Alfred Brendel retired from public performances ten years ago, so it was a pleasure to discover two previously unreleased live recordings of music by Schumann and Brahms, broadcast on Austrian radio but only released on disc in March of this year.
He is joined by the Vienna Philharmonic and Simon Rattle for an energetic performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto, coupled with an interesting account of Brahms’ Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel for solo piano.
Here is the Schumann Piano Concerto from this recording:
