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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3.(Sound Recording Review)
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3. Martha Argerich, piano; Claudio Abbado, Mahler Chamber Orchestra. DG B0003398-02.
Listening to Argerich play anything is a joy. She still possesses the ability to communicate the most ethereal and the most grandiose passages with equal authority. And her fingers must have extra joints in them the way she's able to command a keyboard.
It's a little odd, then, that I didn't find her 2004 recordings of the Beethoven Second and Third Piano Concertos with Claudio Abbado and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra more appealing. Not that they aren't appealing; let me say, more appealing than they are. Maybe I expected too much, or maybe I expected something different.
What we get are performances that seem more sedate than I'm used to, more reserved. Perhaps this is Abbado's decision, because the seriousness doesn't affect Ms. Argerich's solo passages much. It's just that when Abbado leads the introductions and bridges, things seem to take on a tone of gravity I am not accustomed to. Compare, for instance, Kovacevich/Davis or Perahia/Haitink and you notice a difference in mood, a ...
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