BLACK FRIDAY 2024 - GET YOUR WISH LISTS IN! click here
Artist: | Ludwig Van Beethoven, Beethoven, Daniel Barenboim, Otto Klemperer |
Title: | Daniel Barenboim Otto Klemperer Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor VINYL LP |
Label: | |
Released: | 16/06/2023 |
Please note this release date may be subject to change and also stock arrival can be subject to delays, in particular if this is an overseas release. |
|
Format: | 180GM VINYL LP |
Country | EU/US |
Barcode: | 5054197504556 |
Catalogue number: | 5054197504556 |
SKU: | WLF07209 |
Condition: | BRAND NEW & SEALED |
The items we sell are brand new and unused official releases supplied to us by record companies, unless stated otherwise in the listing. Generally all items are sealed (this will be stated in the listing title). Occasionally we may open an LP to confirm any colour variant. We sometimes sell used items, this will be shown in the listing. | |
Genre: | Classical |
The German-born conductor Otto Klemperer, a towering figure in the musical history of the 20th century, died at the age of 88 on July 8th 1973, so 2023 will mark the 50th anniversary of his death. His complete recordings on Warner Classics catalogue are being made available for the first time in two separate boxes; the first volume with the Symphonic Works, Concertos & Lieder (95CD) will be released in June 2023. All recordings are remastered in HD 192/24 from original sources.
By the mid-1960s, the 80-year-old Otto Klemperer had recorded the nine symphonies, the Violin Concerto, Fidelio and the Missa solemnis, but not the piano concertos, which he had performed with such legendary figures as Schnabel, Claudio Arrau, Edwin Fischer, Wilhelm Backhaus and, in Moscow in 1936, the young Emil Gilels. In 1967, he recorded Mozart’s Concerto K503 with the 24-year-old Daniel Barenboim, the prodigiously talented pianist and conductor, whose recordings of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas were already taking the world by the ears. There was an immediate rapport between the two musicians, out of which came a Beethoven concerto cycle like no other the gramophone had yet given us.
Barenboim has said of Klemperer: ‘He approached the essence of what he wanted directly and without hesitation. He was not interested in sound as such but in correctness of execution of tempo, dynamics, and orchestral balances, over which he took immense care.’ He was, says Barenboim, an uncompromising musician and human being. No orchestra ever doubted the inner strength that emanated from him.
At the time the recordings of the piano concertos were made, Backhaus was still alive, as was Arrau, but neither could have challenged, provoked, and delighted the Grand Old Man – or offset his vivid but essentially monumental approach to the concertos – quite as Barenboim did. It was an inspired pairing in which distinct styles of music-making confront one another, yet are movingly and joyously linked in what appears to be (and to some extent was) an improvised act of live music-making.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 1770-1827
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 ‘Emperor’
SIDE A I. Allegro
SIDE B II. Adagio un poco mosso
III. Rondo: Allegro
Daniel Barenboim piano
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer
First release as HMV ASD 2500 (matrix 2YEA 3593-3594)
Recorded: 4-5 & 9.X.1967, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London (Stereo)
Producer: Suvi Raj Grubb · Balance engineer: Robert Gooch
Newly remastered in 192kHz/24-bit from original tapes by Art & Son Studio, Annecy
Original cover artwork · Total timing: 43 minutes
A Warner Classics release, (p) 1968 & Remastered (p) 2023, © 2023 Parlophone Records Limited
format | VINYL |
artist | Daniel Barenboim |
Forthcoming | yes |
Year of Issue | 2023 |
Recently In Stock | No |
Forthcoming | No |
Review This Product!
Help other Discrepancy Records users shop smarter by writing reviews for products you have purchased.
Stuff
Sent In By: Gary Melvin on 4 October 2024What a great Aussie business they have all the stuff a record collector could want there service is great my articles arrived swiftly so guys do what I did give em ago
Highly recommend
Sent In By: Elaine Roberts on 4 October 2024Great range of vinyl available. There was a delay on the expected release date of one of my purchases and they kept me fully informed of the delay and the adjusted release date. Very happy and will definitely use Discrepancy Records again.
great service.
Sent In By: Elias Kreuzer on 30 September 2024I cannot believe how good the service is from this company - I have purchased many items from this site before and everytime it has arrived well before its eta , in good packaging and condition. The communications about the whereabouts of my item is also comforting , knowing that they are constantly aware that I a looking forward to receiving it. Thank you again for your amazing service. Cannot recommend this site highly enough.