Shostakovich, Liszt, Prokofiev: Piano Concertos
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Music CD Cover Conductor: Lawrence Foster Orchestra: Libson Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra Performer: Lise de la Salle Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2008-02-26 Music Label: Naive Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Shostakovich, Liszt, Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Album
Free Music Review: Mannered, idiosyncratic playing and inert conducting
Hit: 2 Stars
Astonishing critical opinions are common enough, especially from The Gramophone, but their piano expert greeted Lisa de la Salle's present CD with unmitigated joy -- and I found it nearly unlistenable. To her credit, the extremely fleet-fingered de la Salle, age 19, doesn't bang and harangue us. She's not out to be the next Argerich but almost the oppiste, a Gallic will-o-the-wisp. But cascades of light, pearly, luminous notes get tiresome after a very short while.
I can almost admire her attempt to drain the Liszt First Cto. of bombast, but let's face it, that's the nature of the score. The Shostakovich First is meant to be cheeky, vivacious, and urbane despite the circus-band atmosphere. Under the prosaic Norman Foster there's no atmoosphere at all, and de la Salle on her own can't find a point of view. Accounts by Bronfman and Argerich leave her in the shade. The best thing on this CD is the Prokofiev First, where de la Salle finds more muscle and thrust, but the Gulbenkian Foundation Orch. of Lisbon is barely second rate, and once again Foster offers little in the way of style or shape in the orchestral part.
There's a good deal of charm in de la Salle's playing as such,, but she's not helped by the pingy, clattery sound or by much else on this CD.