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Canadian cellist Zara Nelsova (her parents were Russian emigres) was known in the 1950s as the “Queen of the Cello”. This disc of 1953 and
Compared to EMI’s 1992 CD reissue of Thomas Beecham’s 1959 Franck and Lalo symphonies, Andrew Walter’s remastering for the label’s Great Artists of the Century
This well-filled disc contains extremely distinguished performances of all three works, particularly the Lalo, a piece that so often winds up being merely annoying but
Here’s another outstanding disc by Maxim Vengerov, a successful frontal assault on three showpiece pillars of French Romanticism. The Lalo and the Saint-Saëns were written
There isn’t a pressing need for a new recording of Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole, even in such an elegant performance as this. Mark Kaplan is an
You have to be stuck playing snare drum or triangle in the Symphonie espagnole’s finale, after six long rehearsals in as many days with a
Dvorák’s Violin Concerto sits awkwardly with Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole on this Virgin “The Classics” reissue. In the former, violinist Christian Tetzlaff takes a powerfully robust
Edouard Lalo’s early training as a cellist reveals itself throughout his two principal works for the instrument. The Sonata is all but unplayed and rarely
Pierre Fournier’s accounts of the Lalo and Saint-Saëns cello concertos never have been surpassed in their elegance, musicality, naturalness of phrasing, and sense of logic.
The gimmick here is Vadim Repin’s use of same “Ruby” Stradivarius that Pablo de Sarasate played at the premiere of the Symphonie espagnole. Of course,
