Beethoven: The Piano Concertos [DVD Video]
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Composer: Ludwig van BeethovenConductor: Krystian Zimerman
Piano: Krystian Zimerman
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 197 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Movie Reviews of Beethoven: The Piano Concertos [DVD Video]
Movie Review: A wonderful memorial
Summary: 5 Stars
Concertos 3, 4 and 5 were recorded in Vienna in 1989, the year before Leonard Bernstein's death. Krystian Zimerman in December 1991 completed the cycle, as a memorial to the late conductor. The pianist conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker from the keyboard in concertos 1 and 2. Zimerman is an outstanding Beethoven interpreter: technically perfect, forceful, but always sensitive and aware of the classicist nature of these concertos. Bernstein conducts a (perhaps slightly pared down) highly responsive Vienna orchestra, the string and wind sound is relatively lean and inner dynamics come to the fore beautifully. In the two early concertos, Bernstein's inspiring presence is sadly missing. The Wiener Philharmoniker play every note very well indeed, and Zimerman sets numerous orchestral accents, but it is obvious that the conductor's role is foreign to him. In more ways than one, then, this set is a moving homage to Bernstein and a celebration of his close collaboration with Zimerman and the Vienna Philharmonic musicians. If you love these concertos as I do, you will also want to have Murray Perahia's sublime, spiritual approach to the whole set, recorded in 1988 in London (in very decent audio and video, Classic Archive) with the ASMF under the superb direction of Sir Neville Marriner. The very different, but equally outstanding Ambroisie-DVD set played by the stunningly brilliant Fran?ois-Ren? Duchable with John Nelson conducting the Ensemble National de Paris was recorded in PAL and has so far not been released in an NTSC version. In comparison, Daniel Barenboim, who conducts the very fine Staatskapelle Berlin from the keyboard (EuroArts), can sound ham-fisted on a few occasions and appears stretched to his limits in the dual role as soloist-conductor.
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