Product Name : Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1/Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2
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Product Review : Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1/Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2
| 163 of 165 people found the following review helpful  Cliburn: Top Tchaikovsky Concerto Recording on Disk, By Michael A Pahre (Cambridge, MA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1/Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2 (Audio CD) Van Cliburn's prize winning performance in the Tchaikovsky competition was with the Rachmaninoff 3rd piano concerto and the Tchaikovsky first concerto (the latter is on this disk). Taking Russian music to the heart of Russia for a piano competition was one bold move! Upon his triumphal return to the United States, the Carnegie Hall concert (with conductor Kiril Kondrashin flown in from the USSR just for this event) and this subsequent recording were put together hastily in order to preserve the moment for history. And what a recording it is!I have listened to over thirty recordings of the Tchaikovsky first piano concerto, and two stand out: Gary Graffman (with Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra) and this Cliburn recording. He has all the piano technique for total mastery of this work---rapid and precise octaves, nimble fingerwork (particularly the presto middle section of the 2nd movement), a big sound (the opening allegro non troppo section), and a strong sense... Read more 105 of 111 people found the following review helpful This CD captures a vital musical and cultural moment, By This review is from: Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1/Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2 (Audio CD) I wasn't even born when Cliburn took the world by storm, winning the Tchaikovsky competition in the Soviet Union. But the legend still lived on when I was taking piano lessons at the age of nine. While I was growing up, listening to any Cliburn recording conjured up the swell of pride that our nation felt about him, and that extra-musical element added to the joy of his music-making.We often focus on Cliburn's victory in the Soviet Union as a uniquely American victory. A lanky Texan walked into the Soviet Union, our Cold War enemy, and played Russian music to a severely discerning Russian audience, completely bowling them over. Khrushchev had to give permission to the judges to give Cliburn the Gold Medal because it represented such an embarassment to the Soviet Union to have their pianists lose to an American. In truth, it was also a victory for the Russians. To find that their music could be played with such understanding and depth by a young man so culturally and... Read more 38 of 42 people found the following review helpful Van Cliburn: One of a kind pianist., By A Customer This review is from: Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1/Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2 (Audio CD) This is an excellent recording and terrific playing of great music.Last September, I saw this man play with the University of Iowa symphony orchestra the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 and I was simply amazed. I was hoping the historic recording he made would be as good as the his terrific performance of the concerto......It found out it was. This is the concerto that made Cliburn known throughout the world if you ask me. If he hadn't have played this terrific concerto back in 1958 in the Tchaikovsky competition (which he won by the way), he would probably not have been as famous as he is. So, you should definitely here this magnificant pianist play the song that made who he is today. Plus, the concerto itself is so great anyway. Right when you hear Cliburn smashing away the chords to open the beautiful melody of the concerto, you'll be locked into it. Seriously. Now onto Rachmaninoff. Possibly the greatest pianist of the 20th century (i think he is anyway). There is a great... Read more |
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