Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 on record

[akiralx]

As no-one want to recommend a version recorded in the last 20 years, I will throw in Freire/Chailly...

[Hornspieler]

Strange that nobody has mentioned Emanuel Ax.

When I criticised his performances of both Brahms concertos on the Proms a couple of years ago, abuse was hurled at me from all quarters.

Has he not recorded these concertos?

HS

[akiralx]

Strange that nobody has mentioned Emanuel Ax.

When I criticised his performances of both Brahms concertos on the Proms a couple of years ago, abuse was hurled at me from all quarters.

Has he not recorded these concertos?

HS

No. 2 with Boston SO/Haitink. Also an earlier recording with Chicago SO/Levine?

[cloughie]

Strange that nobody has mentioned Emanuel Ax.

When I criticised his performances of both Brahms concertos on the Proms a couple of years ago, abuse was hurled at me from all quarters.

Has he not recorded these concertos?

HS

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brahms-Concertos-Rapsodies-Intermezzos-Pieces/dp/B000KX0I4K/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1396256413&sr=1-3&keywords=Ax+Brahms

Looks like with Uncle Bernie in Boston - not heard it but I have his No1 in a Brahms Levine box.

[gurnemanz]

My LP version which still lurks in the garage was Ashkenazy and Mehta with LSO from 1967.

I seem to have acquired a quite few CD versions some coincidentally via box sets but none there I would want to be without:

Arturo Toscanini & Vladimir Horowitz
Karl Böhm & Wilhelm Backhaus
Otto Klemperer & Geza Anda
Eugen Jochum & Emil Gilels
Charles Munch & Artur Rubinstein - Boston
Issay Dobrowen & Solomon

+ Wolfgang Sawallisch & Stephen Kovacevich which I inherited from my father. It is excellent and interestingly coupled with five songs sung by Ann Murray, including the moving and melancholy "Immer leise wird mein Schlummer". This beautiful song has the same melody as the concerto's Andante and I can't hear this movement without thinking of the song of a woman thinking of her lover as she lies dying and uttering the poignant thought that: another woman will be kissing you when I am pale and cold

[BBMmk2]

Richter and Leinsdorf I recommend BBM to anyone who loves Gilels/Jochum.

thanks Cali and Barbs. I will investigate!

[Gordon]

A brand new CD of Pollini with Dresden/Thielemans playing Brahms 2 live has just been issued, literally today. See Presto web site:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/DG/4792384

Note download available for £8.88.

[akiralx]

A brand new CD of Pollini with Dresden/Thielemans playing Brahms 2 live has just been issued, literally today. See Presto web site:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/DG/4792384

Note download available for £8.88.

I will give it a miss if anything like their version of the D minor...

[amateur51]

Strange that nobody has mentioned Emanuel Ax.

When I criticised his performances of both Brahms concertos on the Proms a couple of years ago, abuse was hurled at me from all quarters.

Has he not recorded these concertos?

HS

Perhaps it was the way you said HS?

It usually is

[Barbirollians]

A review of the Pollini in Gramophone that is keener on him than Thielemann's conducting . Does not sound like an essential purchase .

[cloughie]

Perhaps it was the way you said HS?

It usually is

Or the way he Axed it?

[richardfinegold]

I just listened to Gina Bachauer play the second as part of the large Mercury Box set. Hugely enjoyable, even if it won't displace any favorites

[jayne lee wilson]

Why not take a break from Brahms and try Reger's Piano Concerto in F Minor, written as a homage (or an hommage...) to Brahms? Even if you can't cope with the outer movements (it seems few can...) you'll discover a Largo con Gran Espessione that'll make you catch your breath with its meditative and sublime character. A lovely, re-creative, light-filled acount of it can be found in:

Max Reger Orchestral Music
Norrkoping SO/Leif Segerstam, Love Derwinger (Piano), 3 CDs, BIS 2013, rec. 1993-6

Hope to say more about this wonderful set elsewhere, but if you love the Suite im Alten Stil, just buy it NOW. Astonishment awaits...

[richardfinegold]

Why not take a break from Brahms and try Reger's Piano Concerto in F Minor, written as a homage (or an hommage...) to Brahms? Even if you can't cope with the outer movements (it seems few can...) you'll discover a Largo con Gran Espessione that'll make you catch your breath with its meditative and sublime character. A lovely, re-creative, light-filled acount of it can be found in:

Max Reger Orchestral Music
Norrkoping SO/Leif Segerstam, Love Derwinger (Piano), 3 CDs, BIS 2013, rec. 1993-6




Hope to say more about this wonderful set elsewhere, but if you love the Suite im Alten Stil, just buy it NOW. Astonishment awaits...

My encounters with Reger's music have not been happy ones.

[BBMmk2]

Why not take a break from Brahms and try Reger's Piano Concerto in F Minor, written as a homage (or an hommage...) to Brahms? Even if you can't cope with the outer movements (it seems few can...) you'll discover a Largo con Gran Espessione that'll make you catch your breath with its meditative and sublime character. A lovely, re-creative, light-filled acount of it can be found in:

Max Reger Orchestral Music
Norrkoping SO/Leif Segerstam, Love Derwinger (Piano), 3 CDs, BIS 2013, rec. 1993-6

Hope to say more about this wonderful set elsewhere, but if you love the Suite im Alten Stil, just buy it NOW. Astonishment awaits...

great to see you again JLW Been much missed! Back on topic, thank you JLW for the thumbs up! :)