Christoph Eschenbach - Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 23 & 27 (1987) Hi-Res
BAND/ARTIST: Christoph Eschenbach
- Title: Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 23 & 27
- Year Of Release: 1987
- Label: HDTT
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: FLAC (*tracks) | 24 Bit/192 kHz
- Total Time: 01:00:21
- Total Size: 2,2 GB (+3%rec.)
- WebSite: Album Preview
Ever since his victory at the Clara Haskil Competition and the debut of his first commercial recording (1964) for DGG, pianist-conductor Christoph Eschenbach (b. 1940) has remained a force in music, his having led distinguished ensembles in Zurich, Hamburg, Ravinia, Chicago, Houston, Paris, and Philadelphia. Eschenbach was music director of the Houston Symphony from 1988 to 1999. He achieved recognition for having enhanced the symphony both in terms of national and international prominence and well as musical quality. The orchestra toured Japan and Europe under his tenure as well made several recordings with Koch International Classics and RCA. Eschenbach's era was marked by a strong relationship with the musicians, who admired him on and off the stage. Members of the orchestra testified to his personality as one which “inspired absolute loyalty.”
Conducting from the keyboard, Eschenbach extends a tradition traceable to Mozart himself and to acolytes such as Edwin Fischer and Andras Schiff. The Houston Symphony, somewhat reduced in size, projects a fervent, warm sound, quite buoyant in the A Major Concerto (1786), Eschenbach’s filigree alternately poetically liquid and martially brilliant, the balance between strict formal architecture and improvisatory spontaneity perfectly maintained. The Adagio movement, Mozart’s only excursion into the key of F-sharp Minor, finds Eschenbach and ensemble poignant and affecting, the
solo part’s spinning a fabulous aria of tragic melancholy. The vivacious Rondo in A contains several buffa moments, which Eschenbach and his Houston players exploit with facile brio, the piano and orchestra seeming to compete for the luminous aura of affectionate bubbles of musical champagne.
Tracks:
Piano Concerto No. 23
1) Allegro in A major 11:41
2) Adagio in F-sharp minor 7:52
3) Allegro assai in A 8:09
Piano Concerto No. 27
4) Allegro 14:11
5) Larghetto in E-flat major 9:01
6) Allegro 9:25
Personnel:
Christoph Eschenbach (piano and conductor)
Houston Symphony Orchestra
Conducting from the keyboard, Eschenbach extends a tradition traceable to Mozart himself and to acolytes such as Edwin Fischer and Andras Schiff. The Houston Symphony, somewhat reduced in size, projects a fervent, warm sound, quite buoyant in the A Major Concerto (1786), Eschenbach’s filigree alternately poetically liquid and martially brilliant, the balance between strict formal architecture and improvisatory spontaneity perfectly maintained. The Adagio movement, Mozart’s only excursion into the key of F-sharp Minor, finds Eschenbach and ensemble poignant and affecting, the
solo part’s spinning a fabulous aria of tragic melancholy. The vivacious Rondo in A contains several buffa moments, which Eschenbach and his Houston players exploit with facile brio, the piano and orchestra seeming to compete for the luminous aura of affectionate bubbles of musical champagne.
Tracks:
Piano Concerto No. 23
1) Allegro in A major 11:41
2) Adagio in F-sharp minor 7:52
3) Allegro assai in A 8:09
Piano Concerto No. 27
4) Allegro 14:11
5) Larghetto in E-flat major 9:01
6) Allegro 9:25
Personnel:
Christoph Eschenbach (piano and conductor)
Houston Symphony Orchestra
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