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Nelson Freire - Memories: The Unreleased Recordings

Nelson Freire (piano)

Nelson Freire - Memories: The Unreleased Recordings
an experience that is somehow much more than the sum of its diverse parts.

Gramophone Magazine, December 2022

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Nelson Freire - Memories: The Unreleased Recordings

Nelson Freire (piano)

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an experience that is somehow much more than the sum of its diverse parts.

Gramophone Magazine, December 2022

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On November 21st 2021, Nelson Freire was taken before his time. One year on, we remember him with a new collection of previously unreleased Decca recordings, bonus tracks making their debut on disc and rare radio broadcast tapes; some of Nelson’s finest performances from a time he rarely recorded commercially. The collection is accompanied by a new essay by Dominic Fyfe, Nelson’s long-time Decca producer.

The Berlin Sessions

Rediscovered, unreleased recordings from 2014 of Gluck, Bach and Beethoven’s Andante favori – his only recording of this piece Rare Radio Tapes

Broadcast concerto performances from 1970-1985 including Beethoven 4 and Brahms 2, Bartok 1 and Richard Strauss’ Burleske New to CD

Bonus tracks never before released on CD including music by his beloved Villa-Lobos and Debussy

Contents and tracklist

Excerpt,Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Work length3:16
Dance of the Blessed Spirits "Melody" (Arr. Sgambati for Piano)
Track length3:16
Excerpt,Bach, J S: Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'
Work length3:25
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Arr. Hess for Piano)
Track length3:25
Beethoven: Andante Favori in F, WoO 57
Work length7:55
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
Work length32:29
I. Allegro moderato (Cadenza: Saint-Saëns)
Track length18:06
II. Andante con moto
Track length5:09
III. Rondo (Vivace) (Cadenza: Saint-Saëns)
Track length9:14
Excerpt,Beethoven: Bagatelles (11), Op. 119
Work length1:43
No. 11 in B-Flat Major. Andante ma non troppo
Track length1:43
Strauss, R: Burleske for Piano and orchestra in D minor, AV85
Work length19:25
Debussy: La plus que lente, CD 128
Work length4:03
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4 for piano or orchestra
Work length3:22
I. Prelúdio. Introdução
Track length3:22
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1, BB 91, Sz. 83
Work length27:07
I. Allegro moderato - Allegro
Track length9:50
II. Andante
Track length10:15
III. Allegro molto
Track length7:02
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83
Work length48:41
I. Allegro non troppo
Track length17:35
II. Allegro appassionato
Track length9:13
III. Andante - Più adagio
Track length12:43
IV. Allegretto grazioso - Un poco più presto
Track length9:10
Excerpt,Brahms: Klavierstücke (6), Op. 118
Work length5:07
No. 2, Intermezzo in A Major
Track length5:07

Awards and reviews

December 2022

an experience that is somehow much more than the sum of its diverse parts.

13th October 2022

The playing, as you would expect, is sparkling and deft, and in works like Strauss’s Burlesque and Saint-Saëns's cadenza to Beethoven's fourth concerto, it underlines the fact that in Britain we heard far less of Freire than we might have done, and were much poorer as a result.
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