This cycle of Beethoven's complete piano concertos was recorded in December of 2020, with social distancing regulations in effect; the players were seated six feet from each other at the London Symphony Orchestra's St. Luke's facility. The performances had no live audiences but were streamed, and the overall effect is an interesting hybrid of studio and live recording. To get the instrumental blend, Deutsche Grammophon's engineers moved into the players' space at many points, picking up a good deal of ambient noise. It's ...
Read More
This cycle of Beethoven's complete piano concertos was recorded in December of 2020, with social distancing regulations in effect; the players were seated six feet from each other at the London Symphony Orchestra's St. Luke's facility. The performances had no live audiences but were streamed, and the overall effect is an interesting hybrid of studio and live recording. To get the instrumental blend, Deutsche Grammophon's engineers moved into the players' space at many points, picking up a good deal of ambient noise. It's quite compelling, inasmuch as pianist Krystian Zimerman is a player who draws the audience into his world of control; one actually has the feeling of being at a live performance here. It's a strong group of Beethoven performances that reveal Zimerman's usual approach in Beethoven, not drastically different from his earlier cycle with Leonard Bernstein (mostly) at the helm of the Vienna Philharmonic. Zimerman is careful, detailed, even self-effacing in terms of how he carves out a...
Read Less
Add this copy of Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos to cart. $55.60, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2021 by DG.
Portions of content provided by Rovi Corporation. © 2024 Rovi Corporation.