Johannes Brahms – Wiener Philharmoniker, Krystian Zimerman · Leonard Bernstein – Klavierkonzert - Piano Concert No. 1 / LaserDisc CD Video 1984

UPC 04400722071 

!!! CONDITION OF DISC IS USED - VERY GOOD !!!

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 111 MINUTES  

PRINTED IN WESR GERMANY  

NTSC

Laser disc: a disc resembling a larger CD but able to store video, now generally replaced by the DVD.

Crowning the very summit of the piano concerto literature are the two examples by Brahms, posing as stern a test of technique, temperament and poetic feeling to the interpreter now as they did when they were composed over a century and a half ago. The urgent, impulsive drama of the First, which propelled Brahms into international standing as a performer as well as a composer, was answered more than 20 years later by the more spaciously conceived Second, often more light-hearted in character yet making even more strenuous demands upon its performers as a fully symphonic concerto.

Elder and the Hallé provide a dramatic orchestral introduction to commence the massive and dramatic first movement, Maestoso. It just pulsates with drama. One immediately notices how decisively Kim strikes the keys and everything is shaped with clarity and immediacy. The glorious lyrical theme with Kim’s playing alone is near spine-tingling, so introspective.

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