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Itzhak Perlman - Brahms: Violin Concerto / Barenboim

Itzhak Perlman - Brahms: Violin Concerto / Barenboim

Itzhak Perlman - Brahms: Violin Concerto / Barenboim

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #38861 in Music
  • Released on: 1992-11-17
  • Number of discs: 1



  • Customer Reviews

    AMAZING5
    the clarity and accuracy of Heifetz, the energy of Stern. This recording is by far my favorite of the Brahms violin concerto that i've heard.

    Perlman's remake of the Brahms concerto could use more life3
    Usually famous musicians get raves here at Amazon even for lessthan stellar work, but this Brahms Violin Concerto with Perlman and Barenboim (a remake for EMI of his famous recording with Giulini) deserves some serious criticism. The Gramophone has often pciekd Perlman's earlier effort as their first-choice, but here his playing is far too cautious. Barenboim, typical in his late phase, gives us slow tempos with little inner tension. Brahms is a composer of struggle and dramatic conflict, but you wouldn't know that listening to this expert, mellifluous performances.

    The first movement proceeds very slowly (22+ min. compared to Reiner's 18+ min. with Heifetz on RCA), and although Perlman is note-perfect, barenboim doesn't give him a foundation to shine. The slow movement goes at the normal tempo, and here Perlman's sweet melodic line and the refined playing of the Berlin Phil. help make up for the lack of inner life. The finale comes off as more or less a good night at the concert hall, with excellent ecexution by soloist and orchestra. It oculd be a little more rambunctious, but obviously making waves was the last thing Perlman and Barenbim had in mind.

    Superb5
    Beethoven is my favorite composer, but I have to say that Brahms topped him for the greatest violin concerto ever written and this is a great performance of it.

    Perlman's playing is beautiful, much warmer to my ears than Heifetz (with Reiner), which I also own. The orchestral accompaniment and solos from the Berlin Philharmonic are as perfect as you would expect. Tempos are somewhat broad but not sluggish; Barenboim gives the music enough room to breathe without being indulgent. The sound is excellent; it is a live performance, but other than some shuffling in the audience between the first and second movement and brief applause at the end you won't notice it.

    I'd rarely recommend a disc with a 38 minute playing time, but when it's a piece and a performance like this (or Brahms' 4th symphony with Kleiber and Vienna), who could complain?

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