00:00 Allegro ma non troppo 18:08 Allegro appassionato 27:00 Andante 38:46 Allegretto grazioso live, Carnegie Hall March 6, 1973 National Orchestral Association Leon Barzin, conductor se: faculty.evansville.edu/gu2/in...
Compare this masterful performance with Mr. Simon's interview when he recalls being informed he was to play Brahms B-flat before he actually ever learned it! I went to college in Indianapolis while Mr. Simon was at I.U. I heard him many times, and later studied with him at Juilliard. A great pianist and wonderful, man!
Have always seen Simon's name in Klavier and other magazines but had never heard him . Grateful all of these live performances now being released or rather put on RU-vid . He plays the long section after the beginning very sensibly and differently from all the many pianists and the next extended section very individually . Ther is something very American about his Brahms . Direct like Rubinstein but accents and phrasing like I've never heard before . Barzin really gets a performance out of his orchestra.Every phrase of Simon is shaped ! The appasionato is also interesting sounds as if he has taken the dust off . Somehow everything seems different in this reading .
I love these great live performances! You hear a wrong note or two, which is the real experience of a concert. Not the studio perfection that comes from professional editing and splicing.
