ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 / Manfred & Genoveva Overtures Wiener Philharmoniker [Viennna Philhamonic], Zubin Mehta [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 13/Jan/2003 ] Zubin Mehta has had a long association with the Vienna Philharmonic, conducting them for his first ever recording for Decca (Bruckner's Ninth Symphony - Decca Eloquence 461 3572) and returning often to conduct them both in their home city and on... |
BARTOK / STRAVINSKY / SAINT-SAENS / TCHAIKOVSKY / KODALY / etc
Virtuoso Violin Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin) & Albert Hirsh (piano) / Tibor Bisztriczky (violin) & Felix Schröder (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] A violinist who straddled the divide between the old ways and the new was the Viennese virtuoso Wolfgang Eduard Schneiderhan. He was born on 28 May 1915 and beginning violin lessons at five, he polished his technique under Sevcík and Winkler. From... |
WAGNER / LISZT
Wagner Transcriptions Zoltan Kocsis (piano) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] "Kocsis's performance [of the "Feierlicher Marsch" from Parsifal] is excellent. The digital recording is at once lifelike and unobtrusive." (Gramophone) |