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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: The Chopin 2nd Concerto with Hamilton Harty posted by Poles Apart on October 28, 2011 at 13:28:27:
Yes, the referenced M&A disc also contains a 1943 live Beethoven PC 3 with Rubinstein and the NYPO under Ormandy.
I was not pleased with what I heard there in the first two thirds of the Allegro. Both soloist and orchestra go separate ways, or rather stay out of each others' way, to make an oddly disjointed overall impression. I began to yearn for the coherence and discipline of Rubinstein/Leinsdorf, long my favorite in this work.
But then comes the first movement cadenza (Beethoven's), and things change. Rubinstein attacks it fearlessly, shifting mood from Chopinian salon back to Beethoven in his modest Viennese digs. whaling away like a half-deaf lion at the keyboard. At solo's end the orchestra comes in softly and sweetly, only to give the following final chords a huge whallop with plenty of help from the piano.
The slow movement is played with tenderness and great love, while the finale rocks, with Ormandy showing signs of the "grand orchestra" approach he would take in Philadelphia's later years, but at a much faster tempo and with greater rhythmic freedom and emphasis.
The crowd, once again, goes wild.
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