Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Václav Smetáček, Evgeny Mravinsky - Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Symphony No. 4 (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 352 Mb | Total time: 71:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Praga | # PR 50021 | Recorded: 1955, 1957
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 352 Mb | Total time: 71:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Praga | # PR 50021 | Recorded: 1955, 1957
If you take it for granted that Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was the greatest pianist of the twentieth century and that his performances of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto were the greatest of the twentieth century, then you'll probably want to pick up this disc containing Michelangeli's fabled May 29, 1957, performance in Prague with Vaclav Smetacek and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. Although Smetacek is not the deepest, the greatest, or the most sympathetic accompanist Michelangeli ever had, and although the Prague players are not always quite on their best behavior, Michelangeli is as he always is in this work: absolutely definite.