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Audio Beat Rated 4/5 Music, 4/5 Sound!
Ferenc Fricsay conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring pianist Clara Haskil performing Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos. 19 and 27.
In spite of the varying degrees of popularity of Mozarts numerous piano concertos, no one would seriously consider ranking them by quality. It would certainly prove an impossible task, for each and every one of these intense yet often playful compositions could be considered the most perfect of its genre. In view of this, one should concentrate on each works highly individual character and this can hardly be more contrasting than in the present two pieces. Thanks to the joyous, energetic disposition of No. 19 in F major, K. 259, it appears to be filled with the exuberant spirit of Mozarts Viennese period a time when he amazed audiences with his dexterity at the keyboard. As a contrast, the mood of the late No. 27 in B flat major, K. 595, which was performed in a small circle, is introvert and mellow. The old adage that Mozarts final concerto was a gesture of farewell and filled with a premonition of death is certainly not substantiated by Haskil and Fricsays performance. Through the subtle and flowing clarity of her piano part under the tense and elastic opposition of the orchestra, the soloist banishes the question of the end of time into the background and so pays hommage to the relaxed and self-assured mastery of the Salzburg composer.
"This reissue gives us a glimpse of the purity of tone and the precise phrasing that were hallmarks of Clara Haskil's playing, a style lost too soon in 1965, when Haskil sustained critical injuries in a fall from a train. Her friend Charlie Chaplin considered her genius on par with Albert Einstein's and Winston Churchill's." - John Crossett, www.theaudiobeat.com, 4/5 Music, 4/5 Sound!
Features:
180g Vinyl
High Quality Pressing
Pure Audiophile Mastering
Musicians:
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Ferenc Fricsay, conductor
Clara Haskil, piano
Selections:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No. 19 in F Major
1. Allegro
2. Allegretto
3. Allegro assai
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat Major
4. Allegro
5. Larghetto
6. Allegro
Recorded September 1955 at Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, by Harald Baudis and May 1957 at Herkules Saal, Munich by Werner Wolf.
Audio Beat Rated 4/5 Music, 4/5 Sound!
Ferenc Fricsay conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring pianist Clara Haskil performing Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos. 19 and 27.
In spite of the varying degrees of popularity of Mozarts numerous piano concertos, no one would seriously consider ranking them by quality. It would certainly prove an impossible task, for each and every one of these intense yet often playful compositions could be considered the most perfect of its genre. In view of this, one should concentrate on each works highly individual character and this can hardly be more contrasting than in the present two pieces. Thanks to the joyous, energetic disposition of No. 19 in F major, K. 259, it appears to be filled with the exuberant spirit of Mozarts Viennese period a time when he amazed audiences with his dexterity at the keyboard. As a contrast, the mood of the late No. 27 in B flat major, K. 595, which was performed in a small circle, is introvert and mellow. The old adage that Mozarts final concerto was a gesture of farewell and filled with a premonition of death is certainly not substantiated by Haskil and Fricsays performance. Through the subtle and flowing clarity of her piano part under the tense and elastic opposition of the orchestra, the soloist banishes the question of the end of time into the background and so pays hommage to the relaxed and self-assured mastery of the Salzburg composer.
"This reissue gives us a glimpse of the purity of tone and the precise phrasing that were hallmarks of Clara Haskil's playing, a style lost too soon in 1965, when Haskil sustained critical injuries in a fall from a train. Her friend Charlie Chaplin considered her genius on par with Albert Einstein's and Winston Churchill's." - John Crossett, www.theaudiobeat.com, 4/5 Music, 4/5 Sound!
Features:
180g Vinyl
High Quality Pressing
Pure Audiophile Mastering
Musicians:
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Ferenc Fricsay, conductor
Clara Haskil, piano
Selections:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No. 19 in F Major
1. Allegro
2. Allegretto
3. Allegro assai
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat Major
4. Allegro
5. Larghetto
6. Allegro
Recorded September 1955 at Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, by Harald Baudis and May 1957 at Herkules Saal, Munich by Werner Wolf.
