Rudolf Serkin, Claudio Abbado - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 23 (1983)

Posted By: tirexiss

Date: Feb. 13, 2023

The partnership of Serkin and Abbado in Mozart is a fascinating one. They are such different musical personalities, yet they work remarkably well together, so that each performance becomes an artistic amalgam of two quite different artistic approaches. Abbado matches a natural spontaneous warmth (listen to the beguiling way the orchestra shapes the secondary theme in the first movement of the A major Concerto) with the utmost refinement of detail; whereas Serkin, patrician, authoritative, strong, is more selfconsciously expressive when he deviates from a strictly rhythmic presentation of the melodic line in the same movement. The Adagio (of K488) shows the partnership at its most inspired, with music-making of memorable depth and eloquence based on an approach of deceptive simplicity. The excellent woodwind balance, about which RG commented when reviewing the original LP, is highly telling here and the sound overall is of DO's finest, with lovely piano timbre and a well-integrated orchestral sound picture, nicely resonant (if not so sharply detailed internally as with Decca's finest Compact Discs).
Robin Golding found the performance of K467 "probably the more successful of the two", and indeed it is most impressive, but I enjoyed K488 even more for its greater warmth and spirited finale.

AllMusic

Track List:

Konzert fur Klavier und Orchester Nr.21 C-dur KV 467
1. I. Allegro
2. II. Andante
3. III. Allegro vivace assai

Konzert fur Klavier und Orchester Nr.23 A-dur KV 488
4. I. Allegro
5. II. Adagio
6. III. Allegro assai

Performers:
Rudolf Serkin, piano
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Claudio Abbado

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