Backhaus collectors: 3 concertos in 4 CDs on Memories

weary flake

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Sep 14, 2012, 4:45:20 PM9/14/12

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here's the broinc.com listing:

Mozart, Piano Concerto #27 [two 'live' performances by Wilhelm Backhaus
and Karl Bohm conducting the Vienna Philharmonic. Rec. 1/29/56 and
8/2/60]. Beethoven, Piano Concerto #4 [two 'live' Wilhelm Backhaus
performances: w.New York Philharmonic/ Guido Cantelli, 3/18/56; w.Vienna
Philharmonic/ Hans Knappertsbusch, 1/17/56]; Piano Concerto #5
'Emperor'. (Three 'live' Wilhelm Backhaus performances: w.Stuttgart
Radio Orchestra/ Joseph Keilberth, 3/17/53; w.Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra/ Franz Konwitschny, 4/20/60; w.Swiss-Italian Radio Orchestra/
Carl Schuricht, 4/27/61)

I haven't listened to mine yet, but I can suggest right off that
the date given for the Kna performance is off by a digit, and is
not 1956 or as the back of the Memories case says 1957, but really
17/January/1954 which is on a number of labels, as is the Cantelli
performance. Or did Knappertsbutsch/Backhaus/Vienna really play a
live performance of the 4th concerto on 1/17/54, 1/17/56 and
1/17/57, spurring my completist urge to look for a 1/17/55.

The other 6 performances are unfamiliar to me.

Dufus

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Sep 15, 2012, 8:13:25 AM9/15/12

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>On Sep 14, 3:45 pm, weary flake <wearyfl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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I think the 1956 Mozart with Bohm was also released on a London Decca
cd which I have , paired with the Brahms 2nd Concerto from 1967.Both
are excellent. The Beethoven 4th live with Knappertsbusch is also on
YouTube, again wonderful. The 1961 "Emperor" with Schuricht I have not
heard, but is thought by some to be Backhaus' best concerto
performance period. Good choice.

Dufus

weary flake

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Oct 8, 2012, 12:22:05 AM10/8/12

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Excuse me, it's the 5 other performances that are unfamiliar
to me as I miscounted 8 performances when there are 7.
Unfortunately, the first disc with Knappertsbusch on the
Beethoven 4th is flawed, sourced from a bad tape of something,
with flutter off and on, especially for a few seconds at 2:30
into the first movement, and 1:05 into the second movement.
I don't recollect such noises with the other CDs I have of
the Jan 17, 1954 performance, for example the Living Stage
CDs which I just checked comparing the snippets in question.
I'll have to hear another day whether the three other CDs are
good.

priyanka patel

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Oct 8, 2012, 4:01:53 AM10/8/12

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weary flake

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Oct 11, 2012, 4:50:38 PM10/11/12

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The other concertos don't have the irritating tape (or whatever
it is) problems that the Knap/LvB4th/1954 has but I found an additional
contradiction in the program listing on the back of the case:
Memories MR2198/2201 gives a date of 17/March/1953 for Keilberth
(SWR-RSO Stuttgart) conducting the Beethoven 5th concerto but my
Living Stage LS 1001 gives that date to Knappertsbusch (Berliner
Philharmoniker) to the same concerto with Backhaus.