Gramophone Awards 2012 to pianist Murray Perahia, conductor ...

Gramphone magazine's prestigious recordings awards include honors for pianist Murray Perahia and conductor Claudio Abbado. Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja was named Artist of the Yearand 20-year-old pianist Benjamin Grosvenor was named Young Artist of the Year.?
Perahia wins in a new category: the "Piano Award." And in choosing Abbado's recording of "Fidelio," critic Richard Osborne writes:

"The revised dialogue provided by stage director Tatjana G?rbaca is not without controversy. In Act 1, her cuts and rewrites remove all hint of domesticity and private affection; in Act 2, she omits just about everything. The result is Beethoven?s lofty Singspiel recast as musical meta-theatre. Happily, the cast is as fine as any that might be assembled today and Abbado himself conducts a performance the like of which we have not heard since the time of Furtw?ngler. It is a no-frills yet at the same time deeply expressive reading which goes like a bolted arrow directly to the heart of the matter. If Fidelio speaks as no other opera does of the miraculous resilience of the human spirit, Claudio Abbado?s late re-creation of it serves only to compound that miracle."

-- David Stabler

Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/performance/index.ssf/2012/09/gramophone_awards_2012_to_pian.html

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