The Complete Decca Solo Recording

Radu Lupu - The Complete Decca Solo Recording

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Artist: Radu Lupu
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2010-05-11
Music Label: Decca Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Rondos (2) for piano, Op. 51: 1. C major
  2. Rondos (2) for piano, Op. 51: 2. G major
  3. Variations (32) on an original theme for piano in C minor, WoO 80
  4. Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37: 1. Allegro con brio
  5. Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37: 2. Largo
  6. Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37: 3. Rondo: Allegro
  7. Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49/1: 1. Andante
  8. Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49/1: 2. Rondo: Allegro
  9. Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49/2: 1. Allegro ma non troppo
  10. Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49/2: 2. Tempo di menuetto
Music CD 2
  1. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor ('Moonlight'), Op. 27/2: 1. Adagio sostenuto
  2. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor ('Moonlight'), Op. 27/2: 2. Allegretto
  3. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor ('Moonlight'), Op. 27/2: 3. Presto agitato
  4. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor ('Pathétique'), Op. 13: 1. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio
  5. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor ('Pathétique'), Op. 13: 2. Adagio cantabile
  6. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor ('Pathétique'), Op. 13: 3. Rondo: Allegro
  7. Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major ('Waldstein'), Op. 53: 1. Allegro con brio
  8. Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major ('Waldstein'), Op. 53: 2. Introduzione: Adagio molto
  9. Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major ('Waldstein'), Op. 53: 3. Rondo: Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo
Music CD 3
  1. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5: 1. Allegro maestoso
  2. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5: 2. Andante espressivo
  3. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5: 3. Scherzo: Allegro energico
  4. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5: 4. Intermezzo: Andante molto
  5. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5: 5. Finale: Allegro moderato ma rubato
  6. Theme and variations, for piano in D minor (after sextet for strings, Op. 18)
Music CD 4
  1. Rhapsodies (2) for piano, Op. 79: 1. B minor: Agitato
  2. Rhapsodies (2) for piano, Op. 79: 2. G minor: Molto passionato, ma non troppo allegro
  3. Intermezzi (3) for piano, Op. 117: 1. E flat major: Andante moderato
  4. Intermezzi (3) for piano, Op. 117: 2. B flat minor: Andante non troppo e con molta espressione
  5. Intermezzi (3) for piano, Op. 117: 3. C sharp minor: Andante con moto
  6. Pieces (6) for piano, Op. 118: 1. A minor: Intermezzo: Allegro non assai, ma molto passionato
  7. Pieces (6) for piano, Op. 118: 2. A major: Intermezzo: Andante teneramente
  8. Pieces (6) for piano, Op. 118: 3. G minor: Ballade: Allegro energico
  9. Pieces (6) for piano, Op. 118: 4. F minor: Intermezzo: Allegretto un poco agitato
  10. Pieces (6) for piano, Op. 118: 5. F major: Romanze: Andante
  11. Pieces (6) for piano, Op. 118: 6. E flat minor: Intermezzo: Andante, largo e mesto
  12. Pieces (4) for piano, Op. 119: 1. B minor: Intermezzo: Adagio
  13. Pieces (4) for piano, Op. 119: 2. E minor: Intermezzo: Andantino un poco agitato
  14. Pieces (4) for piano, Op. 119: 3. C major: Intermezzo: Grazioso e giocoso
  15. Pieces (4) for piano, Op. 119: 4. E flat major: Rhapsodie: Allegro risoluto
Music CD 5
  1. Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, D. 845 (Op. 42): 1. Moderato
  2. Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, D. 845 (Op. 42): 2. Andante, poco mosso
  3. Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, D. 845 (Op. 42): 3. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
  4. Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, D. 845 (Op. 42): 4. Rondo: Allegro vivace
  5. Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major ('Fantasy'), D. 894 (Op. 78): 1. Molto moderato e cantabile
  6. Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major ('Fantasy'), D. 894 (Op. 78): 2. Andante
  7. Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major ('Fantasy'), D. 894 (Op. 78): 3. Menuetto e trio: Allegro moderato
  8. Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major ('Fantasy'), D. 894 (Op. 78): 4. Allegretto
Music CD 6
  1. Piano Sonata No. 5 in A flat major, D. 557: 1. Allegro moderato
  2. Piano Sonata No. 5 in A flat major, D. 557: 2. Andante
  3. Piano Sonata No. 5 in A flat major, D. 557: 3. Allegro
  4. Scherzos (2) for piano, D. 593: 1. B flat major: Allegretto
  5. Scherzos (2) for piano, D. 593: 2. D flat major: Allegro moderato
  6. Moments musicaux (6) for piano, D. 780 (Op. 94): 1. C major: Moderato
  7. Moments musicaux (6) for piano, D. 780 (Op. 94): 2. A flat major: Andantino
  8. Moments musicaux (6) for piano, D. 780 (Op. 94): 3. F minor: Allegro moderato
  9. Moments musicaux (6) for piano, D. 780 (Op. 94): 4. C sharp minor: Moderato
  10. Moments musicaux (6) for piano, D. 780 (Op. 94): 5. F minor: Allegro vivace
  11. Moments musicaux (6) for piano, D. 780 (Op. 94): 6. A flat major: Allegretto
  12. Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D. 958: 1. Allegro
  13. Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D. 958: 2. Adagio
  14. Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D. 958: 3. Menuetto: Allegro
  15. Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D. 958: 4. Allegro
Music CD 7
  1. Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959: 1. Allegro
  2. Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959: 2. Andantino
  3. Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959: 3. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
  4. Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959: 4. Rondo: Allegretto
  5. Piano Sonata No. 14 in A minor ('Grande Sonate'), D. 784 (Op. posth. 143): 1. Allegro giusto
  6. Piano Sonata No. 14 in A minor ('Grande Sonate'), D. 784 (Op. posth. 143): 2. Andante
  7. Piano Sonata No. 14 in A minor ('Grande Sonate'), D. 784 (Op. posth. 143): 3. Allegro vivace
  8. Piano Sonata No. 1 in E major, D. 157: 1. Allegro ma non troppo
  9. Piano Sonata No. 1 in E major, D. 157: 2. Andante
  10. Piano Sonata No. 1 in E major, D. 157: 3. Menuetto: Allegro vivace
Music CD 8
  1. Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, D. 664 (Op. 120): 1. Allegro moderato
  2. Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, D. 664 (Op. 120): 2. Andante
  3. Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, D. 664 (Op. 120): 3. Allegro
  4. Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D. 960: 1. Molto moderato
  5. Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D. 960: 2. Andante sostenuto
  6. Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D. 960: 3. Scherzo: Allegro vivace con delicatezza
  7. Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D. 960: 4. Allegro ma non troppo
Music CD 9
  1. Impromptus (4) for piano, D. 899 (Op. 90): 1. C minor: Allegro molto moderato
  2. Impromptus (4) for piano, D. 899 (Op. 90): 2. E flat major: Allegro
  3. Impromptus (4) for piano, D. 899 (Op. 90): 3. G flat major: Andante
  4. Impromptus (4) for piano, D. 899 (Op. 90): 4. A flat major: Allegretto
  5. Impromptus (4) for piano, D. 935 (Op. posth. 142): 1. F minor: Allegro moderato
  6. Impromptus (4) for piano, D. 935 (Op. posth. 142): 2. A flat major: Allegretto
  7. Impromptus (4) for piano, D. 935 (Op. posth. 142): 3. B flat major: Andante
  8. Impromptus (4) for piano, D. 935 (Op. posth. 142): 4. F minor: Allegro scherzando
Music CD 10
  1. Humoreske for piano in B flat major, Op. 20: Einfach - Sehr rasch und leicht - Noch rascher - Erstes Tempo - Wie im Anfang
  2. Humoreske for piano in B flat major, Op. 20: Hastig - Nach und nach immer lebhafter und stärker - Wie vorher - Adagio
  3. Humoreske for piano in B flat major, Op. 20: Einfach und zart - Intermezzo
  4. Humoreske for piano in B flat major, Op. 20: Innig
  5. Humoreske for piano in B flat major, Op. 20: Sehr lebhaft - Stretto - Mit einigem Pomp
  6. Humoreske for piano in B flat major, Op. 20: Zum Beschluss - Adagio - Allegro
  7. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: 1. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen (Of foreign lands and people)
  8. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: 2. Kuriose Geschichte (A strange story)
  9. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: 3. Hasche - Mann (Catch - as - catch - can)
  10. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: 4. Bittendes Kind (Pleading Child)
  11. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: 5. Glückes genug (Happy enough)
  12. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: 6. Wichtige Begebenheit (An important event)
  13. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: 7. Träumerei (Dreaming)
  14. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: 8. Am Kamin (By the fire - side)
  15. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: 9. Ritter vom Steckenpferd (Knight of the hobby - horse)
  16. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: 10. Fast zu ernst (Almost too serious)
  17. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: 11. Fürchtenmachen (Frightening)
  18. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: 12. Kind im Einschlummern (Child falling asleep)
  19. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: 13. Der Dichter spricht (The poet speaks)
  20. Kreisleriana, 8 fantasies for piano, Op. 16: 1. Ã?uÃ?erst bewegt
  21. Kreisleriana, 8 fantasies for piano, Op. 16: 2. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch
  22. Kreisleriana, 8 fantasies for piano, Op. 16: 3. Sehr aufgeregt
  23. Kreisleriana, 8 fantasies for piano, Op. 16: 4. Sehr langsam
  24. Kreisleriana, 8 fantasies for piano, Op. 16: 5. Sehr lebhaft
  25. Kreisleriana, 8 fantasies for piano, Op. 16: 6. Sehr langsam
  26. Kreisleriana, 8 fantasies for piano, Op. 16: 7. Sehr rasch
  27. Kreisleriana, 8 fantasies for piano, Op. 16: 8. Schnell und spielend

Free Music Notes for The Complete Decca Solo Recording

Free Music Review: A Welcome Birthday Tribute for a Great Artist
Hit: 5 Stars

Decca has taken the opportunity of Radu Lupu's sixty-fifth birthday to repackage his complete solo recordings for that label in a convenient and economical bargain box. Veteran pianophiles will have long since experienced and acknowledged this great artist's remarkable gifts, and may well own one or more of the recordings anthologized herein. However, for collectors unfamiliar with Lupu's achievements and his regrettably few outings in the recording studio, this superb retrospective is tailor-made.

Suffice it to say that Lupu is both a formidable virtuoso and a consummate musician. His technique is second to none, the refulgent sonorities he coaxes from his instrument quasi-orchestral in their kaleidoscopic array, his grasp of structure and style comprehensive, and his sensitivity to lyrical nuances instinctive.

These qualities are particularly well suited to the solo repertoire he has chosen to record: Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Mozart (not for Decca, however)--and pre-eminently Schubert. I doubt if there is, or ever has been, a greater interpreter of this composer than Lupu. Not even Richter manages to sound Schubert's depths as thoroughly and effortlessly at Lupu. This anthology is therefore worth purchasing for its generous helping of Schubert Sonatas and shorter works. Among the highlights of this selection are exhaustively, even exhaustingly, cogent traversals of the Impromptus (no hint of the salon or of over-familiarity here); a devastating account of the haunting A-Minor sonata D. 845--all the more shattering for its surface understatement; a richly-textured version of the well-known A-Major Sonata, D. 664 that rivals, and in my estimation surpasses, Richter's famous recording for lyrical splendor and depth of insight; and a performance of Schubert's final Sonata, D. 960 that can only be called sublime--an unforgettable interpretation that gets everything right. But then, Lupu tends to get nearly everything right whenever he performs Schubert: tempo, dynamic contrasts, mood, touch, texture and of course the all-important harmonic and tonal displacements. He understands with astonishing acuity the depth of Schubert's existential angst, even even at the most seemingly carefree moments--though he never wears Schubertian trauma on his sleeve (as some other renowned Schubertians, such as Richter, Arrau and Uchida, occasionally do).

If I have spent a disproportionately large portion of this review on Lupu's Schubert, that is because this pianist is one of the the few who fully appreciates, and consistently realizes, the extent of the composer's achievement in piano literature. And it may well be that Lupu understands Schubert more acutely than any interpreter since Schnabel first alerted us to the full stature of these inexhaustible works.

I must not, however, slight Lupu's achievement in Brahms and Schumann. He brings his poetic sensibilities and keen intellect to bear on both, with predictably satisfying results. Lupu's gifts are abundantly evident in late Brahms; these elusive works in lesser hands can seem both enigmatic and insubstantial, but Lupu makes the listener aware of their sensuous beauty without slighting their inwardness. He seems less attuned to the ruggedness of the early Sonata, op. 5; I prefer the more objective and tougher approaches of Curzon and Katchen--he nevertheless does justice to this sprawling work's majesty as well as its lyricism. Likewise in Schumann's evergreen miniatures from op. 15 Lupu enables us to "see eternity in a grain of sand," while in the more ambitious Humoreske, op. 20 and Kreisleriana, he effectively integrates what might seem like a patchwork of short sections into an organic whole. Moreover, Lupu's sumptuous tone and hypersensitive touch are perfectly suited to Schumann's sound-world as to Schubert's.

I leave Beethoven for last only because I find Lupu's forays into this composer (comparatively) less satisfying than his astonishingly perceptive Schubert, Brahms and Schumann. Lupu's take on Beethoven is predictably but excessively rhapsodic. The Third Concerto (the pianist's first recording for Decca, and the only concertante work included in this anthology) is a case in point: in this work phrasing, rubato and dynamics are waywardly, if at times intriguingly, personal. The same goes, to a greater or lesser extent, for the three famous "named" sonatas: Lupu's approach, though rapturously beautiful to the senses and highly nuanced, lacks the incisiveness, even abruptness, we expect in Beethoven. One is reminded of both the vitues and vices of Arrau's Beethoven (Lupu's interpretation of the "Waldstein," for instance, strongly recalls Arrau's, though with more plausible tempi). But I mustn't dwell on these shortcomings, for there is also much to enjoy in the two discs devoted to Beethoven--including a particularly compelling account of the Thirty-Two Variations on an Original Theme in C minor, and a delightfully genial traversal of the underappreicated Rondos op. 51 (even if Lupu's lyrical approach tends to turn these works into the Impromptus Schubert never wrote).

Throughout this set the engineers have provided oustandingly realistic piano sonorities--Lupu's prismatic play of color and tonal shadings is conveyed so vividly as to be nearly palpable. Likewise, his characteristically wide dyanamic range--from the barest whisper to majestic, and at times appropriately cruchy, fortissimos--is faithfully caught. Given the diverse range of occasions, venues, technicians and producers involved--from the analog era to recent digital--the sound is of consistently high quality. Occasionally (in the more recent recordings) I noticed a slight overabundance of "hall" resonance, though not so much as to blur detail. Documentation is good; notes are brief but sufficient.

In sum, then, this is a uniquely valuable collection, representing the considerable achievement of a pianist who must be accounted one of the very greatest of his generation. Strongly recommended to pianophiles generally, but most of all to earnest Schubertians.
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The Complete Decca Solo Recording Poster

All-new collection brings together all of Lupu's published solo recordings--for the first time! 2010 marks the 40th anniversary of Grammy® award winning pianist Radu Lupu's association with Decca, and in November he celebrates his 65th birthday. This collection features recordings for which Lupu has achieved worldwide acclaim and includes pieces by composers such as Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms, and Schumann. A special bonus is the inclusion of Radu Lupu's first concerto recording--Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto-- made in 1970 with the London Symphony under the direction of Lawrence Foster. Radu Lupu continues to give recitals and perform concertos in venues throughout the world and many of his recordings have achieved extraordinary reviews. 10 CDs at a budget price, packaged in an elegant capbox.

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