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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Another Perahia Gem,
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This review is from: Beethoven: Concertos for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 & 4 (MP3 Download)
It is said that in all his cantatas composed for every day in the Church year, J S Bach never did a sub-standard or shoddy piece of work. I feel the same is true of Perahia. Here in these two concertos he plays with sesitivity and great interpretive skill - we take his musicianship and technical skill as a given. Listen to the slow movement in the third and it is as though he is waiting and listening for the footfall of the composer himself. Concerto four begins in the same way. Yet he trips off the livelier passages with energy, grace and life. Part of the delight of these recordings is the accompaniment of the Concertegebouw under Bernard Haitink. This is starry playing in its own right and often touched with glory. The music of heaven must have sounds like this! Alexander Whyte, a prince of the pulpit in days past, advised about a good book, ' Sell your bed, and buy it.' I feel the same about this recording. It needs no sales promotion; it sells itself
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4.1 out of 5 stars (12 customer reviews) 13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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I actually like these performances!,
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This review is from: Beethoven: Piano Concertos 3 & 4 (Audio CD)
Apparently Perahia's crystalline Beethoven is not to everyone's taste. If you're looking for rugged Beethoven, you would do better to look elsewhere. What I find impressive about these Perahia interpretations, however, is their classical restraint, taking the form of carefully molded phrasing, which comes across to some as aloofness. This restraint is necessary in preserving Perahia's crystalline purity of tone. NOBODY can match Perahia in the evenness and leggiero touch of his scales in the Third Concerto, for example. The legendary performances of the past are irreplaceable but these are uniquely special too! As for the sound, there is a definite preference for a concert hall perspective here: the mikes are placed at a reasonable distance in a reverberant acoustic, which INCREASES dynamic range by properly conveying pianissimos in contrast to the tutti moments. Perhaps others prefer close-up recording balances but I like how these recordings convey sonic details in realistic perspective.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Perahia's Masterful Beethoven,
By "drdolores" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Beethoven: Piano Concertos 3 & 4 (Audio CD)
One is lost for words when faced with music making of this calibre. Perahia's perfect sense of phrasing, his poetry, his wondrous control of tone production, his powerful sense of drama and his lyricism, never resorting to bombast or histrionics, make this without a doubt one of the great recorded couplings of these two works. And Haitink's broad, contemplative readings, while never lacking thrust or impetus, show us both sides of Beethoven's character; not just the virtuosic showman, but also Beethoven the philosopher and poet. A fine example of this is in the 4th's central movement. Nowhere else has Liszt's description of this elusive music, 'Orpheus taming the Furies' seemed more apt then here; the breathtaking purity and transluscent milkiness of Perahia's perfectly shaped lines gradually embue the grave and tragic utterances of the orchestra to leniancy.This is a must. Among the greatest Beethoven recordings of the last 20 years. 8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Refreshing Variations from Perahia, Concertgebouw,
By David M. Garrett - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Beethoven: Piano Concertos 3 & 4 (Audio CD)
It is with good reason that the 2005 Gramophone Guide to Classical CDs lists this among their most praised versions of Beethoven Concertos 3 and 4. Indeed Perahia's entire Beethoven concerto cycle ranks with Kempff as among the best avaialble. (I personally recommend Perahia or Rubinstein for Concertos 1, 2 and 4; Kempff for 1-4; Serkin for 3 and 5; Richter for 5.) The lighter, chamber quality of the Haitink's Concertgebouw offers a nice variation from the standard, more heavy orchestral execution of these pieces. This gives both pieces the more intiment feeling of a recital than a concert hall. Perahia's interpretations are deft and appealing. This is an excellent recording. Perahia perhaps shines most in the Fourth, where power is effectively balanced with appropriate delicacy. While always technically proficient, Perahia's performance does not eschew the emotional investment we've come to expect from his Mozart, Richter's Prokofiev, or Rubinstein's Chopin.
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