Track Listing

1. Allegro maestoso
2. Quasi adagio; Allegretto vivace; Allegro animato
3. Allegro marziale animato
4. No. 1, Allegro molto moderato
5. No 2, Adagio
6. No. 3, Allegro marcato
7. Adagio sostenuto assai
8. Allegro agitato assai
9. Allegro moderato
10. Allegro deciso
11. Marziale un poco meno allegro
12. Allegro animato

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35337 in Music
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Cliburn Captures the Other Romantics
Van Cliburn's recordings of the Tchaikovsky First and Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concertos are legendary, but his performances of some of the other famous Romantic Concertos often get overlooked. This CD of the Grieg and two Liszt Concertos by Cliburn, and conductor Eugene Ormandy leading the Philadelphia Orchestra, is an outstanding title and one of the best currently available (particularly until Julius Katchen's accounts resurface). There are memorable recordings that pair the Liszt Piano Concertos (Cziffra, Richter, Zimerman), and lots of the Grieg (though most are matched with the Schumann), but very few that combine all three to such great effect. Van Cliburn is at his best on these Concertos, particularly on the Grieg and the second Liszt, as he melds his "heart-on-sleeve" style with commanding technique and phrasing. Some may not like this style of playing, and sometimes it does not suit a particular piece (his Brahms First comes to mind), but here there is no question.