Artist: Charles Mackerras / Artur Pizarro / Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Title Of Album: Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 5
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: Linn Records
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (Tracks)
Bitrate: Lossless {24bit/192kHz}
Time: 00:35:48 min
Total Size: 3,7 Gb
BBC Music Magazine
These performances, made in Perth (Scotland) Town Hall last November, strike me as attractive but under-characterised. Take the opening movement of the Third Concerto, one of Beethoven's great C minor movements. It is marked ‘Allegro con brio', but with its obvious indebtedness to Mozart's concerto in the same key, K491, it needs to be both menacing and stealthy, and, a little later, fierce. Nothing that Mackerras conducts ever sounds placid, but this does come dangerously close to that. And while Artur Pizarro makes a fine partner for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, he does seem to want to keep things on a conversational rather than combative level. This works far better in the sublime slow movement, which floats serenely past precisely as it should. The last movement is playful and full of suprises, but again I would have expected more asperity from the orchestra.
The Fourth Concertos, that elusive, quietly intense work, again sounds a little workaday. The first movement's second subject, which should have an underlying tragic quality, is deprived of any ambiguity. The orchestra is not aggressive enough in the slow movement, so it's easily tamed by the soloist. It's in the Emperor Concerto that everyone seems to enjoy themselves most, though I could do with more muscle power for the last movement than Pizarro commands. Throughout, the recorded sound is ideal.
01 - Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37 - Allegro con brio (1)
02 - Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37 - Largo
03 - Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37 - Rondo allegro
04 - Piano Concerto No 4 in G major Op 58 - Allegro moderato
05 - Piano Concerto No 4 in G major Op 58 - Andante con moto
06 - Piano Concerto No 4 in G major Op 58 -Rondo vivace
07 - Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major Op 73 Emperor - Allegro (1)
08 - Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major Op 73 Emperor - Adagio un poco mosso
09 - Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major Op 73 Emperor - Rondo Allegro ma non troppo
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