Brahms - Piano Concerto 1 [Zimerman/ Bernstein-Wiener Philharmoniker]
With this Blog entry, Brahms now bubbles to the top of the Composer list with 65 entries, compared to Beethoven who has 64, this is surprising, i made a list of my compact discs a while back, and Beethoven easily topped the list, Brahms even came in Fourth, while Schubert and Chopin took silver and bronze respectively, so it's surprising that Brahms is number one here, certainly just lately this Concerto has features fairly often in my Blog with Brendel and Donohoe, and even Zimerman with Rattle [13th May 2011], this Blog entry follows on from last months playing the second Concerto [17th August 2011], these are the two highlights in the box set, they are all live recordings, but they don't show at all.
Krystian Zimerman is from Poland, now 54, this recording was made way back in 1984 when Zimerman was 28, the boxed set is a very nice acquisition, it's good to have all of Brahm's Concertos brought together under one roof as it were, all by Bernstein, the mint green cover is nice, the lettering of the Composer, Artists, and works nicely laid out, and with four separate pictures of each of the Artists.
