Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 / R. Strauss: Burleske / Glenn Gould

Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Richard [1] Strauss (Composer), Karel Ancerl (Conductor), Vladimir Golschmann (Conductor), Toronto Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Glenn Gould (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Glenn Gould
• Orchestra: Toronto Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor: Karel Ancerl, Vladimir Golschmann
• Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard [1] Strauss
• Audio CD (June 27, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000028OG
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #279,451 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars GG does Strauss!..., July 16, 2006

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Sébastien Melmoth (Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 / R. Strauss: Burleske / Glenn Gould (Audio CD)

The real star here is Strauss' Burleske. It's something like Lizst's first piano concerto: a portmanteau one-movement piece comprised of contrasting episodes. Strauss' piece has the humorous vein of Til Eulenspegiel's Merry Pranks. Gould sounds great, and it's really a wonderful realization of a rarity. Quite a substantial piece, it runs about 24 mins.

The Beethoven is okay. GG plays it very "straightly"--so much so, in fact, that Bazzana dispairages it as "conventional": faint praise indeed. Recorded in 1970 for CBC TV, the orchestra sounds very flat and two-dimentional; Gould's piano, however, sounds okay.

It's just such a damned shame that the recorded sound of GG's radical realization of Brahms' first concerto with Bernstein (1962) is too bad to tolerate, for Gould's performance was truly exquisite and superb.

As mentioned, this disc is worth having for GG's Strauss.