 | Jacqueline du Pre - Favourite Cello Concertos ~ Boccherini, Dvorak, Elgar, Haydn, Monn, Saint-Saens, Schumann [Read More ...]
Description: During her far-too-brief career, cellist Jacqueline du Pré exhibited an almost oracular power of communication. Her performances bristled with the kind of brilliant electricity that could change lives and convert listeners to a lifelong love of music. Happily, it's possible to e... |
 | Johannes Brahms: The Symphonies [Read More ...]
Review: Un-sensational Brahms:One generally tends to think of Georg Solti as a sensationalistic conductor--going for spectacular orchestral effects even at the expense of line, structure and mood. Whether this generalization is in any sense apt is an open question, but it certainly does... |
 | Beethoven: The Piano Concertos [Read More ...]
Description: Each of these performances has its own profile. The orchestra plays incisively in the First Concerto, but Ashkenazy's plush lyricism doesn't make a good match either with the orchestra or with the music, and he makes one weird ritard in the first movement. The Second Concerto is ... |
 | Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies [Read More ...]
Review: Absolutely terrific set by first rate performers! :It is my by far most loved rendition of Beethoven. It is so well perfoemd, easy on ear and top notch recorded. It is not boring and over-hyped "standard hysterical Karajan" version of force-fed Beethoven.
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 | Jacqueline du Pré - The Concerto Collection [Read More ...]
Review: The fallen angel of the cello!:
This year, Jacqueline du Prè should be it her 62, but as you know the cruel fate was a undesirable barrier that took over the world one of the maxim exponents of this instrument.
Jacqueline was born blessed by the touch of genius. Her vibrant per... |
 | Mahler - The Symphonies / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [Read More ...]
Description: György Solti has come in for his share of hard knocks as a Mahler interpreter, and no one will pretend that he has the same sort of intuitive empathy for this music that Leonard Bernstein has. But he does have the Chicago Symphony Orchestra--no mean advantage--and many of the... |
 | Les introuvables de Jacqueline du Pré [Read More ...]
Description: Although most of this set is devoted to major cello concertos (Elgar, Saint-Saëns, Dvorák, Schumann, Haydn) that Du Pré played so well, perhaps the most treasurable recording is one of two Beethoven cello sonatas with the pianist Stephen Bishop (Kovacevich). Recorded very e... |
 | Beethoven: The Symphonies [Read More ...]
Review: Best Beethoven Cycle for the Money:With many apologies to the grumpy naysayers in these reviews, this is the best Beethoven symphony cycle for the money. I own three cycles and have heard countless others. These performances are consistently accurate, completely committed, and ... |
 | Anton Bruckner: The Symphonies [Read More ...]
Review: Solti's Bruckner Is Far Better Than Its Reputation:Lately I have been reconsidering the work of Georg Solti, a conductor often maligned by music critics. Frankly, those negative reviews have until recently kept me from hearing some fine performances, like a number of those in So... |
 | Mahler: Symphony No.8 [Read More ...]
Description: The dionysiac power and sonic splendor of this landmark 1971 recording continues to pack a wallop in the digital age. If Solti had recorded nothing else, this alone would have ensured the late conductor's formidable Mahler reputation. But why isn't London's single disc remasterin... |
 | A Portrait of Pavarotti [Read More ...]
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 | The Recorded Cello, Vol.I [Read More ...]
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 | Pierre Boulez ~ Schoenberg · Berio · Carter · Kurtág · Xenakis [Read More ...]
Description: Collecting five CDs for about the price of three, this set of Boulez recordings is without parallel among the conductor's new-music releases. Imagine getting Boulez's celebrated single CD of Luciano Berio's Sinfonia and Eindrücke and his equally impressive single CD of Arnold Sc... |
 | For a Day in Your Life [Read More ...]
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 | Sony Classical: Great Performances 1903-1998 [Read More ...]
Review: Mish Mash:While I like this sort of recording I bought it only because it was quite cheap in the used section. It has some very interesting moments, but of course is little more than a "sampler" if you will, and one that is too stuffed with a variety performers that don't necess... |
 | Rubinstein Collection, Vol. 53 [Read More ...]
Vote Kerry:The Schumann is very well played. The highlight of the disc, however< is the Saint-Saens concerto. |
 | The Essential Leontyne Price [Read More ...]
Description: This 11-CD set, one might say jokingly, contains all the music ever written for the soprano voice and a bit for mezzo as well. And indeed, it's a staggering collection: In addition to her great Verdi heroines (the two Leonoras, Aida, Amelia, and Elvira in Ernani), Price is heard ... |
 | The Art Of Alfred Brendel [Read More ...]
Review: A great compilation:Ever since I got a disc of Alfred Brendel playing Beethoven's favourite piano sonatas, I've had a special attention for his recordings and his view on music. To me, he is one of the best examples of a perfectionist. Lazy listeners call his way of playing pedan... |
 | Deutsche Grammophon Centenary Collection, 1978-1987 (Box Set) [Read More ...]
Description: This is the decade when Deutsche Grammophon discovered America. Though the label's motherland is still well represented by Herbert von Karajan's unveiling young Anne-Sophie Mutter in Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 and Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 (both played with the freshness ... |
