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満席の聴衆を圧倒したカーネギー・ライヴ!

トップ・スターの共演で聴く、この上なく美しいフォーレ、嵐のようなモーツァルト、圧倒的な官能美を聴かせるドヴォルザーク、という室内楽の名作3曲。世界で最も高い評価を得ているピアニストが室内楽作品を演奏する非常に貴重な公演を収録したもので、これらはドイツ・グラモフォンのレパートリー的にも至宝と言えましょう。数年前にキーシンとエマーソン弦楽四重奏団が共演するというアイディアが持ち上がるやいなや、5人全員がこのプランを熱狂的に受け入れ、彼らはこれまでに世界各地で共演を実施。そうしたツアーの集大成ともいえる音楽がここに息づいています。
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS

Chamber music collaborations featuring players who were already superstars in their own fields, were a fixture of the golden age of classical recordings on LP, but they've gradually fallen out of fashion. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as collaborations among highly individualistic players often leave a lot to be desired. It's been a while since a chamber music event was big enough to merit a title like "The New York Concert," and the Emerson String Quartet and pianist Evgeny Kissin certainly qualify as individualistic, but against the odds, this grouping works big-time. Kissin is not known as a chamber player, but he often seems to set the pace, backing off nicely when necessary, but also inserting a note of tension that causes the quartet to respond. The results in the Dvorak Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81, are nothing short of sublime. Sample the slow movement, marked with the folk-dance term "Dumka." Kissin here leads a unique interpretation, pressing against the folk rhythms and producing a piece of deep, tense melancholy. You might expect the group to overpower the Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478, but they do not, and their reading of this unsettled work is deeply persuasive. You might not pick any of these musicians as Faure interpreters, either, but even here they do well. The encore is the Scherzo from the Shostakovich Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 57 and the minatory vigor of this reading gets a big cheer from the New York audience at the end. It's well deserved, all the way though. Perhaps it was the space, Carnegie Hall, that inspired these musicians to step forward and fill it; the engineers certainly did their part. A major chamber music event.