Pfitzner & Braunfels: Piano Concertos

The Braunfels—a concerto in all but name—and Pfitzner make an apt pairing, two works dating from the twilight of German Romanticism. Both are heroically dispatched by Markus Becker, with Constantin Trinks and his Berlin Radio Symphony forces providing idiomatic support.

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‘If pressed to choose I’d opt for Becker and Trinks [over Barto and Thielemann], principally because of the way they balance the sum of the [Pfitzner] concerto’s substantial parts, and their generally ...
‘Markus Becker plays [the Pfitzner] superbly and confidently throughout even in the most heavily scored passages, and the orchestra under Constantin Trinks are responsive and idiomatic … again Be ...
‘Volume 79 in Hyperion's remarkable Romantic Piano Concerto series contains two works that were written well into the 20th century. Both works betray something of the ever-changing musical world into ...