Wilhelm Backhaus Recital & Concertos
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Reissue/Archive of the Month
The very personification of good musical judgement, especially in Beethoven. This is big playing, impulsive at times but never contrived. Also included is an Emperor Concerto under Joseph Keilberth...
Wilhelm Backhaus Recital & Concertos
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Reissue/Archive of the Month
The very personification of good musical judgement, especially in Beethoven. This is big playing, impulsive at times but never contrived. Also included is an Emperor Concerto under Joseph Keilberth...
About
Wilhelm Backhaus, who in 1905 won the distinguished Anton Rubinstein competition in Paris at the age of 21, limited his repertoire after the Second World War to works by the great masters Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Schubert, Haydn and Schumann. These three piano recitals present the pianist in the mature stage of his artistry, in legendary performances from 1953 (Ordensaal Schloss Ludwigsburg), December 1959 (Liederhalle Stuttgart) and March 1962 (Liederhalle Stuttgart).
Contents and tracklist
- Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
- Recorded: 12 December 1953
- Recording Venue: Ludwigsburg, Schloss, Ordenssaal, Germany
- Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
- Recorded: 12 December 1953
- Recording Venue: Ludwigsburg, Schloss, Ordenssaal, Germany
- Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
- Recorded: 12 December 1953
- Recording Venue: Ludwigsburg, Schloss, Ordenssaal, Germany
Work length38:22
This work is only available as an album download.
- Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
- Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
- Joseph Keilberth
- Recorded: 15 March 1962
- Recording Venue: Stuttgart, Liederhalle, Germany
I. Allegro (Live)
Track length20:21
This track is only available as an album download.
- Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
- Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
- Hans Müller-Kray
- Recorded: 2 December 1959
- Recording Venue: Stuttgart, Liederhalle, Germany
- Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
- Recorded: 2 December 1959
- Recording Venue: Stuttgart, Liederhalle, Germany
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineJuly 2019Reissue/Archive of the Month
July 2019
The very personification of good musical judgement, especially in Beethoven. This is big playing, impulsive at times but never contrived. Also included is an Emperor Concerto under Joseph Keilberth from 1962 which features one of the loveliest accounts of the central Adagio un poco mosso that I have ever heard.
