Barber: Violin Concerto; Cello Concerto; Piano Concerto
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Composer: Samuel BarberConductor: Leonard Slatkin
Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Performer: John Browning
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-03-22
Music Label: RCA
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Music Review: A Winning Combo of Barber Concerti
Rating: 5 Stars
For those who want to one-stop-shop for Barber's three solo concerti, it doesn't get much better than this disc.
Conductor Leonard Slatkin has a firm sense of the overall pulse in Barber's music; he rivals Marin Alsop in not allowing drama to overshadow lyricism. With Slatkin we take time to smell the flowers but know we're not going to be abandoned in the meadow to find our own way home, as I occasionally feel about Marin Alsop's performances on Naxos (as fine as those traversals are otherwise).
Pianist John Browning practically owned the Piano Concerto throughout his career. Barber wrote it for him, and no one has yet come close to his authority or understood it as fully. Even if he is competing against his much younger self, what this performance lacks in sheer adrenaline compared to the première recording with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra is more than made up for in a nourishing chiaroscuro of intrigue and sultry seduction.
Like Browning in the Piano Concerto, Kyoko Takezawa understates the overall thrust of the Violin Concerto with a sighing, sweetly smiling beguilement and some surprises at the more explosive moments. Everything feels totally intuitive, improvisatory and rapt, with Slatkin following his soloist with the utmost flexibility and sensitivity. Move over, Stern and Bernstein - you have some serious competition!
No less impressive are Slatkin and Steven Isserlis in a persuasive and impassioned Cello Concerto - the least known of Barber's three concertos and, while a piece that never fully came together for the composer, one not deserving its relative neglect. Wendy Warner, Marin Alsop and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra gamely hold their own on Naxos, with the spaciousness and allowance for drama to unfold on its own terms even while highlighting. Isserlis and Slatkin are no less mindful of this work's (and Barber's overall) inherent songfulness, but with a more overtly outgoing attitude and tighter rein on Barber's occasional tendency to wander, their performance is at least as approachable and perhaps more engaging.
If you have no other Barber in your collection -- except perhaps for the Adagio for Strings, which turns up everywhere -- make sure that you have this disc.
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