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This soloist-led performance offers a sort of “kinder, gentler” Beethoven. Jan Talich’s lyrical way with the music is far removed from the broad-shouldered style usually
A previous Audite release introduced the string quartets of Eduard Franck, a friend and pupil of Felix Mendelssohn (see review Q6308). His eldest son Richard
Yuri Mazurkevich gives a powerful, flowing account of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, one that emphasizes the music’s lyricism and emotional expressiveness. He takes special care with
EMI’s inclusion of Paul Kletzki among the elite podium masters represented in its Great Conductors of the 20th Century series surely is one of its
Leaving aside the artistic merits of these arrangements (type Q3607 in Search Reviews), this multi-channel SACD version of the Bell/Brohn homage to Bernstein reveals both
Decca’s Prokofiev compilation offers all of the composer’s concerted works in one three-disc package. The main attraction, the 1975 Ashkenazy/Previn Piano Concerto cycle, offers Ashkenazy’s
It’s good to see this collection of Saint-Saëns piano concertos coming back in tandem with such rarities as Cyprès et Lauriers for Organ and Orchestra,
APR’s second volume devoted to pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch’s Beethoven features the pianist’s previously unissued recording of the Kreutzer sonata with violinist Jascha Heifetz. Little interpretive
Some recordings of Bartok’s Violin Concerto emphasize the work’s romantic and lyrical tendencies, while others play up its abrasive and acerbic nature. Of the former
This recent volume in the Philips Duo 20th Century Classics series focuses on the violin concertos of the 1900s, specifically works by Shostakovich, Bartok, Elgar,
