Bruno Leonardo Gelber Beethoven Piano Sonatas 5 SACD TOWER RECORDS

Product introduction

This series has received high praise as a masterpiece that captures the essence of Beethoven. A total of 19 songs from 6 albums recorded on the DENON label from 1987 to 1995 are included for the first time on 5 discs in almost numerical order, with some exceptions! The world's first SACD with high resolution using ORT mastering!

Gelber has received overwhelming praise for his mainstream German works, centered on Beethoven and Brahms. This collection of sonatas, which is his life's work, has been selected and recommended by recording art magazines, including the French ADF Disc Award. Unfortunately, this project was finished without being completed, and the 6 discs were rearranged into 5 discs. Made into high resolution using ORT mastering technology originally developed by Nippon Columbia, and made into SACD for the first time. The sound field and sound quality have been improved vividly. The CD layer also uses this mastering sound source.

Bruno Leonardo Gerber (1941-), in his mid-40s, began recording Beethoven's piano sonatas on the DENON label with the aim of completing a complete collection, which attracted considerable attention at the time; As Naru No. 3, No. 5, No. 8 "Pathétique", and No. 20 were evaluated, expectations gradually grew. Many listeners remember that Gelber's performance, which had been a master of Beethoven's performance up until that point in his record history, had been very German-like and solid, and as a new era master of Beethoven, interest in his performance gradually increased due to the excellent recording quality. Probably. However, the second album that followed was recorded three months later, and although the third and fourth albums were also recorded a year apart, the fifth album was recorded more than two years later, and the sixth album was recorded after the previous album. Over the past three years, production has gradually become rarer. Of course, Gelber was especially famous among pianists as a perfectionist, and although he was aware that there were many cancellations at live performances, the listener had hoped for a complete collection that maintained the level of perfection until the end. I remember that it was very unfortunate that I had to go halfway. As expected, more than 30 years have passed since then, so I understand that it will be difficult to redo the project in the future, but performances with such a high level of perfection are still rare even today, and this is the best piano recording made by DENON's technical team at the time. We decided that it was worthwhile to revive these masterpieces with new ORT mastering, and decided to make them into SACDs. Not only the soft direct sound of the piano, but also the atmosphere of the scene is fully reproduced. In addition, although the recording locations are multiple in the Netherlands, France, and Switzerland, and the production team is also different in some parts, the wonderfully unified tone is still wonderful even today. Be sure to check out this rare recording, which contains an uncompromising performance and the strong feelings of the creator at the time.

This ORT mastering allows you to grasp the richness of indirect sounds and overtones, as well as the special features of individual recordings, more than ever before, so in that sense, it is a reprint that expands the way you enjoy playing. Nippon Columbia already had a lot of experience and know-how in digital recording since the late 1980s, and the sound quality itself was originally good and stable, so when mastering, we tried to make the sound quality more vivid than before. We hope that these latest reprints will further increase the reputation of these revived masterpieces.

Work information

Piano: Bruno-Leonard Gerber

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

Contents

Number of components | 2 pieces

Edition | Remaster

Track Listing:

Disc 1

1. Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Maurice Ravel)

2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, K.314

Disc 2

3. Richard Wagner: Lohengrin, Act III Prelude

4. Hector Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9

5. Ludwig van Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62

6. Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 No. 1 in G minor, No. 2 in D major,

     No. 5 in G minor, No. 6 in D major

7. Antonín Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 72, B.145: No. 10 in E minor

8. Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Dances, Op. 35: No. 2 in A major

9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Four German Dances, K.602: No. 3 in C major

10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Six German Dances, K.600: No. 5 in G major

11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Three German Dances, K.605: No. 3 in C major

12. Leningrad Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

recording

Late 1950s to early 1960s (stereo recording) *The recording date of each song is unknown, so the recording location and broadcast date are specified below to the extent known.

Pictures at an Exhibition (unknown), Flute Concerto (Broadcast at City Center Hall: May 8, 1960), Lohengrin (unknown), Roman Carnival (location unknown, broadcast: March 23, 1962), Coriolan (Suginami Public Hall Broadcast: June 8, 1960), Hungarian Dances No. 1 & 2 (unknown), Hungarian Dances No. 5 & 6 (location unknown, broadcast: October 18, 1959), Slavic Dances (location unknown, broadcast: May 8, 1960), Norwegian Dances (unknown), German Dances (unknown)

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