Release Date: 17 November 2017
Label: C-Avi
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4260085533879
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Description
This disc comprises Menahem Pressler's latest Mozart Piano Concerto recordings plus works by Chopin and Debussy, live from 2016.
Pressler, now aged 93, is joined by the Magdeburg Philharmonic under the baton of Kimbo Ishii for the Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 27. His encores to these live performances are Debussy's La Cathédrale engloutie from Préludes Book I and Chopin's Nocturne No.20 in C sharp minor and Mazurka in A minor Op.17 No.4.
In May and December 2016, Pressler performed as a soloist in his home town, Magdeburg, Germany. Pressler has played Mozart's piano concertos with such frequency that they can be reckoned among the works that have occupied him the most in his life. He phrases the piano part with unmatched nuance. In the framework of moderately chosen tempi, he masters every technical hurdle in each of these two masterpieces. One can immediately tell that we are dealing with a pianist who not only knows very note of these concertos, but who has made each of them his own.
Tracklisting
Andreas Willwohl & Daniel Heide
Laurence Kilsby & Ella O'Neill
Kilian Herold, Barbara Buntrock, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff
Kathrin Zukowski, KammerMusikKoln
Katharina Konradi, Catriona Morison, Ammiel Bushakevitz
Antje Weithaas, Denes Varjon
Premysl Vojta, Florence Millet, Ye Wu
Herbert Schuch, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
Slava Guerchovitch
Nora von Marschall
Lea Suter
Aart Bergwerff
Ran Jia
Johannes Krahl
Elke Volker
Henry Fairs
