In the latter decades of the 19th century the program offered on this release might have been one of the most common of all for an evening of piano-and-orchestra music. Nowadays the Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25, of Mendelssohn is not the repertory giant it once was, but it's a beautiful fit with the expressive world of pianist Ingrid Fliter. Several factors combine to make this an unusually satisfying Romantic piano concerto offering, but among them is the high-contrast approach of Fliter herself, really ...
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In the latter decades of the 19th century the program offered on this release might have been one of the most common of all for an evening of piano-and-orchestra music. Nowadays the Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25, of Mendelssohn is not the repertory giant it once was, but it's a beautiful fit with the expressive world of pianist Ingrid Fliter. Several factors combine to make this an unusually satisfying Romantic piano concerto offering, but among them is the high-contrast approach of Fliter herself, really capturing the listener's attention. And it's all done within the moderate parameters of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under the young conductor Antonio Méndez, the same size as the orchestra that would have played these works in the composers' own time. The Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, contains an episodic feel in Fliter's hands, all within the concerto's intricate form: the opening is strikingly urgent without being loud, the lyrical passages seem to bloom, and the finale...
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