Piano Concerti 1-3

Bartok (Artist), Fischer (Artist), Sandor (Artist), Hubgarian State Orch (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 14, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000002700
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #253,458 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Concerto No. 1 For Piano & Orchestra: Allegro moderato; Allegro

2. Concerto No. 1 For Piano & Orchestra: Andante

3. Concerto No. 1 For Piano & Orchestra: Allegro molto

4. Concerto No. 1 For Piano & Orchestra: Allegro

5. Concerto No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Adagio; Presto; Adagio

6. Concerto No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Allegro molto

7. Concerto No. 3 For Piano & Orchestra: Allegretto

8. Concerto No. 3 For Piano & Orchestra: Adagio religioso

9. Concerto No. 3 For Piano & Orchestra: Allegro vivace

Editorial Reviews

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György Sándor gave the world premiere of this concerto in 1946, just a few months after Bartök's death. His deep knowledge of the composer's works and special insights into the style make this account indispensable, even if it is not as brilliantly played as some. The pianist is quite free with rhythm and accent in his approach, conveying not the dreamlike, otherworldly atmosphere more than a few interpreters have found in the piece, but something very much of the moment and of this world. There is an astringent joy to the performance that is both refreshing and quite in keeping with the mood of the composer's other essays from the last years of his life. Ádám Fischer and the Hungarian State Orchestra do a superb job on their end, and the recording, while slightly distant and diffuse, is well balanced and satisfying. --Ted Libbey

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In memoriam of Gyorgy Sandor (1912 / 2005), October 20, 2006

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This review is from: Piano Concerti 1-3 (Audio CD)

The generation of pianists who were born between 1870 and 1940, were gifted (apart of the basic technical training) of a wholeness of vision around the score to play. Many of them grew up and even had the privilege to meet and gather with the composers of those ages; the musical nationalism was disseminated through Europe and molded in good measure the musical evolution in emerging musical potencies. According your temperament you might choose the right place to culminate your formation.

In the particular case of Hungary, the figure of Bela Bartok was an inspiration's source for many other composers in the rest of Europe. If Stravinsky and Prokoviev inflamed the Dionysian imagination through his amazing ballets, Debussy, Ravel and Respighi notably contributed to nourish the spectral sounds through the musical Impressionism; but Bartok had in Gyorgy Sandor not only a voice but an effective presence in the international stages.

The egregious pianism of Sandor emerged then from a particular necessity to express those dark dissonances and refulgent canvas of lights and shades that illustrate the essential core of the Hungarian Folk music.

Sandor left us on December 9th, 2005, but to my mind his powerful presence will be enhancing exponentially day after day. How I would wish our actual generation of pianists thought and felt the played material, and not a simple set of efficient machine players without soul and nothing to say.

This set is absolutely a gem, but the final product of a human being who made of Bartok his own flag along his lifetime.

In memoriam!