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HENRI VIEUXTEMPS
Veuxtemps: Violin Concertos Nos 4 & 5 Itzhak Perlman (violin) / Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim [ Itzhak Perlman complete Warner Recordings / CD - released 5/Nov/2015 ] An intrepid violin virtuoso, Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881) was praised for his compositional flair by Hector Berlioz and numbered Eugène Ysaÿe among his pupils. Perlman plays the most popular of his seven violin concertos, No.5, and the ambitious... |
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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... |
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FRANZ ANTON HOFFMEISTER / LEOPOLD MOZART / FRIEDRICH WITT
The Golden Age of the Horn - Concertos for 2 Horns Jacek Muzyk (horn primo), Daniel Kerdelewicz (horn secondo), Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Ivor Gurney was a poet as well as a composer and was accomplished in a number of musical genres including song. With his intuitive approach to poetry he selected texts widely, from contemporaries to ballads, Elizabethan and Jacobean poets, and even... |
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JOSEF HAYDN / LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Haydn / Boccherini: Cello Concertos Jacqueline du Pre (cello) / English Chamber Orchestra / London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 20/Apr/2016 ] "These Jacqueline du Pré performances have been classics for decades and now sound better than ever in their latest remastering." (MusicWeb) |
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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. |
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ELGAR / DVORAK / BACH / HAYDN / FRANCK / SCHUMANN / etc
Jacqueline du Pré: The Heart of the Cello Jacqueline du Pré (cello) with Osian Ellis (harp) Daniel Barenboim (piano & conductor) Gerald Moore (piano) Pinchas Zukerman(violin) [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Oct/2017 ] "She clearly was born to play the cello," wrote the New York Times of Jacqueline Du Pré in 1967. Just five years later her career was cut tragically short by illness. Du Pré's recordings provide a treasurable memento of the "perfect balance of youth... |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Cello Concerto / Waldesruhe (Silent woods) Jacqueline du Pre (cello) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 15/Oct/2017 ] "Impressively remastered, spectacular in its realism, with well-defined detail, superb warmth and body, and fine perspective." |
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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. |
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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. |
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CHOPIN / SAINT-SAENS
Cello Sonatas Jamie Walton (cello) & Daniel Grimwood (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 13/Jun/2011 ] "Jamie Walton's mature cello timbre and perceptiveness in matters of interpretation are winningly applied to this coupling of two 19th-century sonatas..Finely honed stylistic judgment here goes hand in hand with re-creative panache." (Daily Telegraph) |
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BRITTEN / SHOSTAKOVICH / PROKOFIEV
Cello Sonatas Jamie Walton (cello) Daniel Grimwood (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] "Both players are technically flawless, play with the utmost musical intelligence and sensitivity, and are totally at one in all three works." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb July 2012) |
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SAINT-SAENS
Cello Works (including the concertos and sonata No 1) Jamie Walton (cello) / Daniel Grimwood (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Alex Briger (conductor) [ Quartz Music / CD - released 15/Feb/2006 ] This wonderful new album from the rising star of the cello world is both a showcase for Jamie Walton's extraordinary talent and, at the same time, a demonstration of the breadth and beauty of Saint-Saens' writing for this instrument. |
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WAGNER
Tannhauser (complete opera) Rene Pape, Peter Seiffert, Thomas Hampson, Jane Eaglen / Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics The Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2016 ] Recording of the Month - Gramophone Magazine (May 2002) |
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XAVIER BENGUEREL
Concertante / Music for Percussion and Strings / Concert de tardor / Porta Ferrada Double Concerto Jaume Torrent (guitar) / Philippe Spiesser (percussion) / Manon Philippe (violin) / Mélodie Giot (cello) / O. Perpignan Méditerranée / Daniel Tosi [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] Born in Spain and raised in Chile, Xavier Benguerel plays an important part in his native country's musical life, his compositions influenced by the work of Bartók, Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School. The concerto form has long fascinated the... |
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PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY / SAMUEL BARBER
Tchaikovsky / Barber: Violin Concertos Johan Dalene (violin) / Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Blendulf [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jan/2020 ] "The Barber really suits Dalene… it is testament to a maturity way beyond his years that he comes close to breaking your heart with it" Gramophone Editor's Choice Feb 2020 |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
An English Sett for Trumpet Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Daniel-Ben Pienaar [ Linn / CD - released 22/Jun/2018 ] Trumpeter Jonathan Freeman-Attwood and pianist Daniel-Ben Pienaar continue their 'ear-ticklingly imaginative' series of musical reinventions with a celebration of the golden era of English music. Featuring heavyweights of the 16th and 17th centuries,... |
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J. S. BACH
A Bach Notebook for Trumpet Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet) Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano) [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Jan/2013 ] Jonathan Freeman-Attwood's 'A Bach Notebook for Trumpet' is a celebration of the music of the famous Johann Sebastian and ten other lesser-known Bachs, re-imagined for the combination of trumpet and piano. |
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STRAVINSKY / LEIGH / FAURE / MARTINU / RESPIGHI / STENNHAMMAR
The Neoclassical Trumpet Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet), Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano) [ Linn / CD - released 1/Mar/2015 ] "Freeman-Attwood's clean, well-behaved trumpet sound embraces a dizzying palette of colours; the wrong-note buffoonery of the Vivo finds him cultivating a well-rounded rasp; in the finale, a bel canto tone is luminous and generous." (Gramophone) |
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FRANK MARTIN
Golgotha (complete oratorio) Judith Gauthier (sop) Marianne Beate Kielland (alto) Adrian Thomson (ten) / Cappella Amsterdam / Estonian National Symphony Orchestra / Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] "Reuss maintains a tight grip on the unfolding drama...there is such an obvious intensity and love of this extraordinary piece that it never feels as though it is dragging...A revelatory recording." Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Choral |
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BRAHMS
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 / Double Concerto for Violin & Cello in A minor, Op. 102 Julia Fischer (violin) & Daniel Muller-Schott (cello) / Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam / Yakov Kreizberg [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 1/May/2007 ] "A winning Brahms Double, violinist and cellist playing with warmth." RECORDING OF THE MONTH Gramophone Magazine August 2007 |