This live recording contains not the later music-making of Austrian bad-boy pianist Friedrich Gulda (what other pianist faked his own death?), but music from early in his career, when he was a newly minted prodigy in the decade after World War II. As annotator Gottfried Kraus points out in his rather too Germanic booklet notes (in what way, pray tell, was Austria's musical tradition "inviolate" in 1953), that prodigy status itself helps explain the vicissitudes of Gulda's career. Gulda's playing fell firmly within Viennese ...
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This live recording contains not the later music-making of Austrian bad-boy pianist Friedrich Gulda (what other pianist faked his own death?), but music from early in his career, when he was a newly minted prodigy in the decade after World War II. As annotator Gottfried Kraus points out in his rather too Germanic booklet notes (in what way, pray tell, was Austria's musical tradition "inviolate" in 1953), that prodigy status itself helps explain the vicissitudes of Gulda's career. Gulda's playing fell firmly within Viennese boundaries at this point, but even here he produced fresh performances not modeled too closely on those of any of his Austrian contemporaries in these two Beethoven concertos. The most striking feature of these performances is that Gulda conducted the Vienna Symphony from the keyboard, something not terribly common in 1953, and certainly not in Beethoven. In an era of oversize Beethoven performances, Gulda forges very nice music of chamber dimensions, with sensitive coordination...
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