On the online shop is now available a new SWF product, D13, featuring the concert given by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra on 27 August 1947:
– Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 with Adrian Aeschbacher,
– Beethoven: Leonore III Overture,
– Brahms: Symphony No. 1
The Concerto is played by a young man and... an older man. But who is the younger of the two? As for the Symphony, performed by a white-hot orchestra, there's nothing mellow about it, like the various Viennese versions. It is rather similar to the one performed three years later in Amsterdam.
The product is available as a download (HD and CD format) from the shop, priced at €14, and as a streaming album for those who have subscribed to the service. Please note that the digital package comes with a detailed booklet featuring a host of rare photos.
This edition differs from its predecessors (we published it as an LP many years ago...) by using the original source digitised in high definition.
Christophe Hénault — to whom we owe most of our reissues over the last few years — has kept the processing to a minimum so as not to 'dumb down' the musical message. Read the article "Some technical background".
