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W.A. MOZART / BEETHOVEN
String Quartets (rec 1956) Amadeus Quartet [ Medici Masters / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "it is striking that the relatively early performances show the Amadeus achieving a combination of focused intensity, delicacy and intellectual power that may surprise those who know them only from their later appearances" Stephen Johnson |
SCARLATT / SCHUMANN / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / RAVEL / CHOPIN / FALLA / etc
Clara Haskil: Philips Recordings 1951-1960 Clara Haskil (piano) / Wiener Symphoniker / Hague Philharmonic Orchestra / Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux / etc [ Philips Original Masters / 7 CD - released 19/Sep/2006 ] Romanian pianist Clara Haskil was born in Bucharest on 7 January 1895. As a student at the Paris Conservatoire she was awarded a premier prix in 1909 and a year later she started her concert career. She worked with many of the greatest names of the... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No 6 / Violin Concerto (Rec 1955/60) David Oistrakh (violin) / Stockholm Festival Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / Paul Kletzki [ Medici Masters / CD - released 18/Nov/2007 ] "Another fine entrant in this increasingly useful series, this Tchaikovsky release is a testament to Kletzki's under-sung symphonic eloquence and adds the absorbing Oistrakh performance." (MusicWeb Dec 2007) |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.74 Pathetique (rec 1955) (with works by Mozart & Weber) Kalner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Erich Kleiber [ Medici Masters / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "...an account of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony..it's amazing, it's devastating...it's preceded by Weber's Euryanthe Overture, exploding like a rocket, amd Mozart's Symphony No.33, in which Kleiber sets a standard for his son Carlos to match." (BBC... |
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No.5 in C minor / Symphony No.6 in F major, Pastoral (recorded 1956) Kolner Rudnfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Erich Kleiber [ Medici Masters / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "The Fifth is fiery and lucid...Nothing is taken for granted, and that freshness is even more apparent in the Sixth, which moves briskly, but with extraordinarily sweet-toned strings...one might think this was a performance given recently by a major... |
MENDELSSOHN
Symphonies Nos 3 & 5 (recorded 1957 & 1960) Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Dmitri Mitropoulos [ Medici Masters / CD - released 26/Oct/2007 ] "In all these pieces Mitropoulos is skilled in balancing the structural aspects of the music with its dramatic, expressive side. All provide further evidence, if any were needed, of this great conductor's total absorption in music-making, and fully... |
W.A. MOZART
Symphony No 39 / Oboe Concerto / German Dances / etc (recorded 1955/56) Lothar Faber (oboe) / Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Erich Kleiber [ Medici Masters / CD - released 20/Oct/2007 ] Erich Kleiber (1890-1956) was born in Vienna and studied at the Prague Conservatory. His first major appointment was General Music Director at the Berlin State Opera in 1923 where he remained until 1934. |
PROKOFIEV / SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor / Concerto for Piano, String Orchestra and Trumpet No.1 in C (rec 1955/56) Shura Cherkassky (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Herbert Menges [ Medici Masters / CD - released 24/Oct/2007 ] Shura Cherkassky (1909-1995) was a pupil of the legendary pianist Josef Hofman at the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia. Cherkassky was considered to be one of the greatest romantic virtuosos of the 20th Century and apart from the playing the major... |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat major, Op.73 Emperor / Piano Sonata No.21 in C major Op.53 Waldstein (Rec 1956-1959) Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) / Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Georg Solti [ Medici Masters / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] Backhaus was probably a finer pianist live than in the confines of the studio as his style became much freer and less analytical. The superb live concert performance of Beethoven's "Waldstein" Sonata from the Beethovenhalle in Bonn in 1959 supports... |
