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Bronfman/Welser-Most: Brahms/Piano Concerto
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| The Cleveland Orchestra is the 'aristocrat among American orchestras' (The Telegraph) and its sovereign, Franz Welser-Möst, rules his subjects with a velvet glove. lndeed, velvet and silk keep showing up in descriptions of the CIeveIanders sound under its principal conductor. lt is WeIser-Mösts nimble alternation between smoothness and a sound thats as 'sharp-edged as a skyscraper' (The Telegraph after the Brahms First at the orchestras London Proms concert). That keeps the ensemble and the audience figuratively on its toes. The Second Piano Concerto, compIeted in 1881, is the work of a composer who has become skiIIed in the manipuIation of Iarge forms. Brahms treats the soIoist as an equal partner with the orchestra. Yefim Bronfman has the uncanny abiIity to play Iarge without stridency, to handle the most deIicate passages without Iosing presence, and to play everything in between with a ravishing sense of tonal colour. Welser-Möst and Bronfman brought pulsing energy to the concertos second movement, a Scherzo, setting up an oasis of calm for the third that segued immediateIy into the genial finaIe, whose Iast chords were nearly obliterated by roars of approvaI from the audience. Laced into his forcefuI performance of Piano Concerto No. 1 was a surprising eIement of fury, as if the pianist had come unhinged momentariIy. And yet Bronfman was aIso whoIIy present, taking time in relaxed passages to savour every second. Which of the two concertos Bronfman knocked further out the park is impossibIe to say. Both scores the pianist seized by their very hearts, drawing forth alI the majesty, raw power and exquisite beauty that each contains. |
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