Noel Mewton-Wood plays Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto

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Australian pianist Noel Mewton-Wood's glorious 1952 account of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.4 in G Major Op.58 with the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr.
Mewton-Wood set down this reading a year before he ended his own life, one of two concerto recordings that he made for the Musical Masterpieces Society; the other was the Schumann, and the bulk of his other concerto recordings were for the Concert Hall label, of which MMS was a sub-label. While he played extensively in concert with a number of legendary conductors - Beecham, Sargent, Szell, Wood - he had not received a contract from any bigger label and so it was in Goehr on the two aforementioned labels that he found a most sympathetic conductor.
As with most of Mewton-Wood's recordings, the combination of dextrous ease and musical maturity belies his young age, particularly notable in this Beethoven work that requires a level of cultivation that many artists his age cannot always be expected to possess. His tonal palette is magnificent, as are his dynamic gradations, rhythmic vitality, poised voicing, and deft articulation - but it is the intelligence governing their use that is truly magical in this superb reading of one of the sublime masterpieces for piano and orchestra.
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@jackatherton0111 Жыл бұрын

There’s a temptation, almost an injunction, to beatify the pianists who died so early in the early 1950s. Lipatti and Kapell clearly deserve all the plaudits, and for me Mewton-Wood had a quality even they lacked: a supple, loose-limbed Australian naturalness that made him a more elegant Percy Grainger and a soulmate of Chopin (look for the two concertos) as well as Beethoven in this serene mood. It was not a limiting quality; look also for Mewton-Wood’s Busoni and Bliss. A terrible loss, but such early fulfillment. Thanks Mark for this and your longer tribute on KZbin.

@highpeaksphil Жыл бұрын

Never heard of this but thanks to Facebook today I have and what a pianist and such a sad ending to a young talent

@ChristopheChardon Жыл бұрын

thank's for the discovery ... fascinating

@thrassyvoulospapadopoulos3565 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark! He plays magnificently! A true joy so far!I I don't have the vinyl and that's got to change...

@giovannirivoira5496 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for allowinge this magnificent interpretation of 4th piano concerto.Goehr and especially Mewton Woods are superb.This rarity deserves all out thanks remembering that great pianista,unluckily disappeard too soon.

@MrKTaskov Жыл бұрын

A stunningly phenomenal performance of the well-known Beethoven concerto!

@Chrismacleod777 Жыл бұрын

What a magnificent performance of my favourite piano concerto! Thanks for posting! 💐🍒🌺🌸🦋🥰🎹🎶🌹😝👍😀

@pianomaly9 Жыл бұрын

With you all the way on this stellar performance. Near perfect venue resonance, and Goehr brings out instrumental details in a strong, convinced playing that often get buried. Shows that those two early LP labels featured more than ho-hum runthroughs by budget label B and C list artists.