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SCHUMANN
Chamber Music [5 CD set] Ilya Gringolts (violin), Gringolts Quartet, with Peter Laul (piano) and Dmitry Kouzov (cello) [ Onyx / 5 CD Box Set - released 17/Mar/2013 ] Ilya Gringolts won the 1998 Premio Paganini international violin competition, in fact he won two prizes for the youngest ever competitor, and for the best Paganini Caprices interpretation. This 5CD box represents both great value for money and music... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Six Suites For Solo Cello Inbal Megiddo (cello) [ Atoll Records / CD - released 16/Mar/2018 ] While much of Bach's music is deeply associated with the church, for six years Bach served as Kapellmeister at the little Calvinist court at Cothen, where sacred music did not hold much importance. Bach was in a unique position, having the resources... |
DVORAK
Complete Piano Works Inna Poroshina (piano) [ Brilliant Classics Piano Library / 5 CD Box Set - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Gramophone Magazine Re-issue of the Month - March 2011 |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorák: Complete Piano Music Inna Poroshina (piano) [ Brilliant Classics Quintessence / 5 CD Box Set - released 22/Jan/2021 ] Gramophone Magazine Re-issue of the Month - March 2011 |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Elektra (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Irene Theorin, Waltraud Meier, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Robert Gambill, René Pape / Wiener Philharmoniker / Daniele Gatti [ Arthaus Musik Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 23/Jun/2011 ] "Among Elektras on DVD this, along with Karl Böhm's historical performance, must rank among the best; and on Blu-ray it is superb." BBC Music Magazine, October 2011 ***** (Award Finalist 2012) |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, (J.S.): Violin Concertos / Sinfonias / Overture / Sonatas Isabelle Faust (violin) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2019 ] "Faust's tone is both lean and exquisitely sweet, combined with consistent stylistic elegance which reaches the heights of eloquence in the slow movement of the E major Concerto." BBC Music Concerto Choice June 2019 |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Les Trois Sonates, The Late Debussy Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Javier Perianes (piano), etc [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Oct/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2019 - Chamber |
C.P.E. BACH
Chamber Music for Clarinet Italian Classical Consort, Luigi Magistrelli (clarinet/director) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Jun/2016 ] The Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the most famous and influential son of the great Johann Sebastian, was one of the first composers to give a prominent role to the clarinet as solo and chamber music instrument. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) [ Warner Classics Vinyl / 3 LP - released 22/Jan/2021 ] Itzhak Perlman, the supreme violinist of his time, performs the supreme works for unaccompanied violin. In preparing the Bach 'Sonatas and Partitas', Perlman sought authenticity through the score itself, not through musicological research. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky [ Warner Classics / LP - released 24/Mar/2023 ] The distinctive character of each of Prokofiev's Violin Concertos seems rooted in its genesis: the first, nervy and iconoclastic, coincided with the Russian Revolution; the second, more sober and expansively lyrical, dates from 1935, when Prokofiev... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics / LP - released 29/Aug/2025 ] This recording of Brahms' Double Concerto with Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma, with Daniel Barenboim conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, was originally released in 1997, captured from a live recording at Orchestra Hall in Chicago in 1996. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / MAX BRUCH
Mendelssohn / Bruch: Violin Concertos (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) / Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard haitink [ Warner Classics / LP - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Itzhak Perlman, born in 1945, is the supreme violinist of his time. More than a decade after his first recording of the Mendelssohn and Bruch concertos (with André Previn), Perlman returned to them with Bernard Haitink and the Concertgebouw Orchestra |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rodney Friend [ Warner Classics / LP - released 22/May/2020 ] Itzhak Perlman is the supreme violinist of his time, adored by audiences around the world and a musician whose powerful but sympathetic artistic personality provides a model for the players who have followed him. |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto / Serenade Melancolique (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) / The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ornandy [ Warner Classics / LP - released 22/May/2020 ] In Perlman's words, Tchaikovsky "wears his heart on his sleeve" and his violin concerto is a work of "unabashed Romanticism". While bringing sensitivity and substance to his interpretation, Perlman never slips into sentimentality, and he leads an... |
LUGWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Triple Concerto / Choral Fantasia (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Daniel Barenboim (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics / CD - released 21/Jun/2024 ] "They perform with the most tender expression in the slow movement, and there are fireworks from all three in the last movement" James Longstaffe "That Perlman and Barenboim have made distinguished-nay, superlative!-recordings of the Beethoven... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / FREDERICK DELIUS
Saint-Saens/Delius: Cello Concertos Jacqueline du Pré (cello), The Philadelphia Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent [ Warner Classics / LP - released 24/Jan/2025 ] In this important live recording, Jacqueline Du Pré's rendition of Camille Saint-Saëns' famous 1st Cello Concerto is made all the more sentimental with her husband Daniel Barenboim conducting The Philadelphia Orchestra behind her. |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Orchestral Works, Cello Concerto, Sea Pictures, Dream of Gerontius Jacqueline du Pre (cello) Dame Janet Baker (mezzo) Richard Lewis (tenor) / Halle Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli [ EMI British Composers / 7 CD Box Set - released 25/Mar/2022 ] Born in London of Italian-French parents, Sir John Barbirolli (1899-1970) trained as a cellist and played in theatre and café orchestras before joining the Queen's Hall Orchestra under Sir Henry Wood in 1916. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 (LP) Jacqueline du Pre (cello) Daniel Barenboim (piano) [ Warner Classics / LP - released 20/May/2022 ] Renowned as a great interpreter of Brahms, Jacqueline du Pré, here at the peak of her art and technical abilities, delivers the latest version recorded with her husband Daniel Barenboim in May-August 1968. |
EDWARD ELGAR / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Elgar: Cello Concerto / Beethoven: The Ghost... Jacqueline du Pre in Portrait Jacqueline du Pre (cello) / Daniel Barenboim / Pinchas Zukerman / Sir John Barbirolli / Philharmonia Orchestra [ Opus Arte / BBC DVD / DVD - released 1/Sep/2004 ] Jacqueline du Pré's extraordinary career was cut cruelly short by illness in 1973 when she was only 28 years old. When she died 14 years later, she remained as vibrant a figure in the public mind as she had been at the pinnacle of her career. |
BOCCHERINI / DVORAK / ELGAR / HAYDN / MONN / etc
Jacqueline Du Pre - The Great Cello Concertos Jacqueline Du Pre (cello) / English Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, New Philhamonia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra [ Warner Classics SACD / 4 Hybrid SACD - released 4/Apr/2025 ] Du Pré was born in Oxford, England, the second child of Iris Greep and Derek du Pré. Derek was born in Jersey, where his family had lived for generations. After working as an accountant at Lloyds Bank in St Helier and London, he became assistant... |
