Piano Concerto No 2 in B-Flat Op 83

Brahms (Artist), Ousset (Artist), Masur (Artist), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 27, 2001)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Berlin Classics
• ASIN: B000024Y2C
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,176,241 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Competent but really nothing special, October 31, 2001

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sphaerenklang "stringph - at - gmail" (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Piano Concerto No 2 in B-Flat Op 83 (Audio CD)

This is just another recording of a classic work of the kind that record companies churn out every year. Obviously there are no big mistakes by either soloist or conductor, and the recorded sound is decent, but nobody seems to have anything special to say about ithe music and I don't remember any moments which distinguish this recording from dozens of others, either for rhythm, tone quality or expression. I sold this CD to a second hand store.

Recommendations for this work include Fleisher/Szell, Serkin/Szell, Buchbinder/Harnoncourt (available at midprice), and I have an energetic and involving performance with Backhaus and (I think) Szell on LP (could be Backhaus/Bohm).