COMPOSERS: Brahms
LABELS: Decca
WORKS: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2
PERFORMER: Clifford Curzon (piano); LSO/Szell; Vienna PO/Knappertsbusch
CATALOGUE NO: 478 1386 Reissue (1958/62)
Curzon’s 1962 account of Brahms No. 1 with Szell remains one of the work’s finest recordings: noble, dramatic, poetic. His Brahms No. 2 with Knappertsbusch is excellent too. Tim Parry