NELSON FREIRE - Memories: The Unreleased Recordings 1970 - 2019

Decca (UMO) / Classics / Decca

£15.68

Format: 2 x CD
Catalogue No.: 4853136
Barcode: 0028948531363
Release Date: 14 Oct 2022
Genre: Classical

On November 21st 2021, Nelson Freire was taken before his time. One year on, we remember him with a new collection of previously unreleased Decca recordings, bonus tracks making their debut on disc and rare radio broadcast tapes; some of Nelson’s finest performances from a time he rarely recorded commercially. The collection is accompanied by a new essay by Dominic Fyfe, Nelson’s long-time Decca producer.

The Berlin Sessions

- Rediscovered, unreleased recordings from 2014 of Gluck, Bach and Beethoven’s Andante favori – his only recording of this piece

Rare Radio Tapes

- Broadcast concerto performances from 1970-1985 including Beethoven 4 and Brahms 2, Bartok 1 and Richard Strauss’ Burleske

New to CD

- Bonus tracks never before released on CD including music by his beloved Villa-Lobos and Debussy

TRACKLIST:
CD1
‘The Berlin Sessions, 2014’ (Track 1-3)
1. **Gluck arr. Sgambati: Mélodie (Dance of the Blessed Spirits) from Orpheus ed Euridice
2. **J.S. Bach arr. Hess: Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
3. **Beethoven: Andante favori in F, WoO 57
4-6. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4 in G major, Op.58 (Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR/Uri Segal) – SWR, 6 October 1972
7. **Beethoven: Bagatelle, Op. 119 No.11 – Andante, ma non troppo
8. R. Strauss: Burleske für Klavier und Orchester dMoll, AV 85 (SWF-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden/Zoltan Pesko) – SWF, 10 December 1985
9. **Debussy: La Plus Que Lente
10. **Villa-Lobos: Preludio (Introdução) (No. 1 from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4)

CD2
1-3. Bartók: Piano Concerto No.1 (Sz.83, BB91) (Frankfurt Radio Symphony/Michael Gielen) – Hessischer Rundfunk, 22-23 October 1970
4-7. Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat major, Op.83 (Frankfurt Radio Symphony/Horst Stein) – Hessicher Rundfunk, 28 March – 1 April 1977
8. **Brahms: Intermezzo, Op.118 No.2 in A major