Pfitzner & Braunfels: Piano Concertos
Markus Becker (piano), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Constantin Trinks (conductor)
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The Braunfels—a concerto in all but name—and Pfitzner make an apt pairing, two works dating from the twilight of German Romanticism. Both are heroically dispatched by Markus Becker, with Constantin Trinks and his Berlin Radio Symphony forces providing idiomatic support.