Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
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Composer: Frederic ChopinOrchestra: Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
Performer: Olga Kern
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-05-09
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
- Allegro maestoso
- Romanze: Larghetto
- Rondo: Vivace
- Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49
- Bolero, Op. 19
- Fantaisie-Impromoptu, Op. 66
- Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53
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Free Music Review: Magnificient Playing of Chopin From Olga Kern
Hit: 5 Stars
Olga Kern is a young pianist who has been earning ample praise for her playing these past few years. I had the pleasure finally to become acquainted with her prodigious talent at the keyboard, seeing her recently in a performance of Beethoven's "Choral Fantasy" with the Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium, and I must note that her playing was quite graceful, and polished, without the pyrotechnical showmanship I have seen from, for example, Lang Lang. She's definitely one of the finest pianists of her generation, but for some odd reason, she has been content to make piano concerto recordings with second and third tier orchestras only, not with some of Europe's and North America's most eminent ensembles. Here in this fine recording, Kern demonstrates that she is becoming one of our best interperters of Chopin's piano scores, beginning with a fine performance of the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 which was recorded back in 2004 during a USA tour with conductor Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic. Her intense, technically brilliant playing comes off as a fascinating mixture of Alfred Brendel's cool, detached technical skills with Martha Argerich's fiery temperment. And I think that's a fine analogy which works quite well in her playing of several notable Chopin solo piano pieces, which were recorded in London a few months after her USA tour. Indeed, her performances of the Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49, the Fantaisie-Impromoptu, Op. 66, and especially, the Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 are among the most inspired, passionate, and least self-indulgent that I've heard either in a recording or live during a concert performance.
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