlich lebhaft WoO. 60

+Schubert: Klaviersonaten D. 840 & 958;Deutsche Tänze D. 783;

Impromptus D. 899 & 935;3 Klavierstücke D. 946;

Wanderer-Fantasie D. 790

+Schubert / Liszt: Wanderer-Fantasie für Klavier & Orchester

+Chopin: Polonaisen Nr. 4-7;Andante spianato et Grande

Polonaise brillante op. 22

+Schumann: Fantasie op. 17;Symphonische Etüden op. 13

+Liszt: Klavierkonzerte Nr. 1 & 2;Totentanz;Maldediction;

Klaviersonate h-moll;Dante-Sonate;Bagatelle sans tonalite;

Czardas macabre;La lugubre gondola;Mephisto-Walzer Nr. 1;

Opern-Paraphrasen nach Donizetti, Verdi, Bellini, Weber,

Berlioz;Wagner;Paganini-Etüden;3 Petrarca-Sonette;Venezia e

Napoli;Harmonies poetiques et religieuses;6 Ungarische

Rhapsodien;Csardas obstine

+Mussorgsky: Bilder einer Ausstellung

+Strawinsky: Petruschka-Suite für Klavier

+Balakireff: Orientalische Fantasie "Islamey"

+Schönberg: Klavierkonzert op. 42

+Prokofieff: Klavierkonzert Nr. 5

Alfred Brendel, Walter Klien, Hungarian Quintet,

I Solisti di Zagreb, Orchester der Wiener Volksoper,

Pro Musica Orchester, Kammerorchester Wien, Stuttgart PO,

Wien SO, RO Baden-Baden, Michael Gielen, Antonio Janigro,

Paul Angerer, Wilfried Boettcher, Heinz Wallberg

As Alfred Brendel brought to a close his public performing career in 2008, Brilliant Classics compiled a 35-CD set devoted to the pianist's complete solo and concerted discs for the Vox, Turnabout, and Vanguard labels, recorded prior to the long affiliation with Philips that helped cement his international career. Although Brendel generally does not look kindly upon his distant discographical past (he apparently "disowns" his world-premiere Prokofiev Fifth Concerto that closes disc 35), he certainly has little for which to apologize here, musically and pianistically speaking. Indeed, in certain cases I've long preferred Brendel's earlier, budget-priced versions to his later and costlier counterparts.

At least four Mozart concerto readings substantiate my claim, specifically the beautifully engineered and subtly inflected K. 271, K. 449, K. 482, and K. 503 works. The calmer, more rippling Schubert Impromptus score over both of Brendel's relatively self-conscious Philips remakes. Likewise, the picky, italicized nature of his Philips Schubert D. 958 sonata traversals appeal to me far less than his fiery, vividly characterized, utterly gripping Vanguard version. He played Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition more fluidly and flexibly as an ambitious twenty-something for Vox than did his older, more celebrated, and textually truer self for Philips.

Much as I respect and appreciate the mindful virtuosity of Brendel's 1980s Liszt recordings, his less-favorably engineered yet more unfettered youthful counterpart proved no slouch in the B minor and Dante sonatas, to say nothing of the various opera paraphrases' surface bravura and scintillation. While his Vanguard Liszt Rhapsodies and Chopin recital don't represent the last word in Romantic rhetoric (notwithstanding the nifty improvised flourish toward the Second Rhapsody's end), the interpretations remain fresh and unhackneyed.

Both Brendel and conductor Michael Gielen certainly knew what they were doing in their first recording of the Schoenberg concerto, although they ultimately achieved reference status decades later for Philips. And as for Stravinsky and Balakirev, in a "blind" listening test unsuspecting keyboard mavens likely will never guess who's playing so authoritatively and brilliantly in the horrendously difficult climactic pages from Petrouchka's last movement or in Islamey's mounds of double notes.

Brendel's pioneering complete Beethoven piano music cycle (including the concertos) takes up nearly half of the set's contents. It embodies the "consistent inconsistency" that can leave an academic, fussy, tonally unalluring aftertaste (the 32 C minor Variations, the D major Op. 28 sonata), yet at other times hits the proverbial nail on the head (the brilliantly turned out Op. 31 No. 3, Op. 54, and Appassionata sonatas), even in the same piece (the Pathétique sonata's draggy first-movement introduction versus the supple, insightfully inflected Rondo).

No doubt the variable sonics partly contribute to my observations. For example, Op. 22's dry and boxy sound, which wouldn't have passed muster in the early mono days, contrasts sharply to Op. 90's intimately detailed, rounded reproduction. Once you get past the raw orchestral execution in the concertos, you'll discover frequently more impetuous and daring conceptions of the solo parts than Brendel would deliver in his more polished Philips versions: sample the vehement, not too subtle yet exciting Emperor Concerto, and an unusually rhapsodic yet attention-grabbing Fourth. Brendel's own words help frame Ates Orga's balanced and perceptive commentaries on the recordings. Although we no longer have the opportunity to hear Brendel perform live, we still can buy this enticingly-priced package for less money than a premium ticket to one of the pianist's "farewell" recitals.

--Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com

The Complete Vox: Turnabout and Vanguard Solo Recordings [01-12]　[35CD Boxset]

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