这张唱片标题为‘无词歌’，但内容其实并非全是门德尔松的那套‘无词歌’集中的作品，更非门德尔松的无词歌集全曲。而是以门德尔松的无词歌为主，另外又加了巴赫（布梭尼改编）和舒伯特（李斯特改编）的一些如歌的曲子。唱片被企鹅评为三星带花，数字录音很美，演奏的分句也十分优雅，是一张久听不腻的钢琴大家小品曲集精品。专辑中有一首李斯特改编的舒伯特小夜曲，这首曲子佩拉西亚和他的再传老师霍洛维茨都有数字录音留下，有兴趣的朋友可以对比欣赏一下。
The elegant and clean lyricism of Murray Perahia's playing fits this program of piano songs without words to a tee. Perahia has always had a wonderful knack for teasing out singing contrapuntal lines that other pianists ignore. Far from sounding willful, such interpretative playing seems to reveal music that one should have been hearing all along. Consequently, Perahia lends all music that falls under his hands a decidedly polyphonic cast. It is therefore not surprising that Perahia renders the richly textured Bach-Busoni chorale transcription, "Nun freut euch, lieben Christen," with unstudied charm. Similarly, in Mendelssohn's 'Songs without Words,' Perahia projects more that composers championing of Bach than his Romantic pioneering. Perahia's playing of Liszt's transcriptions of Schubert songs is virtuosic without being showy. Even in the tour-de-force final strophe of "Auf dem Wasser zu singen," Perahia stresses the singing of individual lines over theatrical dazzle.

ClassicsToday.com 10/10

Murray Perahia's account of the Grieg Concerto is utterly absorbing. The playing is brilliant, but the pianist's approach--more Chopinesque than Lisztian--keeps that brilliance at the service of larger expressive goals. The result is a performance aglow with understated intensity, one in which the prevalent feeling is often melancholy, at times even bleak. Sir Colin Davis draws a wonderfully refined accompaniment from the Bavarian orchestra in this live reading of the score. The recording, from Munich's Philharmonic Hall, is excellent and effectively captures the beautiful tone Perahia coaxes from his piano. --Ted Libbey

美国钢琴家 Murray Perahia 演奏巴赫《哥德堡变奏曲》，比肩 Gould 的对这部伟大的键盘音乐的优异诠释，精准流畅，完美无瑕。