Bashkirov’s unreleased first-prize Brahms concerto

Bashkirov’s unreleased first-prize Brahms concerto

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norman lebrecht

March 20, 2021

This is the late lamented Dmitry Bashkirov playing the second Brahms concerto at the Marguerite Long Piano Competition in 1955, where he won first prize.

The orchestra is variable and Bashkirov has a few fingerslips, but the intensity of his playing is arresting.

 

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