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Brahms with Orchestre National de France.


GOOD BRAHMS and NOT SO GOOD!!!

Review by Henning Høholt

Kurt Masur

PARIS: We attended the Brahms concert with Orchestre National de France Thursday January 17th at Théâtre des Champs Élysées in Paris for a Brahms evening conducted by Kurt Masur, which opened with Johannes Brahms Symphony no 3, which was extraordinary good and outstanding, and with Elisabeth Leonskaja as piano soloist in Brahms Piano Concerto no 2 after the break, which unfortunately not was satisfying.

The Brahms Symphony no 3 was a hit
. The Orchestre National de France played absolutely wonderful, and with Kurt Masur on the podium, something extraordinary and amazing happens
. It is a pleasure to listen to his orchestra, and enjoy all the outstanding soloists, and how great a sound in all the groups
. BRAVO
.

 

Elisabeth Leonskaja

In the Brahms 2nd Concerto for piano and Orchestra

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. The Orchestra also played wonderful as in the Symphony, but unfortunately Elisabeth Leonskajas piano part was not satisfying. This concerto, as in fact all the Brahms pianoconcertos does, need muscles, and an outstanding technique, as the concerto is full of parts where it is the one big accord after the other which is being presented in the piano tune. It needs extraordinary power sometimes.  I had the feeling that ms. Leonskaja was playing the Concerto as if it was a Mozart or Mendelsohn Piano Concerto, light and elegant, but for Brahms that don´t work. It don´t seems that she has the technically updated capacity to play such a demanding concerto, and therefore it was unsatisfying for the audience. She should keep her repertoire in the level, where she has the capacity to play it, and not try to play something too big for her.

 

 

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