As a tourist, Camille Saint-Saëns felt compelled to climb every mountain and ford every stream. As a composer, however, Saint-Saëns felt perfectly comfortable staying at home with the most conservative of late nineteenth century composers. Indeed, in his piano concertos, Saint-Saëns sounds less like a late nineteenth century composer than like a ...
At the time, André Previn's 1967 recording of William Walton's Symphony No. 1 in B flat major with the London Symphony Orchestra on RCA was an enormous revelation for American audiences. Prior to that, the Symphony was the exclusive province of English conductors and while none of them could tame its furious anger, assuage its bottomless sadness, ...
August 2002 witnessed a celebrity marriage not forecast in the crystal ball of any tabloid columnist; that of youthful, 40-ish violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter to 72-year-old pianist/conductor/composer André Previn. While their union may have set gossips' tongues to wag, in purely musical terms it is a winning combination for the most part. The Violin ...
In the pantheon of complete recordings of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, André Previn's recording with the London Symphony Orchestra is one of the earliest and one of the best. At the time, Previn was at the first peak of his career as a conductor. After years as a composer for Hollywood and as a jazz piano player, Previn had made the leap to ...
Many connoisseurs will fondly recall the admirable recordings of Tchaikovsky's ballets that André Previn made in the 1970s for EMI, and be glad to see that his version of Swan Lake with the London Symphony Orchestra is available as a double-disc package in the Classics for Pleasure series. As with Previn's renditions of Sleeping Beauty and the ...
Kyung-Wha Chung was 22 years old when she recorded these two heavyweight concerti in Kingsway Hall with the London Symphony under André Previn. It was Chung's debut recording session, held in the wake of her unexpected success in London as a last-minute replacement for Itzhak Perlman. Although the orchestra was not impressed that it was being ...
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