You will listen to the first selection 1000 times
C. B Collins Jr. | Atlanta, GA United States | 10/12/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This CD contains three keyboard concertos, played masterfully by Vladimir Feltsman.
The Concerto in D Minor is an incredible piece of music, the first movement being one of the grandest classical works I know. It seems almost experimental as if fighting conventional musical structures. It evokes devils and angels in its power and as the movement progresses the listener becomes entranced as the piece even becomes atonal and tense before cascading back into a force of nature. As I listen, I hear the composition begin to divert from harmonious chords onto the edge of disharmony, almost becoming frantic and lost, and then becoming found and organized again. I asked Jim whether he heard the piece almost dangerously disintegrate into discord but he did not hear it. But it is there and will convince you of the overwhelming mastery displayed in this first movement of the Concerto in D Minor.
Concerto in E Major is very good, meditative and structural, quite and solid, elegantly forming before your ears. By the third movement, the piece seems radically changed in the Allegro, springing up like grasshoppers in long grass, faster than you can catch them or sweep them from your clothes.
Concerto in D Major's first movement is grand and regal, full of pomp and juxtaposition and declaratory statements. The piece cascades all over, like a million marbles falling down a grand staircase. The tone changes in the middle movement, the Adagio e piano sempre, taking steps up and down, tentative, creeping gently like a mouse that peeps around corners, retreats, then peeps again. Listen to it and you will hear what I hear. It is the music of uncertainty but a silver graceful thin uncertainty.
I love this CD and found the first movement of Concerto in D Minor to be worth the price of the CD.
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WOW!
Anne Windy Wilson | Noblesville, Indiana United States | 02/26/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"To be perfectly honest, i havn't heard this cd yet (though i plan on buying it very shortly). But i DID happen to see feltsman live playing the first concerto with the Indiapolis Syphony Orchestra, and some of the most beutiful music came alive. Before seeing this performance i was much more partial to Beethoven and yearned for more excitement. But he sparked my love for bach with his dazzeling performance. Every single note was placed absolutetly PERFECT. The tempo of the last movement was set slightly faster than what i was to hear in other perfomances, but that only added to the dramatic intensity of my favorite bach mov't. Compared to other performances i'm familiar with, Feltsman blew perahia out of the water. Though as for gould, being the unorthodox genius that he is, gives an interpretation to his liking. And feltsman will give a more orthodox performance. Though i am a big fan of music being open to interpretation, feltsman is a great place to start."
Track Listings (9) - Disc #1