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Ludwig van Beethoven, Martin Turnovsky, Vienna Musikverein Orchestra
Ivan Moravec Plays Beethoven
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (6) - Disc #1
1. Pno Con No.4 In G, Op.58: Allegro moderato
2. Pno Con No.4 In G, Op.58: Andante con moto
3. Pno Con No.4 In G, Op.58: Rondo (Vivace)
4. Pno Son In e,Op.90: Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfinung und Ausdruck
5. Pno Son In e,Op.90: Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorzutregen
6. 32 Var On An Original Theme In c

CD Details

All Artists: Ludwig van Beethoven, Martin Turnovsky, Vienna Musikverein Orchestra, Ivan Moravec
Title: Ivan Moravec Plays Beethoven
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Video Artists Int'l
Original Release Date: 1/1/1992
Re-Release Date: 9/6/1994
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Concertos, Sonatas, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Instruments, Keyboard
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 089948102120

Synopsis

Amazon.com

The Concerto is one of the recordings that made Ivan Moravec's reputation as a great pianist. It's just as impressive-sounding today. Moravec and the excellent Martin Turnovsky seem to have given this great music an intense reexamination. They play it with attention to every detail, making it sound as though it were a new piece. Frequently you will hear details pointed out in illuminating ways, but never at the expense of musical continuity. This performance is a revelation. Although Moravec's conception of the Variations is a bit outsize, his playing of the solo works is equally convincing. The mid-60s recordings sound excellent. --Leslie Gerber

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CD Reviews

Great Beethoven concerto

02/09/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I'm amazed no one else at Amazon has reviewed this wonderful recording. Moravec's performance of Beethoven's fourth concerto is simply one of the best. I have owned the Connoisseur Society's LP version for many years. It's a record I truly cherish. Moravec's playing is outstanding. His interpretation of the fourth concerto has both beauty and spiritual depth. This is a recording you will not forget."

Sublime, transporting and enlightened!! :D

yuka michitaka | New york, NY USA | 08/09/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"No matter what Mr Moravec plays, he is simply astonishing - but the 4th concerto is simply to die for. From the famously impossible and elusive first chord, the balancing and color is exquisite. he continues with the often-dryly-played opening using various degrees of the tre corde, masterfully blending the colors and preparing for the orchestra's awesome "common-tone" modulation. needless to say, his second movement is unparelled; he collaborates WITH the orchestra in order to convey the ageless saga of "The Man (solo piano) vs. the World (orch.)". The third movement is a triumphant jubilation, but he manages to play it with elegance (unlike many of the other comercially recorded artists, who exaggerate the Forte markings and running notes passages to the point where it begins to get vulgar.) although this piece requires a highly sophisticated degree of digital agility, he never exploits these opportunities, and is faithful to the effects the composer is trying to convey through his markings; he truly a "virtuoso" in the original sense."