Beethoven: Piano Concertos, Vol.1 / Diluka
Label: Mirare Catalog: MIR126 Format: CD Shani Diluka, piano; Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine; Kwamé Ryan, conductorLudwig van Beethoven All great minds possess a relationship with space-time. Beethoven belongs to the category of the timeless and the universal. He manages in his music to establish the core of each of our existences. The core of mine derives from the 'German'masters I have come to know along my way, over many years now: Fleisher the pupil of Schnabel; Marie-Françoise Bucquet the pupil of Kempff; Perahia and Schenker; Valentin Erben of the Alban Berg Quartet - all rooted in the great tradition of and respect for this noble "Goethean" culture. This extends even to my choice of piano: a Bechstein, in homage to the profound and luminous sound of the mythic recordings by Fischer and Kempff (I play the latter's rarely heard cadenzas). All of this serves to reveal this nexus of tonalities brought to life by Prometheus' fire, these starry skies, and this vision of man that is so fragile and optimistic, particularly in the first two concertos (which we have chosen to place here in chronological order of composition)... Price: $24.98 |