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 | 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... |
 | Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies and Piano Concertos [Read More ...]
Description: Otto Klemperer's Beethoven is one of the towering achievements in the history of recordings. By today's standards, these performances are hopelessly old-fashioned: dark, heavy, and frequently very slow. But they are also the grandest, most unsentimental, most purposeful versions ... |
 | Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas / Daniel Barenboim [Read More ...]
Review: The Hammerklavier:There is one reason to buy this cycle and that is the Hammerklavier. I rate Barenboim's performance of this sonata, the Op 106, as one of the major achievements in the history of piano playing. Especially the third movement, the adagio, is performed in such a ma... |
 | Mozart:The Complete Piano Sonatas and Variations [Read More ...]
Great pianist:This is a Christmas present so I haven't heard it but it is done by a Master so it should be appreciated. |
 | 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... |
 | Mozart: The Complete Piano Concertos [Read More ...]
A little behind Perahia and Ashkenazy:Danny B. is good, especially on the big ones like the 25 and 26. He isn't as poetic as Murray or as flashy as Vlad but steady never-the-less.
The ECO shows some slack playing at times which belies their consistency for Perahia and Ashkenazy. |
 | 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... |
 | Mozart: The Piano Concertos [Read More ...]
Review: Highly Recommended.:I am glad to see that this set is popular with Amazon reviewers, since it has been overlooked and underrated over the years. Perahia seems to get all the critical attention.
There seems to be a consensus that since Ashkenazy recorded so much, his work could... |
 | Beethoven: Piano Sonatas [Read More ...]
Review: Elegant & Sophistcated Beethoven:
Being used to heavy weight renditions of Beethoven Sonatas by Russian masters like Richter, Gilels, Vedernikov, Neuhaus, at first listening I had an impression that Barenboim's Beethoven is a little too light-weight, especially earlier sonata... |
 | Plácido Domingo - Verdi ~ The Tenor Arias [Read More ...]
Description: There is only one word for this four-CD set: glorious. Released to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Verdi's death, it presents arias from every one of his 28 operas, a comprehensive overview of his work. It is also a tribute to Placido Domingo, one of his foremost present-da... |
 | Beethoven: Piano Trios; Violin & Cello Sonatas [Read More ...]
Description: In the main, the youthful Beethoven chamber music collaborations between Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zuckerman, and the late Jacqueline du Pré are characterized by broad, liberally fluctuating tempos, ripeness of tone, and a tendency to place expression ahead of stylistic consider... |
 | Chopin: Complete Edition [Read More ...]
Description: On the 150th anniversary of his death, Deutsche Grammophon released this impressive box set featuring the complete works of Frédéric Chopin. Spread out over 17 CDs, it contains some truly big-name artists--Argerich, Pollini, Barenboim, and Ashkenazy--and a few you've probably n... |
 | Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies - Barenboim / Berliner Staatskapelle [Read More ...]
Description: Beethoven has been a dominating presence in Daniel Barenboim's musical life, from his early years as a piano prodigy to his long-held international podium career. He recorded the piano sonatas twice and the concertos three times--as soloist with Otto Klemperer, as conductor accom... |
 | Guitar Concertos [Read More ...]
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 | Wagner: Lohengrin / Seiffert, Maggie, Polaski, Struckmann, Pape, Trekel, Barenboim [Read More ...]
Description: Lohengrin has a reputation as Wagner's most accessible, grandly romantic opera. It is arguably his saddest as well, reflecting an irreconcilable conflict between the utopian and the actual. Daniel Barenboim once again proves himself among the most astute of today's Wagnerians by ... |
 | Mozart: Piano Sonatas [Read More ...]
Description: On the evidence of this 1985 collection, Daniel Barenboim sees Mozart's piano sonatas as works for the concert hall rather than the drawing room, and he treats them, in many cases, merely as opportunities for pianistic sport. To be sure, the virtuosic passages are very athletical... |
![]() | Centenary Edition - 100 Years of Great Music [Read More ...]
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 | Isaac Stern: A Life in Music, Vol. 1 (Box Set) [Read More ...]
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 | A Life in Music, Box 4 [Box Set] [Read More ...]
Review: Satisfactory all the way:Isaac Stern is, arguably, the best interpreter of classical music there is. His fleshy vibrato and excellent phrasing incorporates his feeling into this set. The Brahms is superb as Stern expresses love, grief, confusion, depression, and eventually redemp... |
 | Beethoven: Missa solemnis; Choral Fantasia [Read More ...]
Review: The Best on the Market:Klemperer's recording of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis is indeed a classic one - and right so. His soloists may not be as good as Karajan's (Wunderlich, Janowitz etc), but they are doing a honorable job. What is more important is his excellent choir (in 1964 ... |
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