Live in Brussels (recorded in 1983)
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BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / CHOPIN
Live in Brussels (recorded in 1983)
Ivan Moravec (piano)
[ Supraphon / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 15 March 2010
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Over two evenings in 1983 (4 February and 7 November) in the concert hall of Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, the world-famous pianist Ivan Moravec spellbound the audience with his majestic performance. This master of the piano's precision marries cultivated tone and widely differentiated articulation, augmented by deep musical élan.
Each tone has absolute logic within the order of the composition he interprets, be it Beethoven's expansive Sonata in D major, "Pastoral", or the seemingly smaller pieces by Brahms and Chopin. And it is precisely in the latter that Ivan Moravec excels as a master of tiny area, which he wondrously chases in stylistic terms and renders ebulliently.
The live recording breathes in the airy atmosphere of the concert hall, one that can hardly be evoked in studio albums. The recording clearly shows that the world of Beethoven's, Chopin's and Brahms's piano works is close to the essence of Moravec's being.
Tracks:
Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 'Pastorale'
Brahms:
Intermezzo in A minor, Op. 118 No. 1
Capriccio in B minor, Op. 76 No. 2
Intermezzo in A major, Op. 118 No. 2
Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 79 No. 2
Chopin:
Nocturne No. 9 in B major, Op. 32 No. 1
Nocturne No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1
Mazurka No. 13 in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4
Mazurka No. 32 in C sharp minor, Op. 50 No. 3
Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20
