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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Great Performances from International Archives Michael Rabin (violin) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Eugene Goossens [ Medici Arts / CD - released 12/Apr/2008 ] The American Michael Rabin (1936-1972) was one of the greatest virtuoso violinists in the post-War period, but his career was tragically short. He died aged 36 years after falling in his apartment. |
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W.A. MOZART
Symphony No 29 / Violin Concertos Nos 2 & 3 Midori Seiler (violin) / Anima Eterna Orchestra / Jos van Immerseel [ Zig Zag Territories / CD - released 24/Jul/2006 ] ‘Midori Seiler is a violinist of a poetic temperament, who combines grace and delicacy and has a perfect rapport with the orchestra’ |
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KHACHATURIAN
Violin Concerto / Concerto-Rhapsody Mihaela Martin (Violin) / National Symphony Orchestra Of Ukraine / Theodore Kuchar [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Nov/2007 ] "Well-trained musicians from the Ukraine's National Symphony and heartfelt playing from the Romanian-born violinist Mihaela Martin." -- Music Week, January 24, 2004 |
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ALLA PAVLOVA
Symphony No. 6 / Thumbelina Suite Mikhail Shestakov (violin) / Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra / Patrick Baton [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] The highly romantic music of Alla Pavlova, a Russian composer now resident in the USA, has been praised for its 'surreal serenity…woven with unflinching sadness, without concessions to short attention spans and all within the long émigré tradition of... |
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BEETHOVEN / MENDELSSOHN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto & No. 4 Mendelssohn: Double Concerto Min-Jung Kym (piano), Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, Clemens Schuldt (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] Pianist Min-Jung Kym makes her recording debut on Signum Records, leading the Philharmonia Orchestra under conductor Clemens Schuldt in performances of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, and alongside Zsolt-Tihamer Visontay for Mendelssohn's Double... |
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 / Violin Concerto / Suite No. 3 in G major / etc Mischa Elman (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Sir Adrian Boult [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] This new collection invaluably gathers up all the Tchaikovsky recordings Adrian Boult made for Decca between 1952 and 1956. |
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BRUCH / WIENIAWSKI / LALO / SAINT-SAENS
Violin Concertos / Cello Concertos (recorded 1953 & 1956) Mischa Elman (violin) Zara Nelsova (cello) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult [ Brilliant Classics Retrospective / 2 CD - released 8/Jun/2008 ] Mono recordings |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Masterworks [Symphonies, Concertos, Slavonic Dances] Mischa Maisky (cello), Igor Ardašev (piano), Ivan Zenaty (violin) Prague Symphony Orchestra, Petr Altrichter, Jiří Bělohlávek, Libor Pešek [ Arthaus Musik DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 16/Feb/2011 ] Live recordings from the Alte Oper Frankfurt, 1993 The works of the quintessentially Czech composer Antonín Dvorák are, above all, enjoyable and perennial favourites of the Romantic repertoire. The concerts are performed by the Prague Symphony... |
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HENRI VIEUXTEMPS
Vieuxtemps: Violin Concertos Nos. 2 And 3 Misha Keylin (Violin) / Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra / Dennis Burkh [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1997 ] "..the orchestral playing, somewhat leonine in timbre, is excellent. So too is the recording, made in the Janáček Concert Hall, Ostrava." Penguin Guide |
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VIEUXTEMPS
Violin Concertos Nos. 2 And 3 Misha Keylin (Violin) / Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra / Dennis Burkh [ Naxos Romantic Violin Concertos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "The Russian virtuoso, Misha Keylin has [the Concertos'] full measure and he has the kind of Slavonic flair that brings these tuneful, well-crafted concertos fully to life." - GRAMOPHONE |
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VIEUXTEMPS
Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 Misha Keylin (Violin) / Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, Dennis Burkh / Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa [ Naxos Romantic Violin Concertos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "Naxos's engineers place Keylin' far enough forward that listeners won't miss a single one of his brilliant gestures." (Fanfare) |
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VIEUXTEMPS
Fantasia appassionata / Ballade and Polonaise / Fantaisie-Caprice / Greeting to America Misha Keylin (violin) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Mogrelia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "The recorded sound (from 2008 except for the Ballade from 2002) sets the violin in a respectable balance with the orchestra. Recommended, accordingly, to all types of listeners." (Fanfare Nov 2010) |
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MAX BRUCH
Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) / London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] As part of a tribute to Lydia Mordkovitch, this re-issue features Bruch's Violin Concertos Nos 2 and 3 performed by Lydia Mordkovitch with Richard Hickox and the London Symphony Orchestra. Both were recorded in 1998 in Blackheath Halls in London. |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Suite from 'Alone' David Oistrakh (violin) / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra [ Alto Records / CD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] (Op.126) "taken as a whole, this is a most rewarding work and gets a most eloquence performance from Oistrakh who plays with his familiar virtuosity and sweetness of tone." Gramophone |
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PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 1-6, Manfred Symphony, Overtures, Rococo variations Maxim Vengerov (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2017 ] "Rostropovich goes again for a broad, epic view, which provides some interesting alternative approaches to this music, including the slowest version of the Finale which I have heard. Instead of trying to barrel through the movement with sheer... |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Cello Concertos Natalie Clein (cello) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze, with Antje Weithaas (violin) [ Hyperion The Romantic Cello Concerto, Vol. 5 / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Natalie Clein adds a remarkable collection of Saint-Saëns' music for cello and orchestra to her impressive discography. Clein first came to prominence when she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year award in 1994; it is appropriate that she performs... |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto / Encores (recorded 1949-53) Nathan Milstein (violin) / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 31/Aug/2007 ] "The three violin and piano works with Artur Balsam are played with Milstein's usual finesse and bravura, and the disc concludes with two tracks in which Milstein duets with the Italian bass Ezio Pinza in Calm as the night and None but the lonely... |
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DVORAK / MOZART / GLAZUNOV
Dvorak/Mozart/Glazunov: Violin Concertos (recorded 1949-51) Nathan Milstein, violin / Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra / Antal Dorati, conductor / RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra / William Steinberg, conductor [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 30/Oct/2003 ] Before the disruption of World War I, the regular pattern of Caruso's existence had been to spend the autumn and winter in New York singing in ten or a dozen operas at the Met, and then to cross the Atlantic to work in Europe through the spring and... |
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MARTINU
Violin Concerto No. 2 / Symphony No. 1 Lorenzo Gatto (violin) / National Orchestra of Belgium, Walter Weller [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "Weller has a natural feel of the swaying gait of Martinu's individual rhythmic language and his conducting, allied to fine orchestral playing and exceptionally good sound, certainly makes an impact." (Gramophone) |