Live in Zurich 1966: Arthur Rubinstein – review

(ICA Classics)Another ICA Classics remastering to recommend is this fascinating collection of live recordings by Rubinstein in the last decade of his career. The orchestral sound is dated and cramped in Brahms's second concerto but Rubinstein's playing is wonderfully fresh, modern and inspired, wrong notes and all. That mercurial, unmannerly generosity extends to his readings of Chopin's Nocturne in D flat major (recorded in Nijmegen in 1963) and to Falla's exhilarating "Ritual Fire Dance". Exce...

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