Beethoven reputedly said of his pupil Ferdinand Ries that he was
talented but that he "imitates me too much," and the few earlier
recordings of Ries' piano concertos, naturally enough taken from the
first part of his career when he was a star virtuoso, did nothing to
challenge that evaluation. This album, however, contains Ries' last two
concertos and is an entirely different story. By the early 1830s, Ries
was not such a renowned figure, but he was clearly keeping up with new
trends in the piano music of Hummel, Field, and even perhaps Chopin, of
whom the middle Introduction and Polonaise is strongly reminiscent. The
two concertos are spacious works with ornamented figuration, chromatic
modulations, and, yes, a bit of Beethoven, but Beethoven is present in
little quotations or strong allusions, indicating perhaps that the
student by this time was confident enough of his own identity. Sample
perhaps one of the slow movements, where Ries' skill as an orchestrator
is on full display. Pianist Piers Lane and New York state's little-known
Orchestra Now give the music its appropriate weight under
scholar-conductor Leon Botstein, and Hyperion's engineers do very well
in the unfamiliar surroundings of an auditorium at New York's Bard
College. An above-average entry in Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto
series, and one that has contributions to make to the music history
books. James Manheim
Tracklist :
Piano Concerto No 8 In A Flat Major 'Gruss An Den Rhein' (29:56)
Piano Concerto No 9 In G Minor (28:38)
Credits :
Conductor – Leon Botstein
Orchestra – The Orchestra Now
Piano – Piers Lane
sábado, 6 de janeiro de 2024
RIES : Piano Concertos Nos 8 & 9 (Piers Lanee • The Orchestra Now • Leon Botstein) (2018) Serie The Romantic Piano Concerto – 75 | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless
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