Joseph Banowetz, Alfred Walter, Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra - Rubinstein: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (1992)
Joseph Banowetz, Alfred Walter, Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra - Anton Rubinstein: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 79:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Marco Polo | # 8.223456 | Recorded: 1992
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 79:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Marco Polo | # 8.223456 | Recorded: 1992
If, as Joseph Banowetz claims in his lively and informed notes, Rubinstein was ''the last in a line of pianist-composers that climaxed with Liszt, Busoni and Rachmaninov'', it is surely necessary to add that he was hardly a composer in the same league. And while I am more than grateful to have two such rarely heard concertos on record, powerfully and persuasively performed, it is difficult to warm to their often facile and derivative quality. Rubinstein may have been an anarchic and elemental virtuoso but he could be a sadly conventional composer. Clearly, he knew the finale of Beethoven's E flat Piano Sonata, Op. 31 No. 3, all too well, and in the First Concerto its propulsive tarantella combines uneasily with a Mendelssohnian mix of earnestness and sugar-sweet facility. The Second Concerto is more assured though, again, Rubinstein has difficulty in maintaining his initial seriousness. However, the slow movement is a genuine find, a surprisingly dark and sombre heart to music which elsewhere has to fight for a true sense of identity.
The recordings have a tendency to flatten out dynamics in the style of the early Vox discs, and the piano is badly out of tune in the cadenza from the First Concerto's finale. Yet, if Alfred Walter and the Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic are hardly models of refinement, Banowetz is a redoubtable and hardworking soloist, going through the final octave upheaval in the First Concerto's finale with a suitably storming assurance and responding to the Second Concerto's startling Adagio with much affection. His mammoth survey for Marco Polo of Rubinstein's complete keyboard works (five discs down and many to go) already includes the relatively popular Fourth Concerto (its perky, stop-go finale was a great favourite of Josef Hofmann and his star student Shura Cherkassky) and in view of the present disc's very generous length (79'10'') one hardly feels like complaining about almost non-existent breaks between movements. Ardent collectors of the unfamiliar will want this.–Bryce Morrison
Performer:
Joseph Banowetz, piano
Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra (Košice)
Alfred Walter, conductor
Track List:
Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (1829–1894)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 25
01. I. Moderato
02. II. Andante con moto
03. III. Con moto
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 35
04. I. Allegro vivace assai
05. II. Adagio non troppo
06. III. Moderato
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Joseph Banowetz, Alfred Walter, Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra - Rubinstein: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (1992)
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