Radio Days (2cd) / Nelson Freire

Nelson Freire

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Reinhard Peters Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S125 Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Eleazar de Carvalho Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major, Op. 10 Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Yuri Ahronovitch Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, David Zinman Schumann: Introduction and Allegro Op. 134 Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Reinhard Peters Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF, Kurt Masur

To celebrate Nelson Freire’s 70th Birthday (18th October), this special 2CD collection presents concerto repertoire that is not currently in Nelson’s Decca catalogue. This collection brings these very good radio broadcasts together for the first time on CD. Decca has mined the archives of radio stations in France, Germany and the Netherlands to create a double-album of recordings made at the beginning of his career in Europe during Freire’s twenties and early thirties: the years when he was described by the press as a “young lion of the keyboard”. This collection brings these outstanding remastered radio broadcasts together for the first time internationally on any format. We hear performances of key pillars of piano concerto repertoire with leading conductors such as Masur and Zinman. This album will be simultaneously released with Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 & Sonata Op.111 in September, followed by a Chopin album including Piano Concerto No.2 and other solo gems in January 2015.

Price: $16.98