Lazar Berman - The Complete Sony Recordings: Box Set 6CDs (2016)

In 1976, when the cold war was cold indeed, wrote the New York Times, Lazar Berman appeared virtually unannounced from behind the Iron Curtain and provided the West with an exotic glimpse of a secretive Soviet musical life. On his first United States tour, Mr. Berman made an overwhelming impression as a performer who did more than just overcome technical problems; he seemed to crush them into insignificance. Bermans recordings, though relatively few in number, confirmed that impression. Sony Classicals new 6-CD box of performances issued by CBS between 1976 and 1983, is full of unique treasures. They include his recording of the Rachmaninoff Third Concerto with Claudio Abbado and the London Symphony Orchestra: For a big, grand, show-stopping spectacular, wrote Gramophone, with a host of musical merits to boot, the Berman is necessary nay, compulsive listening. The same could be said of the rest of this new set, including the Brahms First Piano Concerto, with Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Chicago Symphony, and solo works by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms and Scriabin.

Tracklist:
CD 1 :
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30

Lazar Berman – piano
London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado

CD 2 :
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15

Lazar Berman – piano
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf

CD 3 :
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 “Appassionata”
Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-Flat Major, Op. 31, No. 3 “The Hunt”

CD 4 :
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2
Prelude in G Major, Op. 32, No. 5
Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5

Alexander Scriabin
Étude in B-Flat Minor, Op. 8, No. 11
Étude in D-Sharp Minor, Op. 8, No. 12

Aram Khachaturian
Toccata in E-Flat Minor

Sergei Prokofiev
March (From “The Love for Three Oranges”)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Die Ruinen von Athen, Op. 113: Marcia alla turca
Piano Sonata No. 20 in G Major, Op. 49, No. 2: Il Tempo di Menuetto

Frédéric Chopin:
Étude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 7

Franz Schubert
Gretchen am Spinnrade, D. 118, S. 513
Erlkönig, D. 328, S. 557a

Manuel de Falla
El amor brujo: Danza ritual del fuego

CD 5 :
Muzio Clementi:
Piano Sonata in B Minor, Op. 40, No. 2

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo in A Minor, K. 511

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 “Pathetique”

CD 6 :
Frédéric Chopin
Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35 “Funeral March”

Franz Liszt
Trauervorspiel und Trauermarsch, S. 206
Rhapsodie Espagnole, S. 254

Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in E Minor, Op. Posth. 72, No. 1

George Gershwin
Prelude No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor

2016 Box Sets MP3 320 CBR Discography Classical

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