Brendel: Early Concerto Recordings
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Piano Concerto (1942)
- Südwestfunkorchester Baden-Baden, Gielen
- Piano Concerto (1942)
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Piano Concerto No. 5 in G Major, Op. 55
- Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper / Jonathan Sternberg
- Piano Concerto No. 5 in G Major, Op. 55
- W.A. Mozart
- Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat Major, K. 595 Volksoper
- Wien Orchester / Paul Angerer
- Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat Major, K. 595 Volksoper
- Alfred Brendel, piano
- rec. 5/1957 (Schoenberg); 1/1951 (Prokofiev); 4/1958 (Mozart)
Pristine Audio PASC659 [74:54]
Born in Czechoslovakia, Viennese pianist-scholar Alfred Brendel (b. 1931) retains a cult following despite his retirement from the active concert stage in 2008, and he receives acclaim for his essays on music and the broad range of his recordings, which embraces the greater part of the Vienna-German-Hungarian tradition. In 1948, in Graz, Brendel gave a recital, the result of his studies with Edward Steuermann and Edwin Fischer. Essentially, Brendel considered himself an auto-didact, free to roam the keyboard repertory unrestricted by dogma and just as free to invent his own solutions to musical problems.