Brahms: Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 (Live From Semperoper, Dresden / 2013)

第一号钢琴协奏曲是布拉姆斯第一部大型管弦乐曲，第二号钢琴协奏曲的发表则整整晚了二十二年，已经是布拉姆斯的成熟之作。创作时间约在第三号交响曲和小提琴协奏曲之间，是布拉姆斯规模最宏大、最具管弦乐效果的作品之一。布拉姆斯当时周游各地，经过许多德国名城大川，到达他向往的意大利时，心情显然非常开朗，一直念念不忘南欧的明媚风光。这部作品的精神或许可用他写给朋友信中的一句话代表：「宛如意大利的暮春与初夏。」 2011年六月，波里尼回到睽违二十多年的德勒斯登塞伯歌剧院，与提勒曼合作演出布拉姆斯第一号钢琴协奏曲，并且留下音乐会实况录音，得到2012年回声唱片大奖的肯定。一年多后，也就是2013年一月，波里尼再度回到德勒斯登和提勒曼合作第二号钢琴协奏曲。年届七十的波里尼依然散发出惊人的能量与清晰度，在提勒曼敏锐而且精确地指挥下，乐团紧紧配合着波里尼音乐的起承转合，无怪乎，《德勒斯登新闻报》把两人的组合称为「真正了不起的一场演出」。 (博客来) Recorded live at the Semperoper, Dresden, in January 2013, this performance of Brahms s Piano Concerto No.2 reunited the dream-team of Maurizio Pollini and the Staatskapelle orchestra under Christian Thielemann Pollini and Thielemann had already won a prestigious ECHO award for their DG recording of the first concerto, released in 2012 Brahms s second piano concerto has had a particularly notable history in the city of Dresden, where the composer himself played the work twice on the stage of the Semperoper - where this recording was made Premiered nearly twenty years after its predecessor and quite different in character, the concerto is still one of the greatest challenges of the piano repertory not just because of its daunting technical demands but also because of the sheer scale of its four movements.