Itzhak Perlman: Beethoven/Brahms Violin Concertos
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Brand: EMDDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: EMI Classics
DVD Reviews of Itzhak Perlman: Beethoven/Brahms Violin Concertos
DVD Review: One of the best DVDs of classical music.
Summary: 5 Stars
I know this two concerts since a long time ago, from the time when I played violin when I was a child, and I'm still in love with them, a long relation that grows every time I listen and understand deeper this wonderful scores.
After having some other versions of the works I finally bought, in the `90s the Beethoven & Brahms concertos played by Perlman & Berlin & Barenboim (EMI), the couple I think give the best for this two masterworks. Brahms version I had on CD (EMI 7 54580 2; released too in mid price: 5 62598 2) is the same you can watch and listen now in this wonderful live DVD from the Schauspielhaus in Berlin, recorded in 1992. Beethoven's Concerto is a different version than the CD I had, EMI 7 49567 2, which was recorded live in Berlin, but in the Philharmonie a year before. Both performances are wonderful but I have to say I prefer a bit more the CD one from the Philharmonie.
So, what we have here is an outstanding DVD, one of the better I know in classical music. It use to happen we have on DVD some concerts not very good and finding this level of excellence is something really grateful for all those who love this music. From the technical point of view, the realization is very correct, modern and well done, with lot of good takes of Perlman's playing and some good medium and general takes of the orchestra and the scene.
The performances are so great as we know from the CDs, based on a very idiomatic versions, in really german style. I've listened lot of versions of this two concerts played by some outstanding violinist and conductors, but no one with the inspiration and technical precision of this EMI recording, developed with a great germanic taste in the way they play this music.
It's very well known Daniel Barenboim's affinity with the music of the genius from Bonn and you can listen it very clearly in this live-recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker, in my opinion the most beethovenian orchestra in the world, much more than the Wiener, because of the very german sound the berliners have, a very complex concept to explain but very easy to recognize if you are used to listed some compared versions between the most strong, deep, dense and male Berliner Philharmoniker, and the most clear, opened, crystal-built, and female sound of the Wiener; a difference that was appointed by many artists in different areas of arts and philosophy.
So, what we have here is a high performance, from the technical point of view and from the sense of the performance, a really beethovenian-language version, built up with the conviction and the strong stream Barenboim creates with the orchestral sound. Perlman gives his best in one of his top performances, in my opinion better than the recording with Carlo Maria Giulini for EMI label too. As I wrote before, I prefer a bit more CD release with the two romances, but this is outstanding too.
In the case of Brahms's Concerto I have to say that I prefer a little more Perlman & Giulini's version released by EMI on CD (Mid price No. 5 66992 2), a studio recording wonderfully performed. This one on DVD is a bit more european in the way the berliners play, and in the more german way Barenboim conducts, based on the own Beethoven's Concerto as the origin of the late romantic Violin Concertos.
The sound it's not bad at all. Of course it's not the best DDD recording I've listened, but it can be enjoyable with a good Hi-Fi system. It's well known that EMI recordings use to be poor sometimes, specially in live-recordings, but this is correct enough. The image is great. I use to watch it in a Philips Pixel Plus 2, which improve the image very much, but I think it could be good enough in any TV.
The final conclusion is this is a DVD for not mi missed, a jewel to be enjoyed with your eyes and with your ears.
Description of Itzhak Perlman: Beethoven/Brahms Violin Concertos
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