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BEETHOVEN:CLASSIC ARCHIVE MURRAY PERA - DVD Movie
Classic Archive: Murray Perahia - Beethoven, the Complete Piano Concertos Reviews
Classic Archive: Murray Perahia - Beethoven, the Complete Piano Concertos Reviews
| 24 of 24 people found the following review helpful  Beethoven Concertos par excellence, By This review is from: Classic Archive: Murray Perahia - Beethoven, the Complete Piano Concertos (DVD) Murray Perahia has a wonderful performing manner in live performance- he is fully engaged and allows the music to flow through him with simple conviction. He is a musician whose pianism shows a thoughtfulness and refinement that always serves an expressive end. While possessing a virtuoso technique (his scales and arpeggios are so fluid and beautifully executed), he never draws attention to technical display or artistic indulgences that deviate from the score. This modern and rather objective interpretive philosophy contrasts with early recordings of 19th century virtuosi (Friedman, d'Albert, Huberman for example) whose sense of fantasy, imagination and lack of manufacture or exposure to mass-media produced artists of greater individuality. Like anything, we have lost something of this even if we have gained from a greater fidelity to musical text, appropriate performance practice and more perfect performances. However it is what happens between the notes where much of the mystery of... Read more 16 of 17 people found the following review helpful  Wonderful, but note a few production flaws, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Classic Archive: Murray Perahia - Beethoven, the Complete Piano Concertos (DVD) This review is primarily to call attention to an error in labeling, which is not Amazon's error, but a misleading indication on the product itself. These claim to be PCM Stereo recordings; but they are in fact 2-channel mono, which is to say that both channels are identical. I give five stars for the performances and for the fact that BBC & Medici Arts made these available, but only one or two stars for the production values. I am not weighing the latter too heavily because these are indeed fine performances.For anyone who may be interested, I will enumerate the deficiencies I found in the production of these DVDs. They are TV programs transferred to DVD, and I found a bit of a labeling problem associated with this: the source is referred to as "film," rather than videotape, while by the looks of things it is almost certainly the latter. Had these concerts been recorded on film, they could have been made into better DVDs; but as it is, these are no better than... Read more 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful Three Hours of Pure Pleasure, By This review is from: Classic Archive: Murray Perahia - Beethoven, the Complete Piano Concertos (DVD) I don't know whether this collection of 1988 concert performances of all the Beethoven piano concertos by Murray Perahia and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under Sir Neville Marriner was ever available on VHS, but I'm certainly glad it came along now on DVD. It was originally recorded for broadcast of BBC-TV -- can you imagine such a thing on American PBS? -- and is recorded in the sound and sight of the time. It has been remastered but there is still clear evidence aurally that it came from twenty years ago. And the Farrah Faucett hairdos and day-glo colors of the dresses of the female members of the ASMF are a hoot. But the performances themselves more than make up for any anachronisms or dated technical issues. Perahia is one of the true aristocrats of the piano and his playing is magnificent. His universally lauded beauty of tone is in evidence, but just as much is his obvious joy in the performance of this music, especially in the faster movements. I love how he swings... Read more |
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