Naxos
Schumann: Piano Concerto, Etc / Jandó
$13.99
Details
- Composer
- SCHUMANN
- Artist
- Jeno, Liget, Jandó
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Naxos
- Released
- Feb 22, 2005
- Catalog #
- 8557547
- UPC
- 747313254729
About
Given the popularity of Schumann’s A-Minor Piano Concerto, I’d be willing to wager there are readers out there who have amassed recordings of it in double-digit numbers. If you are one of them, you may already have this one in an earlier incarnation, for the performances on this disc are not new. The concerto comes from a 1988 Budapest production; the Introduction and Allegro appassionato, from a 1992 Belgian production; and the Introduction and Allegro, from a 1996 Polish production.
The current release, however, can be recommended for joining this trilogy of Schumann’s concerted works for piano and orchestra on a single disc. In fact, it is the identical program I praised to the heavens in a review of an MDG DVD-A with Christian Zacharias. If you heeded my advice and acquired that disc, the present Naxos recording, and all others, for that matter, are superfluous. Nonetheless, Jenö Jandó, who has become a well-known Naxos commodity, is a very fine pianist whose playing here is technically flawless and interpretively orthodox. Translation? You can’t go wrong.
One minor editorial correction: the note states that Schumann’s two single-movement concert pieces for piano and orchestra, coupled here with the concerto, are his only other works for this combination. Not so. In 1839, he wrote a Konzertsatz in D Minor for piano and orchestra that predates the works on this program. There is a recording of it on a Koch International Classics CD.
Jerry Dubins, FANFARE
The current release, however, can be recommended for joining this trilogy of Schumann’s concerted works for piano and orchestra on a single disc. In fact, it is the identical program I praised to the heavens in a review of an MDG DVD-A with Christian Zacharias. If you heeded my advice and acquired that disc, the present Naxos recording, and all others, for that matter, are superfluous. Nonetheless, Jenö Jandó, who has become a well-known Naxos commodity, is a very fine pianist whose playing here is technically flawless and interpretively orthodox. Translation? You can’t go wrong.
One minor editorial correction: the note states that Schumann’s two single-movement concert pieces for piano and orchestra, coupled here with the concerto, are his only other works for this combination. Not so. In 1839, he wrote a Konzertsatz in D Minor for piano and orchestra that predates the works on this program. There is a recording of it on a Koch International Classics CD.
Jerry Dubins, FANFARE
Tracklist 4 tracks
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1 I. Allegro affettuoso 14:06
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Allegro affettuoso
- Duration
- 14:06
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Performer
- Jenő Jandó
- Ensemble
- Budapest Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- András Ligeti
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2 II. Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso - III. Allegro vivace 16:15
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso - III. Allegro vivace
- Duration
- 16:15
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Performer
- Jenő Jandó
- Ensemble
- Budapest Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- András Ligeti
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3 Introduction and Allegro appassionato, Op. 92 14:21
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Introduction and Allegro appassionato, Op. 92
- Duration
- 14:21
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Performer
- Jenő Jandó
- Ensemble
- Brussels Philharmonic
- Conductor
- Ali Rahbari
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4 Introduction and Concert-Allegro, Op. 134 14:45
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Introduction and Concert-Allegro, Op. 134
- Duration
- 14:45
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Performer
- Jenő Jandó
- Ensemble
- Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Antoni Wit