Interview
Murray Perahia on his thoughts and feelings about music
Murray Perahia and Simon Rattle with Schumann’s Piano Concerto
Murray Perahia is one of the great poets among pianists, as this performance of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto reveals. Its qualities – melodic playing, gentle story-telling and Romantic rhapsodising – are brilliantly realised by Perahia. Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem is a similarly sensitive work: a funeral mass of almost serene tranquillity. Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Rundfunkchor Berlin.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
Murray Perahia
Kate Royal
Christian Gerhaher
Rundfunkchor Berlin
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