CD, стоящие на полке рядом : Classics (Guru)      

The heart of this collection is 15 of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words, those eternally lovely miniatures, well selected and played by Perahia with the lyrical sense the music needs. Too bad he didn't record them all. The disc opens with four of Busoni's Bach transcriptions, all organ chorale preludes based on sung hymns (hence the connection and the title). These, too, are well done, very clear and fleet and with impressive agility in "Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein." The conclusion is four of Liszt's brilliant arrangements of Schubert songs, again played with wonderful lyricism and some high drama that indicates Perahia knows the original songs and their texts very well. Despite the title, the album isn't totally congruent, but everything on it is well worth hearing

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Grammy Award-winning artist Murray Perahia returns to the romantic keyboard music which originally won him acclaim. In the wake of his overwhelming critical success of the music of Bach, Handel and Scarlatti, he now makes the piano sing with Liszt's transcriptions of Schubert's haunting lieder, Busoni's revisiting of Bach, and a selection of pieces by Mendelssohn from the work which inspired this album.

The release of Songs Without Words comes on the heels of Perahia's award-winning foray into the keyboard music of J.S. Bach with his recordings of the composer's English Suites. Perahia's recording of the English Suites Nos.1, 3 and 6 (SK 60276) won a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Performance as well as Classic CD magazine's award for Best Instrumental Disc of 1998. The remaining English Suites Nos. 2, 4 and 5 (SK 60277) were released in January 1999.

In addition to the Mendelssohn Songs Without Words, Perahia also plays four solo transcriptions by Mendelssohn's contemporary Franz Liszt of well-known lieder by Franz Schubert: "Auf dem Wasser zu singen", "Erlkonig", and from the collection known as Schwanengesang, "In der Ferne" and "Standchen".

All Music Guide