Triple Cto/Double Cto

Product Details

Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0724356695429
Label : EMI
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1998-11-03
Running Time : 70minutes
UPC : 724356695429

ASIN : B00000I7VO

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Triple Concerto For Violin, Cello & Piano In C, Op. 56: I Allegro
2. Triple Concerto For Violin, Cello & Piano In C, Op. 56: II Largo
3. Triple Concerto For Violin, Cello & Piano In C, Op. 56: III Rondo alla polacca
4. Double Concerto For Violin & Cello In A Minor, Op. 102: I Allegro
5. Double Concerto For Violin & Cello In A Minor, Op. 102: II Andante
6. Double Concerto For Violin & Cello In A Minor, Op. 102: III Vivace non troppo

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Editorial Reviews

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Among the concertos of Beethoven and Brahms, these two have always been stepchildren. One reason is their extreme difficulty; both composers were pianists, so Beethoven wrote an idiomatic part only for the piano. Brahms's friend Joseph Joachim offered advice for the violin concerto, but not for the Double Concerto, which was written as a peace offering after a falling-out. The Beethoven Triple Concerto demands utmost virtuosity, as well as intimate teamwork among the soloists, and that is exactly what these three supreme masters of their instruments bring to it. Free--indeed unaware--of technical problems, they give it a joyful, sparkling lightness. The piano ripples, the cello sings gorgeously, the violin soars ecstatically, the tone is intoxicatingly beautiful. The Finale is wistful, charming, lyrical, gently humorous; the ending is a big joke, with the cello and piano rumbling in the bass, while the violin whistles forlornly in the dark until they all join together. The Brahms is grand, majestic, dreamy, radiant, triumphant; the slow movement warm as dark velvet, the Finale genial and relaxed. Though the orchestra never covers the soloists, it explodes in the tutti passages, especially in the Beethoven, so you might keep a finger on the volume control. --Edith Eisler

Customer Reviews

Three Russians for Beethoven perform a masterpiece! (2004-02-04)

This is the benchmark for the triple concerto, the main reason to buy this CD. Others have done a fine job, but the solidity, grace, power of persuasion and energy of this one are, in my view, unsurpassed. One of the pillars of my collection.

Compelling Concerto Trio Captivates (2003-11-07)

Just coming off hearing a live performance of Brahm's Double, I hoped this was as powerful, and to my delight it is. The violin and cello in this recording are very much voiced together, and their harmonies are breathtaking yet strong.

This is first for Beethoven's Triple, and I am captivated. The first movement is powerful, sweet yet building to that confident, robust finish. The rippling piano in the Largo is so wonderful a backdrop for the strings to soar around and over. Then it cascades ever so quickly into that glorious Rondo. Here Karajan and the Orchestra really surge and shine

This is certainly a candidate for essential of these two magnificent concertos.

The double concerto is the soul of the German Requiem (2003-08-08)

At the end of his life, Brahms composed his last concerto, his last symphonic work, as a testament, and we have to think of his German Requiem to understand it. The cello is the comforting voice of the mother that is preparing him for death. The violin is the weeping voice of the mother that is suffering the death she is witnessing. The orchestra is the violent and inhumane world that rolls over everything like a steamroller. Cello and violin are the call of the mother-earth, of the deeper life that comes from the fields, the forest, the mountains, even when the violin remembers Clara Schumann and becomes an echo of the waltzes in the salons, of the marvellous woman in her brilliant dress whirling around like the whirlwind that is trying to charm the composer into entering the danse macabre that this waltz becomes. But how can we evade the crushing world of industrial frenzy ? Is there any other way than escaping into the darkness of the forest, the sombreness of the vast marshes in the night, if your soul can capture the wings of some angel or bird, the wings of the violin that is teasing you with its air-free lightness, but even so can you get away from that waltzing salon ? The second movement takes you on some sea or ocean in some boat or ship that is crossing to some distant country. You can feel the movement of the waves. Or is a night full of flowing dreams ? The third movement takes you back to earth and light village dances, and then, after the harbor, the city explodes again and the violin weeps at a certain lost virginity, at the loss of life seen as the communion with the living universe, the cosmic flow of time and space. Here everything becomes chaotic. And we come back to a crushing world from which the composer tries to escape by getting down into his own soul, into the dialogue of his dual vision of the mother whose two sides are the violin and the cello, whose head is the violin and whose tail is the cello. But where can salvation be when you are chased by a frentic world ? Or is it possible to escape by joining this frenzy ? All solutions are tried and tested. But there is no way out except... The final measures are just crushing any attempt to escape and turning the escapee into powder under the hammering of the finale.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Perpignan

A wonderful version indeed!!! (2003-06-20)

I used to say that I hated the Triple Concerto until I bought this version! It's amazing what an interpretation can do to the opinion one has of a certain work!

Richter, Oistrakh and Rostropovich under the wise direction of Karajan make wonders in this recording. Who cares if it is true that Richter was never satisfied with it and wanted some of the movements to be recorded again. This recording proves the very high standard of all of these gifted musicians and the beauty of Beethoven's music, even if this concerto isn't as highly rated as some of his other works!

Besides all this, the coupling in this recording is also fantastic. Brahms' Double Concerto is played superbly by Oistrakh and Rostropovich under the direction of George Szell. I was quite happy with the newer version I had of this concerto (Kremer and Maisky under Bernstein), and although the sound is better in that version, the beauty and quality of this older one is unquestionable!

EMI's "Great Recordings of the Century" is without a doubt one of the best series of low priced classical music CDs in the market right now. I've bought many and have never been dissapointed!

The bests played together (2003-03-22)

Three greatest artists of 20th played together. The double and triple concertors are very very nice. Why you don't want to have it? This is one CD must listen.

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