Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de l’Oural, Dmitri Liss
This must be one of the fastest Brahms Second Concertos on disc...Some of it is, perhaps, just too impetuous but how thrilling it is to hear the music taken by the scruff of the neck and handled...
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de l’Oural, Dmitri Liss
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This must be one of the fastest Brahms Second Concertos on disc...Some of it is, perhaps, just too impetuous but how thrilling it is to hear the music taken by the scruff of the neck and handled...
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Brahms's exhilarating Second Concerto is a sweeping epic combining Classical nobility and Romantic fire. With the same joy, the Variations on a Theme of Paganini and the Hungarian Dances demonstrate that Brahms was the last great master of the Romantic piano.
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June 2011
This must be one of the fastest Brahms Second Concertos on disc...Some of it is, perhaps, just too impetuous but how thrilling it is to hear the music taken by the scruff of the neck and handled so imperiously. Liss and his players catch the spirit of the maverick soloist...There has been a trend over the past few decades to adopt ever more solemn tempos for the great concertos warhorses. Berezovsky reverses the trend.
June 2011
This is the concerto as a high-octane virtuoso number.
April 2011
Boris Berezovsky's opening salvo is exactly that, dazzling in its own way...His is a physical approach, an athletic dash through the first movement, which lacks repose at crucial moments but is appealingly exciting.
