Prokoviev concerto no.2 - which recording?

[stucoy]

Can anyone recommend a recording of Prokofiev's 2nd concerto? I'm especially looking for someone who handles the 1st movement cadenza very well. Who's recording is the most awesome?

[rob47]

HORACIO GUTIÉRREZ

Bolet also but he harshly makes a big cut

[retrouvailles]

HORACIO GUTIÉRREZ

Bolet also but he harshly makes a big cut

I agree 100%. You can't do better than Gutiérrez. Malcolm Frager is another great choice.

[arensky]

HORACIO GUTIÉRREZ

The best I ever heard.

[stucoy]

There seems to be a consensus, which is good. Thanks

[m]

HORACIO GUTIÉRREZ

Indeed, it is a very good performance... with all my reservations...

Best, M

[cmg]

It is excellent, but John Browning did him better way back in the 1960s, on RCA, I believe with Szell conducting.  Naturally, that recording is no longer available.

[argerichfan]

It is excellent, but John Browning did him better way back in the 1960s, on RCA, I believe with Szell conducting.  Naturally, that recording is no longer available.

I believe it was with Leinsdorf and the BSO.  Thought I saw it as a re-release in the shops a few years ago, but I might have been hallucinating. 

[retrouvailles]

The one with Leinsdorf is another recording. I have heard that one and I did not think too much of it. I hope the Szell recording is much better.

[cmg]

I believe it was with Leinsdorf and the BSO.  Thought I saw it as a re-release in the shops a few years ago, but I might have been hallucinating. 

No, you're absolutely right and thanks for letting me know it exists out there.  It's on Testament.  All the piano concerti with Browning/Leinsdorf/BSO.  My memory was off about it being RCA and Szell.  I mixed it up with Browning/Szell/Cleveland's world premier recording of Barber's Concerto -- which is unsurpassed, even by Browning himself in a later remake.

Here's the link to Amazon for the Prokofiev, and the two reviews indicate that maybe my memory of Browning's powerful Second Prokofiev Concerto recording is not just a delusion on my part.

https://www.amazon.com/review/product/B0007VXZE0/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_img?%5Fencoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

[alessandro]

A more recent one, poignant performance is Anna Vinnitskaya 's in the year 2007 during Queen Elisabeth Contest, recorded, and distributed the same year by Cypress Recordings...  A very good orchestra too.  There's also a nice series of recordings in the year 1997 by Alexander Toradze (piano) and Gergiev (conductor) by Philips...

[communist]

Vladimir Feltsman