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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4
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Average customer review:
Barry Douglas's performance with Camerata Ireland is a wonderful piece of work in every respect. The recording is detailed and clean. The playing is excellent, and Douglas' interpretations are a marvel of musical freedom of expression.
Track Listing
- Allegro Con Brio
- Adagio
- Allegro Moderato
- Andante Con Moto
- Rondo: Vivace
- Not Listed
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #338141 in Music
- Released on: 2005-10-31
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .16 pounds
- Running time: 62 minutes
Customer Reviews
Barry Douglas/Camerata Ireland
I think Barry Douglas plays with a beautiful sound (which the recording captures to a wonderful degree), with spontaneous and elegant phrasing and interest in each and every key transition point and in command of the music's power to an extent that even listeners, like myself who know these two concertos well, will find new excitement.
As just one example, after a poetic introductory few bars at the opening of the Fourth Concerto, the violins sweetly and totally with the pianist, play their answer so clearly, that you could write out the score from their performance.
The piano sound is brilliant, becoming spectacularly beautiful at high volumes. The orchestra also is recorded well and manages to project its power and instrumental detail which is particularly outstanding in the woodwinds, brass, timpani and in the low strings.
An outstanding new recording.
Barry Bouglas/Camerata Ireland
I feel Barry Douglas plays with a beautiful sound (which the recording captures to a wonderful degree), with spontaneous and elegant phrasing and interest in each and every key transition point and in command of the music's power to an extent that even listeners, like myself who know these two concertos well, will find new excitement.
As just one example, after a poetic introductory few bars at the opening of the Fourth Concerto, the violins sweetly and totally with the pianist, play their answer so clearly, that you could write out the score from their performance.
The piano sound is brilliant, becoming spectacularly beautiful at high volumes. The orchestra also is recorded well and manages to project its power and instrumental detail which is particularly outstanding in the woodwinds, brass, timpani and in the low strings.
An outstanding new recording.
The Gramophone said
“Barry Douglas;s version ….. acknowledges the authentic school only fleetingly, in that his Camerata Ireland – a well groomed gathering of Ireland’s best – keep the textural calories down to a minimum.”
“There are aspects of his (Douglas's) performance that really made me smile: for example at 9.33 of the first movement, where melody line and accompanying ornaments are so beautifully brought out , their role changing places afterwards. ….. One imagines that Berezovsky has taken himself off with the score, studied it and come back knowing exactly what he wants, whereas Douglas sounds as if he has slept with the score and woken up loving it. There’s a simple expressive logic about his playing ….. Try from 3.20 where line and harmony are in perfect accord , or the unruffled calm of the Second Concerto’s slow movement another fine performance , assertive but always consistently balanced. Camerata Ireland play well, more pristinely among the winds than the strings perhaps, but with ample character. Berzovsky uses Beethoven’s best know cadenza, Douglas its rarer more harmonically daring option.
