Friday 14 January 2011

Beethoven - Piano Concerto 4 [Schiff/ Haitink-Staatskapelle Dresden] 

Here's another Concerto from this wonderful 3 disc box set, last month i spoke about the Third Piano Concerto [21st December 2010], and here's the Fourth, these Beethoven Concertos never cease to amaze me.

Andras Schiff is Hungarian, now 57 years old, he recorded this Concerto in 1996, the front picture is a pleasing photo of Schiff and Haitink [by Clive Barda].

Well i like the opening of this concerto, but on this listening i was really quite wowed by the last movement, i have a tendency to place each Pianist in a certain camp, legato or staccato?, Andras Schiff definitely belongs in the staccato camp, 

Here's Murray Perahia playing the last movement on YouTube