Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15

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Pollini plays with tremendous authority and passion...It's a magisterial interpretation...Yet if anything it's Thielemann's contribution that's more remarkable...his command of the orchestra... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Oct 2011
Catalogue No: 4779882
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 45 minutes

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15

Work length45:29

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Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Staatskapelle Dresden
Christian Thielemann
Recorded: 2011-06-11
Recording Venue: Semperoper, Dresden

1. Maestoso - Poco più moderato

Track length21:02

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2. Adagio

Track length12:31

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3. Rondo (Allegro non troppo)

Track length11:56

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In June this year, after an absence of a quarter-century, the legendary Maurizio Pollini returned to Dresden’s Semperoper to play Brahms’s First Piano Concerto under the baton of Christian Thielemann. Not at all surprisingly, they brought the house down.

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February 2012

Pollini plays with tremendous authority and passion...It's a magisterial interpretation...Yet if anything it's Thielemann's contribution that's more remarkable...his command of the orchestra here arouses admiration...[in the Adagio] Pollini and Thielemann produce one of the most beautiful and refinedly spiritual interpretations in recent years. It's a reading of profound poetry.

2nd February 2012

the conductor is Christian Thielemann, not an obvious collaborator for a musician of Pollini's temperament and outlook, yet in practice the partnership works remarkably well. Thielemann's broad-brush expressiveness provides a foil to Pollini's playing, which seems to acquire extra weight and spaciousness from the emphatic orchestra. Some passages have a real theatrical grandeur; the slow movement becomes a rapt hymn

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15

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