keith jarrett vienna concert transcription

I really like the difference in sound and transparency one gets from the historically informed approach and instruments. I’d say yes (and I did purchase the album). To complement that, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is also clearly historically informed, playing on gut strings. It has a quite different sound to the typical modern Steinway, less heavy, less brilliant, but more transparent. 1 year after the writing of Brahms first concerto.

Brahms: The Piano Concertos- András Schiff – Orchestra of the Age of Enlightening (ECM 2021) That is the piano that Schiff uses in this new recording. So why would even a Brahms aficionado like me bother to buy one more recording of these? 1 was with András Schiff as well, with George Solti on a 1989 Decca album. 2) recordings by Lars Vogt with the Northern Sinfonia (that I just noticed I totally forgot to review here).Īnd as a nice coincidence, the very first recording I ever owned of No. One of my favorite sets is the Nelson Freire / Riccardo Chailly / Gewandhaus one from 2006, or more recently, the excellent (No. There also have been a lot of more recent recordings that are outstanding.

There are many masterful recordings from the 1960s with the great piano legends, Curzon, Arrau, Fleischer, Richter, or Gilels, often with the fantastic George Szell, that have stood the test of time, as the romantic repertoire has seen less of a sea change of recording style as have earlier composers (I can’t really enjoy non-HIP Bach concertos any more for example). There is clearly no lack of excellent performances of the two Brahms piano concertos.

You can find the regular Ondine recording here (Qobuz), or go here (Prestomusic) if you prefer the 2xHD remaster Gramophone agrees by the way, this was their “record of the month”.Īs a side note, for the audiophiles among my readers, the label 2xHD has applied their remastering voodoo (a lot of Nagra and other stuff), making the excellent Ondine sound even more smooth. You can hear the passion and love both artists have for these works. The sound overall is a bit broader, more “romantic”, than the (still excellent) reading of Faust and Melnikov, with broad vibrato, and a lot of rubato. Well, this is as close to perfection as you can get with modern instruments. Well, to make it short, very well indeed.įirst of all, as opposed to Melnikov’s fortepiano, you get a modern concert grand (presumably a Steinway, couldn’t find any information in the booklet). So how does the duo Tetzlaff/Vogt compare to the dream team Faust/Melnikov? Brahms: The Violin Sonatas – Christian Tetzlaff – Lars Vogt (Ondine 2016) My modern reference recording so far is (obviously) Isabelle Faust, as reviewed here. 2 only much later, it seems to be much less loved than the two other ones 1 and 3 were among the earliest works I owned on CD, in the great recording with Henryk Szerying and Anton Rubinstein. Brahms Violin Sonatasīrahms’ violin sonatas No. Tetzlaff and Vogt have been playing chamber music together for a long time, both in a duo setup as well as in a piano trio with Tetzlaff’s sister. I already had the pleasure of hearing Lars Vogt live, playing Beethoven’s 4th piano concerto with the Zurich Tonhalle under Paavo Järvi. I really appreciated his excellent recordings of the Brahms piano concertos with the Royal Northern Symphonia in the last 2 years (though I totally missed to formally review them here, will have to follow up on that). Lars Vogt I already followed for longer, he initially came to my attention with his beautiful recording of the Schumann and Grieg back in the Birmingham days of Simon Rattle. My first formal review of any of his albums was his 2020 recording of the Beethoven and Sibelius violin concertos with the DSO, which promptly made it into my Top 5 classical albums of 2020. There are so many talented female violinists out there, as a self-declared Isabelle Faust fanboy, and then there’s Janine Jansen, Alina Ibragimova, Vilde Frang, etc. I must admit I only discovered Christian Tetzlaff’s outstanding talent in the last two years.

Keith jarrett vienna concert transcription