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Slow performances of the Brahms Second Concerto sound. . . flabby

Posted by Chris from Lafayette on April 29, 2012 at 23:36:11:
There's probably an exception or two (Moravec maybe - even then, I'm not so sure). However, despite my subject heading, I'm about to order a slow performance myself (at least from what I can tell from the samples) with Anna Malikova and the Duisburg Philharmonic and Jonathan Darlington on the Acousence label.

Ralf Koschnicke, the engineer and producer for this label, really seems to know what the heck he's doing - the recordings on this label are among the very best from an engineering point of view being released nowadays IMHO.

BTW, to get back to the Schnabel performance, I'm afraid I wasn't impressed. (Sorry, Brian.) Where we should have impetus, we have mere impatience (allied to various technical shortcomings and mishaps). I feel confident in saying that a performance like this would not get past the first round of a major piano competition these days. (Well, that's not actually true, because the concerto performances are usually in the final round! But the point is that Schnabel's technical difficulties are as much conceptual as physical, and his refusal to come to grips with the details of the writing (e.g., finishing the figures and phrases, articulating the grace notes rather than clumping them together, maintaining the pulse in a meaningful way, etc.) results in a performance that all too often sounds slap dash.