Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos
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A great Mendelssohn album
Yet another great recording from Murray Perahia and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields! This recording has really helped me in preparing to perform one of the Mendelssohn concertos myself; great sound quality on the actual recording as well as the superb technique exhibited makes this album one of my favorites!
Very fine readings, but this music needs more help
Perahia plays the two Mendelssohn concertos at face value. The sparkling allegros and prestos fly by with elegant, brilliant ease. Perahia seems to believe in this music as light-hearted post-Mozart without Mozart's poignancy, and therefore he doesn't interpret it very personally. The accompaniments from the ASMF orchestra are suitably discreet and small-scaled. The other reviewers here are totally satisifed, but if you turn to Rudolf Serkin's account of Concerto #1 (Sony), his joyous ebullience is combined with virtuosic attack, and frainkly, Mendelssohn's concertos need that extra attention. Taken at face value, they contain too many routine, repetitive stretches to hold a listener's undivided attention, particularly in the bland slow movements, which barely rise above prettiness. Perahia's discreet delicacy is well and good, but Serkin wants to win the listener over, to make a stronger case than these pieces can on their own.
A great CD
This is a wonderful CD, with some beautiful music played sensitively and with eloquence.
The 2nd Piano Concerto would make my list of "underappreciated classical works." It's very attractive and just plain touching; I believe the best word to describe the 2nd movt. is "limpid." . Perahia and the orchestra produce a simply beautiful sound for the 2nd and 3rd mvts, which for me are the heart of the work. The 2nd Concerto is for me a far better work than the patchy and frequently uninteresting 1st Concerto, which for some reason is better known.
The solo works are outstanding. Let's start with the Prelude & Fugue in e minor. I initially knew this work from Julius Katchen's unattractive and mediocre performance and never paid it much heed. Perahia's exciting performance made me completely perk up and led me to love the work. Perahia brings out the dynamism and drama of this work, which reinterprets the Baroque form to infuse it with Romantic emotionalism. If you've never heard this piece, you must hear Perahia's performance. The interpretations of the fine Variations serieuses and Rondo are excellent.
This is an outstanding disk and I think one of Perahia's finest achievements.
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