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Wilhelm Backhaus - Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Piano Pieces

SKU: 12608

Price:
AU $13.59

Label: Decca Cat. No.: 480 0800 Medium: CD No. Discs: 2

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As an eleven-year-old in 1895, Wilhelm Backhaus met and performed for D'Albert, Grieg, Nikisch and Brahms, among others. Here was a pianist who shunned hectoring gestures of the late Romantic era for economy and purposefulness. "His facial expression always remained steady, showing an unceasing concentration on the sounds his hands were coaxing from the instrument with such concentrated energy. Everything lay in the act of playing, just as the preoccupation of a great painter or sculptor would be not with technique as such, but with craftsmanship - that is, skill not as an end in itself, but as a vehicle for the idea - giving pleasure to those who were able to watch and hear how a true master would execute even difficult passages effortlessly," writes Walter Frei. This 2-CD set brings together Backhaus's recordings with Karl Bohm and the Vienna Philharmonic of the two Brahms Piano Concertos - the first recorded in 1953, the second in 1967 shortly after the pianist's 83rd birthday! They are coupled with a generous selection of the composer's piano pieces, performed with the same nobility and breadth.

A Decca Eloquence CD.

To be released 12 April 2008.

Artists:

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano).

Composers:

Brahms.

Conductors:

Karl Bohm.

Orchestras:

Wiener Philharmoniker.

Tracks:

JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)
CD 1
	Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
1 2 3	I II III	Maestoso - Poco piu moderato Adagio Rondo (Allegro non troppo)
4	Capriccio in B minor, Op. 76 No. 2
5	Intermezzo in E flat major, Op. 117 No. 1
6	Rhapsody in B minor, Op. 79 No. 1
7	Intermezzo in E major, Op. 116 No. 6
8	Intermezzo in E minor, Op. 119 No. 2
9	Intermezzo in C major, Op. 119 No. 3
CD 2
	Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83
1 2 3 4	I II III IV	Allegro non troppo Allegro appassionato Andante Emmanuel Brabec, solo cello Allegretto grazioso
	Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118
5 6 7 8 9 10	I II III IV V VI	Intermezzo in A minor Intermezzo in A major Ballade in G minor Intermezzo in F minor Romanze in F major Intermezzo in E flat minor
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) Wiener Philharmoniker Karl Bohm
CD 1 [1]-[3] MONO RECORDING