Mike Leghorn asks:
>Did Brendel/Abbado record No. 1? I've never seen it. I have No. 2 with
>Brendel/Abbado on Philips with the BPO.
Yes, also with the Berliner Philharmoniker at Jesus Christus Kirche,
Berlin in 1986. I know it exists because I've seen the original CD issue
in a friend's collection. I have a subsequent issue of it in the Brendel
III double CD set of "Great Pianists of the 20th Century" issued in 1999
two years before the actual turn of the century. If it is still available
perhaps it would be a mid-price reissue by now?
Anyway my four personal favourites choices, two for each concerto tend
to show my liking for powerful, muscular & intense interpretations in
both concertos. There's no room for flimsy whimsy in such pieces as
these as far as I'm concerned.
Geoffrey Gaskell