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Title: Simply astounding piano concerto
Review: I bought this cd about 15 years ago. The label is RCA Classics: Classical Navigator. I paid under four dollars for it, new.What more can I say about the piano concerto that A Customer hasn`t yet already so aptly mentioned. Baekkelund and Gruner-Hegge simply let the concerto`s poetry flow by itself, without any obvious, pretentious mannerisms by the players and Baekkelund himself. The adagio is a careful study of hushed beauty and delicacy. I dare not even breathe when I listen to the whole movement. The final movement`s last dozen or so notes wrest your soul into the heavens, which no other recording of this concerto has ever done.Of the very many piano concerto performances I own, this one is unequivocably the BEST ONE. Enough said.Sometimes, simple is best. Baekkelund`s performance here is the perfect example of this.The HIGHEST recommendation.
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