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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Brahms: Haydn-Variations, Symphony No. 3

Géza Anda (piano)

Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Brahms: Haydn-Variations, Symphony No. 3
Wonderfully characteristic late Hans Knappertsbusch performances: broad, flexible, the fruits of a lifetime’s devotion to the Viennese classics. The Beethoven concerto with Géza Anda is especially...

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Brahms: Haydn-Variations, Symphony No. 3

Géza Anda (piano)

Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch

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Wonderfully characteristic late Hans Knappertsbusch performances: broad, flexible, the fruits of a lifetime’s devotion to the Viennese classics. The Beethoven concerto with Géza Anda is especially...

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Following on from the last Knappertsbusch release of a programme of pure Beethoven featuring Backhaus and the Vienna Philharmonic dating from 1954, Orfeo's new album offers a recording of an entire concert performed in 1962. This recording features Geza Anda and the Cologne Radio Orchestra, one of the few concert orcehstras that Knappertsbusch conducted at the time apart from the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, and using the highly professional recording technology of Westdeutscher Rundfunk. The programme of this concert is again a Beethoven piano concerto, the passionate Third in C minor. The pianist Geza Anda, then aged 41, was the diametric opposite as a performer to the 74-year-old Hans knappertsbusch.

Contents and tracklist

Overture (Live)
Track length10:32
I. Allegro con brio (Live)
Track length17:55
II. Largo (Live)
Track length9:26
III. Rondo (Allegro) [Live]
Track length9:41
I. Allegro con brio (Live)
Track length12:24
II. Andante (Live)
Track length10:37
III. Poco allegretto (Live)
Track length7:17
IV. Allegro (Live)
Track length11:29

Awards and reviews

February 2018

Wonderfully characteristic late Hans Knappertsbusch performances: broad, flexible, the fruits of a lifetime’s devotion to the Viennese classics. The Beethoven concerto with Géza Anda is especially fine.
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