OT: Boulez/Tetzlaff/Uchida

[cilea]

This sounds interesting: A new disc of Mozart's Gran Partita and Berg's Chamber Concerto by Ensemble InterContemporain under Boulez with Christian Tetzlaff and Mitsuko Uchida as soloists in the Berg piece.

http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product//4780316.htm

I've enjoyed tremendously their (Boulez/Uchida) previous Schoenberg et al. disc and so am really looking forward to this one too.

[Polarius T]

Yes, that will be most interesting to hear. For one thing, Uchida and Tetzlaff are so very different kind of musicians compared to Barenboim and Zukerman in that previous take of the Berg. I was kind of taken a back a little by Tetzlaff's Bach (it was so high-powered and steely) but his virtuosity is not in question and I'm curious about how he's matured. Uchida's tone production I'd take to be a curious proposition when it comes to Berg, who is so ultra-Romantic still in so many ways affecting his tonal imagination.

But no less am I looking forward to the Gran Partita... Boulez is amazing; look at his age and he's still conquering new ground (he did conduct some concertos in London with the BBC orchestra in the early '70s, IIRC, but that's about something completely different), setting standards along the way.

-PT