Arrau: Brahms & Chopin — Piano Concertos (Live)

Claudio Arrau is the soloist in two live performances devoted to Johannes Brahms and Frédéric Chopin: Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in Moscow in 1968 with Gennady Rozhdestvensky and the USSR Television & Radio Grand Symphony Orchestra, and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 at Carnegie Hall in 1955 with George Szell and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

Two concertos, two periods of Arrau

The programme contrasts the symphonic scale of Brahms’s First Concerto with the lyrical and virtuosic writing of Chopin’s Second Concerto.

Tracklist

Johannes Brahms — Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15
01 — I. Maestoso
02 — II. Adagio
03 — III. Rondo. Allegro non troppo

Frédéric Chopin — Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21
04 — I. Maestoso
05 — II. Larghetto
06 — III. Allegro vivace

Credits

Composers: Johannes Brahms; Frédéric Chopin
Piano: Claudio Arrau
Brahms — conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Brahms — orchestra: USSR Television & Radio Grand Symphony Orchestra
Brahms — recording: Moscow Conservatory, Grand Hall, 31 May 1968 — Live
Chopin — conductor: George Szell
Chopin — orchestra: New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Chopin — recording: New York, Carnegie Hall, 9 January 1955 — Live
Edition: Capsa Symphōnĭa
Code: CS514

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