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Excellent recordings of these two magnificent works are not lacking. Rostropovich and Ormandy set the standard in the First Concerto, while Schiff/Maxim Shostakovich, with the
Cellist Daniel Müller-Schott and André Previn team up for an absolutely outstanding coupling of the two most important English cello concertos. Every recording of the
This is one of those releases that disarms criticism. These works offer no major technical challenges to modern players; the only real issue is whether
The Violin Concerto is arguably Brahms’ finest work in the concerto medium. He was always at his best when facing a serious musical challenge, in
PentaTone’s imposing multi-channel engineering envelops you within this young ensemble’s energetic virtuosity and wide dynamic spectrum, as if you had a close-up seat at a
The opening of Trio No. 6 (placed first on the disc) does not bode well: the initial exchange between violin and piano seems to promise
Schubert’s Quintet in C is one of those pieces that seems to bring out the best in most of the groups that play it–or at
The catalog of Bach Cello Suite recordings is starting to burst at the seams, especially with the proliferation of re-issued classics. Plus, listeners have to
