There are only three things wrong with this collection of Beethoven's Piano Concertos featuring Romanian pianist Radu Lupu -- 1. Zubin Mehta on the podium, 2. the Israel Philharmonic is on-stage, and 3. Lupu has said he will never again record these or any other works. Nevertheless, Lupu's collection of Beethoven's Piano Concertos belongs on the shelf with the best performances of the works because Lupu is by common assent one of the great pianists of his generation. Why? Because his technique is so flawless it's ...
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There are only three things wrong with this collection of Beethoven's Piano Concertos featuring Romanian pianist Radu Lupu -- 1. Zubin Mehta on the podium, 2. the Israel Philharmonic is on-stage, and 3. Lupu has said he will never again record these or any other works. Nevertheless, Lupu's collection of Beethoven's Piano Concertos belongs on the shelf with the best performances of the works because Lupu is by common assent one of the great pianists of his generation. Why? Because his technique is so flawless it's imperceptible, because his tone is at once clear, high, full, and deep, because temperament combines the poetic and dramatic without a hint of the rhetorical, and, best of all, because his interpretations are wholly individual, his rounded phrasing, and molded structures unmistakably Lupu, but never for an instant self-indulgent. Despite the fact that Mehta does no more than beat time behind Lupu -- and that not especially well: listen to his cues in the opening of the Fifth Concerto -- and...
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